Simple online tools generate sketches

You know those quaint artist stands in a tourist town, where they’ll sketch your face for five bucks?

The Web has its own version of that — a number of online drawing tools that give you the same result. (Of course anyone who uses Photoshop or Gimp, both very complex editing tools, can get the same result. But the online tools are much simpler and easier to work with.)

One could find two or three such free sketcher tools. One we like is Sketch Generator at http://sporkforge.com/ imaging/sketch.php.

One uploads a jpg image and then chooses whether you want a fine, medium or low resolution sketch. After less than a minute, you can download the resulting line sketch. Voila.