import cv2 img = cv2.imread('demo.jpg') # enter your image here grey_img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) invert = cv2.bitwise_not(grey_img) blur = cv2.GaussianBlur(invert, (21, 21), 0) invertedblur = cv2.bitwise_not(blur) sketch = cv2.divide(grey_img, invertedblur, scale=256.0) cv2.imwrite("sketch.png", sketch)