[Emm Brier]

after years of playing round with photoshop filters, then using the akvis sketch plugin or alien skin snap art, i found i get the best results with an app called SketchMee
its cheap & fast and it makes it possible to increase the size of an image from web sized to soemthign printable.
check it out
https://studiomee.com/product_sketchmee_mac_normal.html