The Watercolorist - Steve McQueen in the movie "Le Mans"

Source photo: still of Steve McQueen in the movie "Le Mans".

To get the abstracted image, I run "The Cartoonist" with the default parameters. The abstracted image after quantize is called "abstracted_image_after_quantize.png".

Abstracted image after quantize.

Rendered watercolor image.

Looks a bit too washed up. That's coming from when we apply the paper texture. An easy fix is to darken the input image to "The Watercolorist", that is, the abstracted image after quantize.

Darkened abstracted image after quantize.

Rendered watercolor image.