We’ll have to make a vector that we can plug into the normal socket of the layer weight that will look more like watercolor. We have to distort this to make it look like paint. Add a layer weight node and lower the blend to about 0.2. Check it out: since the textures in the material and world are in sync we can’t see the model anymore.

And to do this we will be mixing things on top of the paper texture using multiply.īring back the paper node we made before, and plug it into an emission shader. Through the light areas and cover the shadows and edges to suggest the form. We are going to work this the same way we would do a watercolor painting: from light to dark. Let’s add a new one and get rid of the principled shader. Don’t forget to throw some lights around your object so you can see their effect on the material! Watercolor MaterialĪlright, material time. We’ll use this texture again when we make the objects materials so let’s put it a nodegroup. Now we can have one color for the lighting and another for what the Mix the paper texture using the Is Camera Ray output with pure black. We’ll use the old light path trick for this. So we need to disable it for everything except the camera.

Now, we don’t want the paper messing around with our lighting. Finally I’m going to desaturate it a bit and fiddle with the contrast using the curves node. You can also use a mapping node to move it around and reposition it. To get that effect let’s add a texture coordinate node and plug in the window coordinates. We want it to always look the same, so objects look painted on top of it. You can download the paper texture here. So the first step is to add a proper paper background. The trick behind this watercolor material is to make it look like the objects are painted on a piece of paper rather than an object in a 3D space.

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