Painterly, sketch & watercolor
Watercolour, sketch, oil paint and other hand-made looks in real time. These guides use filters, textures and custom lighting to make scenes look painted or drawn instead of rendered. They tend to be more experimental and more art-led than other shader topics. 9 hand-picked Unity guides, tutorials, videos and repos, kept current.
- Recreating a painterly shader in Unity URP
Rebuilding a painterly look in URP over a few days using post-process passes.
jettelly.com · Jul 2026 - Mystery Dungeon Sketches in Unity URP
Builds a Mystery Dungeon style sketch look in URP with shadow maps, depth textures, post processing and triplanar mapping.
danielilett.com · Sep 2024 - Mystery Dungeon Sketch Post Process in Unity URP
Builds a Mystery Dungeon style sketch post process in URP using triplanar mapping.
youtube.com · Sep 2024 - Inside Disco Elysium - graphics breakdown
Graphics breakdown of how Disco Elysium achieves its painted look.
youtube.com · Dec 2023 - Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 21 - the painted world
Reverse engineers how The Witcher 3 renders its painted-world look, part 21 of a series.
astralcode.blogspot.com · Dec 2022 - Ultra Effects | Part 10 - Dungeon Drawing
Combines depth, color and normal outlines into a sketched dungeon drawing look.
danielilett.com · Mar 2020 - Scribble Cel
Covers a scribbled cel-shaded look with animated hand-drawn line wobble, with several updates.
simonschreibt.de · May 2013 - Real-Time Watercolor in Tint
Describes how Lykke Studios built a real-time watercolor paint simulation for the mobile game Tint.
medium.com - Hand-drawn Style Breakdown - Album on Imgur
Imgur album breaking down a hand-drawn rendering style.
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