---
name: painterly-style
description: Painterly art direction spanning watercolor and oil-painting looks for Blender using soft edges, pigment texture, and illustrative lighting.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: https://github.com/arjun988
  version: "1.0.0"
  domain: blender
  role: specialist
  triggers: painterly, watercolor, oil painting, impressionist, illustrative paint, gouache
  related-skills: hand-painted-style, stylized-style, materials, compositing, rendering
---

# Painterly Style

Pigment feel. Soft edges. Illustration lighting.

## Sublooks
- Watercolor: paper grain, bleeds, light washes
- Oil: thicker strokes, richer impasto suggestion in texture

## Tenets
1. Soft terminators
2. Pigment/paper overlays in mat or comp
3. Limited harsh specular
4. Composition like a canvas, not a game HUD shot