Creating a watercolor material in Eevee

[@formarjoram]

"so let's change the world first"

[@mkarts-g5l]

Best tutorial ever I've finally found my art style in blender. Usually I like painting watercolor images and I was wondering how I could relate it to the 3d art world. So thanks again

[@daishin8492]

this guy a hero for providing the blend file for free.

[@coleorloff]

This is an incredible tutorial. Simple, clear, easy to follow. Thanks!

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks for watching!

[@eugene-d]

This is the fine art of nodes.

[@devinramsden5412]

this is dope, I tried and failed making something like this a while back

[@neail5466]

Great result. The lighting is crucial

[@emptywasher2788]

This just got me to subscribe! I've seen a lot of blender water color tutorials but they all seem to go for the loose-splashy/bleeding water color look. This looks completely controlled but still has that feeling of water colors! Fantastic stuff!

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks!

[@manubarrera8298]

thanks Diego, the splash of blender 4.0 is so.

[@oliver_36]

You really nailed the watercolor look. Thanks for sharing. The blue watercolor effect in the end is really cool. I can't believe it was made in Blender. :)

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks for the comment :D

[@aimenzaied]

here, you dropped this 👑

[@HerrBusack]

Stunning Effect! Also, very profound use of the shader nodes. Thanks a lot for sharing! I have to share this tutorial with my artist friends :-)

[@ZacharyAghaizu]

This is beautiful! Would be nice to see a tutorial on the end sequence too

[@robinbaxter2825]

Just getting myself started in the world of blender npr creation and it's so fascinating! beautiful work my jaw dropped at the end result

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks!

[@swathikumar980]

This is extremely nice. Thank you for sharing.

[@AmanKumar-tu2og]

This was beautiful Diego!! Thanks a lot!

[@jurgenvantomme]

beautiful work! I always was wondering if this effect was possible in Blender and now I know, thank you.

[@aiden_obj]

This shader is beautiful, thanks so much for sharing!

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks!

[@cgmoe8441]

i really like how this looks, awesome work!

[@taikimitsuishi6274]

OMG!! beautiful work!! I wanted to know this technique when I was working on Anime project several years ago!! thanks for sharing this amazing video!!

This looks beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing the tutorial. Amazing skills.

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks!

[@brandonlyon3530]

Wow this is pretty awesome, thanks for sharing

[@louismatter5370]

wow amazing work

[@kinuskiki]

Thank you so much! Beautiful work!

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks!

[@Knockheart]

It's absolutely amazing! Thank you!

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks for watching!

[@gabrielecannilla8969]

I love this effect, thanks! Have you tried adding a (very thin) outline with the solidify modifier and flipped normals trick? I did and it looks amazing! Also I have added a couple of hue/sat nodes after the colour ramps to shift the hue and control the colours easily (and with a group input node I can access this property from the materials tab). Thanks again for the tutorial!

[@SinestesiaCo]

Nice, Didn't think about the solidify modifier trick, post some pics! :)

[@diegopadovani4942]

@@tomschannel27 I think you can do it following a tutorial here on youtube called "Daily Blender Secrets - Toon Outline with Inverted Hull (updated)"

[@ReidvinK]

add outlines BUT in white! it looks so cool

[@chiranthanaanand7584]

This is beautiful. Thank you!

[@A_New_Wavy]

Just what i was looking for thanks

[@done.8373]

My god this is beautiful work, and extensible!!!!! Thank you, what a great way to start my day. Subbed for sure.

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks!

[@sleepygallows]

I've been looking for painterly shades for months! How did I find this so late 😂 Thank you for the great tutorial!

[@timlongoria681]

Awesome results

[@claudiak5269]

Thank you so much for this beautiful tutorial! amazing

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks!

[@olgwoodart4996]

Thank you for sharing. Beautiful material.

[@levimagony]

Wow, this amazing, you are a genius.

[@benjaminjohnston6595]

This is a great look! Thanks for sharing.

[@KUBE.archvis]

Beautiful! Thanks!

[@jimmcneill]

Great tutorial--thanks so much for making it!

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks!

[@tonal.states]

Really nice! Thanks! You should do a tutorial on that last blue watercolor waving effect you used, looks sick!

[@SinestesiaCo]

Good idea, it might help me get back on the youtube train!

[@raofriot]

This is next level, hope you make more content like this!!

[@FluideTotallyGlacial]

Incredible tutorial, thanks !

[@talgatospanov7283]

Wow that looks amazing! Thank you for the amazing tutorial :)

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks for watching!

[@talgatospanov7283]

@@SinestesiaCo I want to try this material in animation, wonder how good it would look

[@SinestesiaCo]

@@talgatospanov7283 I rendered a small fly-through intro I didn't use in the end. I think it looks pretty cool animated, the flowy paint (3:18) could be distracting but you can control or not use it. Mixing it with grease pencil could also be interesting

[@HerrBusack]

@@SinestesiaCo ooooh! very interesting.

[@liliyaya2274]

Wow, super cool! Thank you!

[@npbasim]

This is so cool! Thanks a lot for sharing!

[@neverpure20]

This is exactly whay I was looking for Thank you

[@SinestesiaCo]

Glad you liked it!

[@neverpure20]

@@SinestesiaCo Can you make a material with pastel color as well? kinda like this? www.deviantart.com/tails-155/art/Moonrise-836351881

[@mastjappa]

Awesome technique!

[@radoman1234]

Great stuff. Thanks for share

[@3dwithshubham]

Cool Work

[@victoro1081]

Really excellent job!

[@xander7750]

This is amazing! and really nicely explained, thank you so much!

[@mutle]

This is magical! Thank you!

[@TheGrrson]

Wow. I should learn Blender now.

[@SinestesiaCo]

Always a good time to learn Blender!

[@dariapimenova1949]

You should stop using the magic outside of Hogwarts

[@spbcore3913]

Great! Thanks for this.

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks!

[@pixelstresd2971]

*Oh my God!* Oh thankyou very much tutorial!

[@alexvith]

900 IQ Badge for you my man

[@SinestesiaCo]

:D

[@HermannPh]

Hi, do you have the link of the paper you used ? Can't find it anywhere and I love how it turns for you :D thanks for sharing tho

[@albertcallejoamat7837]

What about objects with texture?

[@bridgetkurr1776]

Amazing! Do you know how to do this with the shader graph in Unity? I am just starting to look at shader graphs so a total beginner and I am lost!

[@SinestesiaCo]

Hi, thanks! I originally took inspiration from a Unity Shader but there's a bunch of them now. Check this out: forum.unity.com/threads/watercolour-shadow-shader-effect.379102/

[@kte-5716]

great stuff, subscribed

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks!

[@Puddindaosha]

omg awessommmee !!!! thanks for sharing ♡♡♡♡♡♡

[@timarlow8007]

Is it possible to bake this out as an albedo / base color map?

[@mudzen]

Fantastic

[@sndosc]

Really cool, cheers!

[@pm1234]

Thank you! subscribed!

[@demetrisktorides]

Hey! thanks for a great tutorial! I am trying to achieve an extra layer of watercolour realism and I wonder if you could help because I am stuck. I have scenes with multiple objects, all of which have watercolour shaders. I would like for the object colour to blend with another object's colour when one is in front of the other (real-time). In a similar way that an artist paints something red, and makes another pass with blue and the area onto which both red and blue have been painted becomes purple. Do you think it's achievable in Eevee? I have asked this question on blender stack exchange (watercolour shader) with a reference image which I can't post here..

[@SinestesiaCo]

Hey Demetris, I get what you're saying. I haven't tested this, but it _might_ be possible using a refraction or glass BSDF with a shader-to-rgb node. You probably want to use a fresnel/layer weight node as a mask so it's only in the borders. The glass node would allow you to pick up what's around the object so you can then blend it in. It does sound like something that would be easier to do with OpenGL shaders

[@demetrisktorides]

@@SinestesiaCo Hi Diego! thanks for the reply:) I have been trying with glass nodes but it was fruitless - but - haven't adopted the shader to rgb node! thanks so much the guidance. I'll try and see:)

[@robertplishka2448]

@@demetrisktorides Hello! I'm curious whether it worked because I'm facing the same issue as you do? And could you, please, provide how did you solve this? Thank you in advance!

[@robertplishka2448]

I've figured that out just alright. I've included that default grouped PaperTexture into my custom "bubble" shader, which has Transparent and Glass BSDFs in it that are mixed with the RGB node and connected to the Emission node. Just remember to enable the Screen Space Reflections in Render Properties window with Refractiions inside. And the you could play with the sliders to your likening. Switching on the Screen Space Reflections in the Material Properties Settings window is the next most important part. If you happen to find some difficulties with transparency try toggling the Alpha Blend option in the Blend Mode dropbox there. Hope it helped!

[@shanes5671]

Thank you!

[@rustymetaII]

Pure gold, ❤️ it

[@baptm727]

Amazing, thank you very much

[@janspaperheart]

now that's cool af

[@p_enta5012]

someone make an animation using this

[@eddyjuillerat835]

Seems to work well with this specific model. I think mayn parameters need to be adijustet to fit ours. Not so easy.

[@yemount6155]

If I could hit the like button 100 times to give 100 likes I would. Thank you for an amazing tutorial!!

[@김별-f5u]

당신은 천재다!

[@tabithadaniel2655]

This is such a great tutorial and results are amazing!

[@Kyrmana]

Love this!

[@NoraGallegoArt]

el enlace a la textura de papel ya no funciona :(

[@rbettsx]

Made me think a whole new way.. I wish I could understand what you said at 3:45 'make the colours xxx between dark and bright'? BTW, could be wrong.. noise is expensive... why use the Fac output from 3 Noise nodes, instead of the Color output from 1?

[@SinestesiaCo]

Ah sorry, I'm still working on my pronunciation. What I said is to make the colors zig-zag between dark and bright. Using a noise for each axis gives you more flexibility. I think 3D noise isn't that expensive but it depends on your GPU. If you were using UVs as texture coordinates you could also drop to 2D noise. Using a single color output would be a nice optimization though

[@rbettsx]

@@SinestesiaCo Thanks! Got it! Don't worry, and don't for one moment let arrogant English-speakers assume everyone should learn their language and they don't need to learn anyone else's! Thank you for the English you *have* learned. Nice tutorial.

[@odindwarfi4450]

nice style but how to apply this texture over grease pencil strokes?

[@mulanmiller5000]

Great Stuff!

[@marksevastipol1946]

Amazing!!!!

[@snazztacular]

This is fantastic!! :D

[@SOL-t8h]

I think this video is one of the best tutorials I have ever seen. However, there are three things I don't understand because I don't understand English very well and my knowledge of Blender is limited. Can anyone give me some advice? 2:18 Why did he use Fresnel instead of Facing in Layer Weight?　Is Fresnel a more natural and common expression? 2:30 Why did he connect the Noise Textures as a Vector to the Layer Weight?　Is it to change the way the noise looks depending on the angle from which the rose is viewed? 2:30 He has set the XYZ axis in Combine XYZ, but when I changes the scale of each Noise, they seem to expand and contract in the same direction.　If I change the scale of Noise for the X axis, doesn't that mean that the texture moves in the X axis direction?　I learned about Vectors in math, but how should I interpret the Vector this time?　And how is XYZ different from each other?　I seem to have a poor understanding of Vector. Sorry for the long post.

[@SinestesiaCo]

Hi, 1. I can't remember exactly why, but I think it just looked better :) 2. The noise textures distort the normals the layer weight node sees. 3. The vector is going into the normals socket, so it's not the same as plugging into another texture's Vector. Vectors in this context represent points in space. Well actually lots of points, since the node network is run for each point found by the ray tracer. If you want to get a better feel for "cycles math" read up an intro to ray tracers. I'm not sure what you mean by "how is XYZ different from each other"? Cheers!

[@SOL-t8h]

@@SinestesiaCo Thanks for the quick reply! Thanks to you, I understand the general idea. 2. Layer Weight means that the appearance changes with the normals, right? I learned that the appearance changes depending on the direction of the surface, but I didn't learn enough about how the appearance changes depending on the direction of the normals. 3. As you said, I was wrong in my interpretation of Vector and Combine XYZ. The Noise Texture creates a value for each point in space. Connecting three Noise Textures to Combine XYZ is the same as assigning the values of the three patterns to XYZ. Each point has a normal in the coordinate (X,Y,Z) direction, assuming that its position is at the origin (0,0,0). Is this a correct interpretation? Also, I am going to study "Cycles Math" and "Ray Tracer". Thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn. Don't worry about "how is XYZ different from each other?", it's my mistake.

[@omarlunarodriguez4181]

Thanks

[@DerLucinolo]

Could you pls upload the paper texture again? I really need it pls.

[@SinestesiaCo]

Hi, looks like wildtextures.com is having some trouble. I found some similar textures here: www.pexels.com/search/paper%20texture/

[@DerLucinolo]

​@@SinestesiaCoThank you so much, love your tutorial

[@moh.irfanrivaldi4326]

Thanks, subscribed !!

[@SinestesiaCo]

Thanks!

[@devanw6542]

can you bake it?

[@rsunghun]

This is 😍

[@flyingcrepe7742]

Is there any way to bake this material into a texture ?

[@a_blue_chicken1093]

wtf man!!! This is crazy!

[@neilwilson2747]

wow!

[@xiyangyang1974]

This shader is great. And the rose is very appropriate for this shader. Did you create it? Do you have advice on which other objects this shader can look good?

[@clix3952]

Hello it seems like that I can't download the paper texture, I don't know if it's a problem of my pc or connection but can someone please help me? I would love to follow this tutorial in all the steps

[@SinestesiaCo]

Looks like wildtextures is having some redirect issues. Unfortunately I never packed the file because of the licensing restrictions. Don't worry though, any paper texture will do. You could use this one for instance: www.freepik.com/free-photo/gray-texture_997667.htm#query=paper%20texture&position=37&from_view=keyword (or any in the site)

[@clix3952]

@@SinestesiaCo ok thank you so much! Can't wait to try this wonderful tutorial!

[@basiccomponents]

@@SinestesiaCo thanks for linking this! I would suggest replacing the link in the description so it's easier to find :)

[@林俊杰-w2n]

Excuse me, why can I only use eevee to render, and how can I understand what I can only use eevee to render or cycles

[@SinestesiaCo]

Hi, we use the "shader-to-rgb node" in this material to modify the output of one of the shaders. This node isn't available to Cycles because it's a ray tracer. It's a little long to explain all of it here, but google "Ray Tracing" and "Raster Engine" to get an idea. Eevee is closer to what game engines do, while Cycles uses a different method that is slower but more physically accurate.

[@林俊杰-w2n]

@@SinestesiaCo thank you so much!!!!!!!!

[@AlvoTucano]

Diego thanks great work. Can you please tell me how to create this moving watercolor texture at the very end of the video 6:40 ???

[@SinestesiaCo]

Hi Alex, I applied the same material from the rose to a plane. Then I added a few spot lamps and animated their location. I used the noise modifier (in the graph editor), to make them move randomly. The differences between light and dark areas create the moving ink effect

[@AlvoTucano]

@@SinestesiaCo thanks Diego I will try that and credit you in my upcoming animation. Awesome people like you make the animation industry the best. cheers!!

[@vinjass]

One of my favorite shaders ever!!! It's so pretty! I just have one question, it seems any new material like Principled BDSF just makes them completely black and the only way to change it's color is by moving Emision, but other than that it stays black. Same with transparency, I can't seem to get it right, is this because of the lights?

[@SinestesiaCo]

Hi, yeah the idea of the shader is to hack around the lighting system. The lightiing is "calculated" in the material, using emission is just a way to put that on the object without it being affected directly by the lights (an emission of 1 works like a flat shader).

[@vinjass]

@@SinestesiaCo Aah I see! Makes sense! Would it be possible then to put some objects with a different material in the same scene then? Or put a watercolor shader into an object in a different scene, like a character made of watercolor but the rest of the scene is made with realistic materials.

[@lsebastian9086]

I have a small question if it is allright for me to ask: It is possible to add to the material, a custom texture instead of a color for this to work? Im just curious THank you for and sorry for the inconvenience.

[@SinestesiaCo]

Hi Sure. I haven't tried it myself but instead of the coloring colorramps you can use a mix node set to "Color" mode. Just plug the texture in the second socket.

[@vittoriabelli8408]

This tutorial is great thank you. Can you export the shader to c4D? Thank you, V

[@YAMaLove11]

It's a shame that this doesn't work for me. I connected Principled BSDf to Shader to RGB and material became pitch black and nothing helped. Does anyone know what seems to be the problem?

[@YAMaLove11]

I get it. Lighting was too weak. 25W instead of 500W.

[@SinestesiaCo]

Hi, Don't forget to download the paper texture and load it in the world nodes. I couldn't distribute it with the blendfile because of its license

[@daringcuteseal]

Amazing!

[@rayflywang1356]

Hi Diego,Is the final watercolor effect of the film also made by Blender? Can you roughly describe how it is done?

[@SinestesiaCo]

Hi Raymond, yes everything is done in Blender (rendered in Eevee) with no post-processing. I'm guessing by film you mean the paper texture? The paper texture uses the Window coordinates which are a projection of the viewport in 2D, so no matter the object or the world they are always the same. By mixing in that texture with the "paint" part of the shader, you get the illusion that the object is painted on top of the paper and is letting some of that texture show in lighter areas.

[@rayflywang1356]

Thank you Diego,I’m referring to the part of the video from 6:45 to the end