Painterly Converter – Hand-Painted Look for Blender

Painterly Converter turns any model into a hand-painted object in one click. Select a scanned asset, a textured game prop or a model with many materials, pick a look and press Make Painterly: every material becomes thick paint with visible brush strokes, flat paint patches, a warm and cool palette, a gently wobbly hand-made shape and a broken painted outline. It works on any mesh at any scale, in Cycles and EEVEE.

Nothing is destroyed. The addon paints copies of your materials on the object only and adds one modifier for the shape and outline, so the mesh, its original materials and any linked duplicates stay exactly as they were. Revert brings the original back at any time, and Make Permanent bakes the result into a normal mesh when you want to export it.

Image textures are not lost: they are smeared into flat dabs of paint that keep the colors and the design of the original, so a scanned gnome still has its red hat and green coat, now painted with a brush.

Features

• One-click conversion of textured and multi-material models, any number at once
• 9 looks: Classic Oil, Soft Gouache, Thick Impasto, Dry Brush, Watercolor, Sketchbook, Sunset Palette, Clay Sculpt and Storybook
• 6 brush stroke maps: oil, gouache, impasto, dry brush, crosshatch and watercolor
• Full control: stroke size, paint relief, patch count and detail, ragged edges, texture smear, palette colors, hue and value jitter, paint sheen, wobble and outline
• Painted outline with thickness, color, breakup and flat ink
• Surprise Me for a random harmonious look, Copy to Selected to share a look
• Non-destructive: Revert at any time, Make Permanent when you are done
• Editing one object never changes another, even linked duplicates
• Picture-driven sidebar with preview thumbnails for every look and brush
• Glass and transparent materials stay see-through: Keep, Painted Wash, Cutout or Solid Paint
• Works in Cycles and EEVEE

Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.