Juan Pablo Fuentes Ruiz shared how he created the scene with Blender.

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Juan Pablo Fuentes Ruiz won the Blender Discord January Challenge with a 3D environment inspired by Japanese sumi-e watercolor technique. The artist created custom shaders mixing Fresnel, geometry, and normals data with textures to achieve painterly aesthetics while maintaining full 3D geometry. The shaders hide silhouettes and apply painted gradients where lighting or face angles change, successfully translating traditional watercolor style into 3D rendering.

Blender 3D Scene Created in the Style of Sumi-e Watercolor