Conceptual visualization with the Painting, Watercolor, and Sketch effects

Our goal with this topic is to introduce the Painting, Watercolor, and Sketch effects and show a useful application to help you understand how these effects can be combined. By the end of this section, you can achieve something like this, or even better:

To lay the foundation for this visualization, let's start by covering the first effect.

The first layer – the Painting effect

Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that was started with a group of Paris-based artists. Some of the main characteristics of this art movement are the use of small but visible brush strokes, and sometimes, they even create small points using the tip of the brush. The visual impact we get from this painting doesn't come from the fine detail, but instead from the composition, color combination, and visual depth that is created with layers and layers of paint. This brief explanation serves to introduce the Painting effect in Lumion that...