--- title: How To Create Better NPR Art In Blender: Tips & Techniques description: 3D artist Zha Art shares lessons from six years of creating stylized NPR art in Blender. He focuses on two-point lighting, noting that artists coming from... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-create-better-npr-art-in-blender-tips-techniques-v206g6mcw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How To Create Better NPR Art In Blender: Tips & Techniques | daily.dev og:description: 3D artist Zha Art shares lessons from six years of creating stylized NPR art in Blender. He focuses on two-point lighting, noting that artists coming from... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-create-better-npr-art-in-blender-tips-techniques-v206g6mcw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/v206G6MCW.png og:image:alt: How To Create Better NPR Art In Blender: Tips & Techniques og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How To Create Better NPR Art In Blender: Tips & Techniques **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 3D artist Zha Art shares lessons from six years of creating stylized NPR art in Blender. He focuses on two-point lighting, noting that artists coming from realistic rendering backgrounds often overlook it, and shows his own lighting setup. He also covers compositing, explaining how it ties a scene's elements together, plus personal tricks. Fog, god rays, and other visual effects round out the discussion of what matters in stylized 3D work. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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