This Blender Add-On Lets You Paint Light Directly In Viewport
Coming soon.
PaintLight is a Blender tool currently being developed by Frame 120. There isn't a lot of information about it out there yet, but it's already caught a lot of attention online.
It works only with Cycles and is apparently very flexible. The developer has promised to share more examples soon, so stay tuned and make sure to follow them on X/Twitter.
There's also a newsletter you can subscribe to if you want to be notified when PaintLight is officially released.
In the meantime, you might be interested in Sturdy, a real-time, stylized procedural Blender painting shader that reacts with colorful strokes to plain white lights:
Omar Faruq Tawsif has a tutorial on how to add NPR lighting to hand-painted scenes:
We've also featured FunSizedThought's experiment with painting light and shadow straight onto a model:
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