
The Inktober shader is a personal project in Unreal Engine 5 that imitates the effects of hand-drawn ink.
Please note that image compression affects the stippling noise, so these images are an approximation of the live effect.

The complete effect

Edge detect

Stippling


By stretching the noise anisotropically, we get a hatching-like effect.

The material is versatile and modular. It has several switch parameters that can be enabled to create different effects, some of which are demonstrated above.