Abstract: Image and video painterly rendering is an important problem in Non-Photorcalistic Rendering (NPR)，which has various applications in many fields, like cartoon animation, digital entertainment, etc. This paper reviewed the development of painterly rendering, whilst some typical approaches were investigated and classified, and the characteristic of each technique was fully analyzed. Based on this,some challenges and possible directions in the domain of image and video painterly rendering were discussed for reference.

Key words: Painterly rendering, Non-photorealistic rendering,hexture, Stroke