Blender Grease Pencil Lesson Notes

Last updated Mar 29, 2023 Edit Source

• Lessons
• Notes
• Grease pencil
• Blender

• Cntrl + 2 in object mode -> auto subdivides
• Cntrl + A -> look in the apply menu for Visual Geometry to Mesh

1. Add Grease pencil object
   1. or -> Open new file with 2D Animation option
2. Set up your tablet
   1. set your pen buttons to middle-click and right-click
3. optional set up your viewport
   1. toggle world in the background options of your shading dropdown in the 3D-viewport.
   2. change your viewport color to something you are used to
4. Get Extra brushes
   1. Enable the Grease Pencil Tools addon that comes shipped with Blender
   2. Create a grease pencil object and go into Draw mode
   3. Navigate to the Tool tab in the outliner
   4. In the Brushes section open the dropdown and click Download and Import Texture Brush pack

• Object vs edit mode
• + drawing => stabilizer toggle (like smoothing in sculpt mode)
• -> Brush size
• + -> Brush opacity
• extract palette from image
  • load image into image viewer
  • extract palette
  • Generate palette -> import it coolors.co

Grease pencil is somewhere between drawing, vector illustration, and 3D modeling

When you use grease pencil there are many different workflows. Often workflows still include modeling especially for 3D illustrations.

There are pros and cons to each workflow. When you are using materials for all your colors

Materials are a nice way to organize your colors. It’s like using a set palette.

Some of these tutorials are breaking some modeling rules that you should be following.

Just keep this in mind as your working and try and focus on the 2D aspects of the tutorials.

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