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Box and Circle, for simple quadrilaterals and circles.Curve, for a more traditional Bézier experience.Polyline, where you can create compound vector paths with sharp corners.

Eyedropper, used to pull references for a material that you would like to create.

Cutter, used to target points between intersecting strokes.

Tint, used to paint onto strokes in order to change their base color.

Erase, used to erase strokes that you've already drawn.

You can also bend these 2D strokes to your will in 3D space through Edit Mode, which can be a lot of fun.Īs for the rest of the Draw Mode tools to your right, many are self-explanatory: It should be set to 3D space by default, which is like x-ray off, but you can set it to front mode for x-ray on.This simple Grease Pencil tutorial can be used to lay the foundation for 2D animation or even just conceptual art and planning. Now in Blender 2.8, there is no more x-ray. Then switch to edit mode, and under strokes, there is the option to convert to geometry. You can change the mode to surface, 3d cursor or origin through the drop-down middle top screen.

Change to draw mode and draw your line with the tools. Firstly, to use grease pencil you must create a grease pencil object in object mode. Uncheck it.Īs of Blender 2.8, the method of using grease pencil has changed quite a bit. On the right-hand side tab in 3D view (As used above), there is a checkbox called X-Ray. The line will stay, but you can then select the line, which is now an object or curve.Īnd yes, you can hide the line. It seems that if you draw a line with the grease pencil and then select it (under the grease pencil layers section in the right-hand side tab of 3D view), you can click on the convert to geometry dropdown under tools (where you select the grease pencil). I have never really had a use for grease pencil until I saw this post and I took a little look-see in blender 2.79