Moving on to Stroke Placement, we have Origin, which is what we were using to demonstrate the drawing planes. Let’s set the drawing plane to front for now. Cursor allows you to get really precise angles by adjusting the rotation of the cursor here, which is not possible with the other planes. If it’s set to Side, it will be situated along the side view, to the y, and if set to Top, situated to the top view or perpendicular to the z. Notice how the canvas doesn’t rotate compared to the previous one. If it’s set to Front, the canvas will be situated to front view, along the x. So, starting with the Drawing Planes, if it’s set to View, you can draw according the view you have in your viewport. Depending on what options you have selected in those drop downs will inform how you’ll draw in 3D space. If this is your first time using grease pencil, the 2 options up here, Stroke Placement and Drawing Planes, are extremely important for using this tool successfully. Let’s go to the Overlays Dropdown here and check Grid, 3D Cursor, and Canvas. The first thing we’ll want to do is to adjust some visibility options that will make drawing with grease pencil easier. Now, let’s go into Draw Mode by selecting from the dropdown up here or hitting CRTL + Tab and then selecting it from the radial menu. Bring in a grease pencil object with Shift + A > Grease Pencil > Blank. To start, let’s head into the 2D Animation Workspace by clicking on the Plus icon up here, going to 2D Animation, and selecting it from the list. But, towards the end, it might be helpful to have one for adding details, although you can still get by with a mouse. For the most part, you won’t need a tablet. I’ll briefly go over some grease pencil basics and then head into the project. However, in this tutorial, we’ll be creating this bakery entirely with just grease pencil. It’s really fun especially when combining it with 3D elements. If this is your first time to my channel, welcome! Grease pencil is one of the tools I like using in my workflow.

It’s a pretty powerful tool that’s great to draw with and adds another dimension to your artwork. If you don’t know what grease pencil is, it’s an element that allows you to draw in 2D but in 3D space. Hey everyone! It’s Kevin and this is a tutorial to create this bakery shop in Blender 3.0 with Grease Pencil.

2d to 3d in blender