YES. Been following grease pencil's development for years to see this. I know this is niche stuff, but you're literally the first person I've seen talking about the issues & solutions involved in grease pencil ALL the way around a 3d mesh. Your work is inspiring, your message concise, and your delivery full of charm. THANK YOU! I am beyond excited to see more.
I am SO impressed with the tips and tutorials you provide on your channel. Normally I have to really dig through different videos on various channels to find all of the information I need, but you share it all! Thanks so much!
Not only are you talented and expert, and not only are you great at teaching (even with the inserted bit hehe), but I don't think I'veever seen anyone this relaxed and natural on cam here on TH-cam. I hope in 2021 your channel grows from 111 subscribers to 111,000 subscribers. I'll start you off by becoming subscriber number 112 right now.
WHAT that is such a crazy amazing compliment, thank you! I'm excited to see what happens, there's such a want for grease pencil knowledge and I definitely enjoy trying things and uncovering different ways to do something :) I'm happy you're here!
@@SophieJantak Nothing is more natural than praising th deserving. Yes, I look forward to seeing what else you put out, and I'm sure detailed tutorials by you would be appreciated by both the Blender community and by a more general audience of artists who may not know Blender may be a great tool for them. I've seen some amazing conceptual artists who start off creating a scene and rendering in Blender and then moving on to Photoshop or Krita to create a more painterly look. Oh, and your 3D and line art creations are amazing. I've never seen anything like it. Well, that's enough from me. Carry on! :)
@@kentjensen4504 Thank you! (sorry for the late reply, I've realized youtube doesn't notify me about comment replies!) I've definitely seen some people do amazing things mixing Blender with painting programs, which is awesome, but something that excites me about Blender is the idea of keeping the whole workflow within the program - that's just a different angle I'm trying to take, with my grease pencil brushes and so forth. I'm excited to make tutorials about getting beautiful painterly looks all within Blender :)
@@SophieJantak Yes, I definetely see the appeal of keeping it all within Blender, to become one with the program, so to speak, making it your own amazing super brush. I also love the spirit of free and open source software movement, where right and left, art, entertainment and business, and different generations seem to meet. Maybe the future will be saved by Blender and Linux. I've not been much online lately. I'll check your latest videos. Cheers, Sophie.
I'm currently working on a project with characters that have Grease Pencil stuff as part of their design along side the model and texture and all that. My solution for this issue was to just hit numpad 5 on the keyboard to switch the camera from perspective to orthographic. Now the distance from the surface of the model would stay the same no matter how much I'd zoom in or out.
were the parts you drew on animated? i have a character where the designs on the torso are grease pencil but when i try to animate the armature the grease pencil acts weird. any solution for this?
Awesome! I had noticed that the offset was really inconsistent too. This is a brilliant solution 😁 What would be awesome is to see how you do those skeletons, they're beautiful!
@@SophieJantak Oh that'd be cool 😊 Nice videos so far, this in particular will be very helpful when drawing from view. Otherwise the only way it worked for me somewhat was to draw through the camera and move the camera around with lock to view, but still it didn't get the results you're producing.
It's probably been said somewhere else in the comments but here's another possible solution: instead of a solidify you could use a displacement modifier with a negative value. It works exactly the opposite way (it pushes the faces inside along their normal) and of course you'd have it disabled during the drawing phase and enabled in rendering. The possible benefit (?) could be a slightly more responsive experience (not having to compute the modifier at draw time) and the ability to add the modifier a the end of the process to a bunch of meshes (in theory you could also achieve the same result entirely in the material without the modifier if you render in cycles) oh and just found this channel but I love the things I've seen so far
I tried this, for some reason when I'm on camera view it still clips. However when I pan out it works perfectly, I'm new to blender so I don't know what to say
I'm new to grease pencil, and this is one of many problems that I encountered. Everytime I get a problem, I got frustrated and wanna bang my head into the wall. Luckily, I found your video. Idk why it motivates me to get back to my unfinished project. Anyway, your art work is remarkable !
Just a heads up that I won't be answering any questions or replying to comments on this video. It's really cool that it's still getting views, but I don't use grease pencil for drawing on 3D objects anymore, and so I really can't offer any more help or guidance!
That would work, but it's a destructive method. If you wanted to go back and make changes to your Grease Pencil art after shrinking the model you'd either have to scale it back up to exactly the right size or you'd have to keep two copies of the mesh - one for GP work and one for display. The modifier stack, on the other hand, is non-destructive.
Alternatively the "Displace" modifier without a texture does essentially the same as Alt + S but non-destructively, it uniformly displaces vertices based on their normal. Solidify is fine in many cases but it can often destroy uniformity and even glitch out if you overdo it, since your original geometry is essentially duplicated and merged with itself, sharp corners and creases can overlap and mess you up.
You have a very pleasant video personality. This is the perfect video for me, since I want to use Grease Pencil to make small animations and attach those animations to surfaces. Like making a GP animation of a moving mouth or cartoon eyeball and attaching the animation file to a modeled head shape. I think this video has shown me exactly what I was looking for! Keep making videos!
Just got going with Blender. I am doing animation. So far I have learned your technique works. And thanks for that! Quick tip: When animating the sphere, make the strokes a child of the sphere. That way the sphere will be animated, and the GP strokes will stay attached to the sphere as it moves around. Thanks!
This technique works great but I'm having and issue with lines showing through the model. Other resources say to turn on "Z" in Layer properties > Passes > Data to have lines hid by models, but when I turn that setting on the lines are once again clipping into the model, even when using the solidify modifier. Is there a fix to this?
TIMESTAMPS (because idk why the chapters aren't working...) 0:00 intro 0:28 getting started 2:05 adding a holdout material 3:28 possible solutions and their problems 4:07 my solution!
ANOTHER TIP: In this solution strokes intersect with the mesh while you draw them. BUT you can avoid this by checking the "In Front" checkbox in object's "Viewport Display" settings. Then you just draw normally)) (You start seeing strokes from the other side of the model, but you can make them a separate layer and hide)
This is really great content. You could do a whole series for traditional media artists and 2d digital artists about how Blender can open up a new world for them! A couple of decades ago I had a project taking the paintings by an artist friend and wrapping them around shapes to create painted environments (in quicktime VR) so you could go inside and travel through them. Sadly the tech was not up to the task, but we still talk about that project. Maybe it is time to try again...
Thank you! I guess I think that's what my channel is, because I can only approach Blender from the POV of a 2d digital/traditional artist, so what I'd really like is for my videos to feel like a way for others like me to jump into Blender. And hopefully the tutorial series I eventually do will also serve that purpose :) What you're describing sounds really cool, I'm not sure I fully understand (did you do this digitally or traditionally?) but if you have the time you should definitely try again with today's technology, I think that sounds awesome
Probably not to most on topic, but I'm having a problem with the greae pencil line-art modifier. See, I'm trying to create simple wire-frame UI animations like what we see in classic sci-fi. I make the objects and the world a simple flat RGB black. Then add a colored line-art modifer over it. But no matter what I do, the outline is too dark. Can you help me brighten it up?
Srinkwrap modifier ? i have just stared learning to draw with GP in blender and this is the first video i have seen of yours, so maybe you have already looked into this, but i find its the best way for me to draw onto objects.
I might just be stupid here but how did you color the turnarounds ? is that simply multiple surfaces of fill material untill it follows the shape well enough or how does that work ? I can't wrap my head around that :P Also, great video! Thanks a lot for this intelligence!
I’m glad you’re enjoying my videos! So I probably won’t make a video like this, because I don’t use brush textures - my computer struggled too much the last time I tried, and I really like getting a textured look just by overlapping different kinds of strokes. But it seems like some good stuff comes up if you search for grease pencil textures, I hope you can find what you’re looking for that way
You don't need to add a holdout material. What you can do, is in the filter category for the outliner, where the "Restriction Toggles" are at, you'll see a white square with an empty circle inside of it. Turn that on, create a new collection, put the sphere inside of it alone, and then enable the Holdout Toggle so you don't need to add a material. This allows you to keep whatever material is on the sphere now.
Smart work around. Have you thought of reporting this, frankly , bizzare issue to the blender devs? It really shouldn't need a workaround, but thanks for finding one.
Thanks! I've seen it talked about and from what I can tell it's not a bug? Though it's definitely weird and I don't fully understand it developer.blender.org/T61854
I tested it here, I didn't like it because the lines "sink" into the sphere, looking like they're missing. I tried two things. First, I selected the sphere and, in object mode, applied Subdivision surface, with "Levels Viewport" and "Render" both set to: 2. I don't know, that actually solved something... Things even improved when I went to Surface and set "Offset" to: 0.028. The lines are a little above the sphere, but they no longer "sink". :D
Thank you so much for making such a good explanatory video!!! Your work is so attractive. And your happy energy is overflowing, so I think happiness was contagious the whole time I watched it :) I'm writing comments using a translator because I'm not good at English, so please understand if the context is not smooth. Thank you so much!!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! THANKYOUSOMUCH Sophie for this video! I'm starting to learn blender and when I faced the surface on grease pencil I started to freak out, thought I was a denial in Blender 😅 But now I learned how to handle it. Thank you again for making this content available and make me persevere on this incredible software
OMG!!! just found you today (im coming from dedouze discord :)), (ofc subscribed:)) you are a blessing!! Thank you for this tutorial! YAS we would love a follow along tutorial, looking forward to it
I'm enjoying your video, Sophie!~ Impressed every time I see it!! I have a question. In the final rendering, the strokes drawn on the back of the mesh are visible through the mesh, but I was wondering how to fix this. I guess I didn't understand this video well..ㅜㅜ
What I usually do to prevent this is I add a background image, like a paper texture. In my watercolour brushes video I have a section where I explain how to do this: th-cam.com/video/aOFR2b9SKeY/w-d-xo.html at 2:22 You can also read more about it in this article: henryegloff.com/how-to-render-a-background-image-in-blender-2-8/
Hi Sophie (apologies if this is a duplicate as I sent a comment via a different TH-cam account of mine) I was wondering if it's possible to actually rig/animate the drawing-on-surface objects that you created in this video. I'm assuming it's possible or perhaps impractical? I'm curious what you think. Thanks again!
Thank you for your explanation. I just have one problem. At the end when I turn off solidify modifier for Vievport and render. In Viewport it looks OK, but when I render the grease pencil strokes still clip into the mesh?
Hey .. while iam trying out grease pencil on 3d objects.. my strokes gets overlapped .. I mean when ever I hide my 3d object it doesn't look good.. strokes are visible in every direction.. I don't know how to explain it .😅 Hope u got my point is there any solutions for It..! ? By the way ur tutorials are very helpful 😀 thankyou..
i just remembered why i abandoned trying to use grease pencil in blender, it is because of the inconsistency of offset in drawing on surface, did they fix this in 4.0 already?
Nice, practical video. Not much in it, but _Solidify_ adds an extra layer of mesh. If you use _Displace_ , instead, with the default settings (along normal), it won't.
Hey Sophie! How do you set up your turntables? Do you turn the camera around the object ( in which case how do you handle the background image?) or do you rotate the object itself? I’m finding the mesh with the holdout material isn’t rotating with the GP object, so I’m seeing through both sides. Any thoughts?
Woooww!! Very cool and helpful! Love it!❤. I really want to create a 2D cartoon look on a 3d character. How can I get smooth lines and lines that end thinner at the end of the stroke. Do you have tips?? Thanks for the video!❤
Your channel is fun to watch :) I'm trying to learn about Grease pencil for drawing comics, I have never been good with 2D art so that might make it possible for me. Lots to learn still.
Great tutorial!!! By the way, I am good at 3d but really bad at animation part. I want create a block version of my object/human/etc and draw on them for the expression. Does this grease pencil stick to the mesh? or I need to do some funky parenting etc and does it work if I put a bone to it? and sorry for asking, if I want to animate the drawing (expression of a face from normal to smiling), how do I do that?
At 01:39, I just want to say you're awesome. I was trying to learn grease pencil today, and I was getting really frustrated because I couldn't get the curves to lie against the surface I thought I was drawing on. I totally missed that little slider, and the tutorial I was following didn't mention it either. I looked everywhere in blender settings except the right spot. Thanks!
2:09 idk if this is helpful or works on the version of blender used in the video but a short 1 minute video said that issue can be remedied by hitting 5 on the number pad. link to the vid: th-cam.com/video/xLAlFoRPTPM/w-d-xo.html
I'm towards the end of my current project Almost done with the modeling I did a very small silly project making peter griffin and that's when I found out that the offset was weird and I kinda started to panic because I want my big project to have lines with the grease pencil Thank you for making this video, I can stop panicking now lol A lot of good tips in the comments too
An issue I’ve been having is when I try and fill the line art, if it’s still set to surface it will seemingly just fill it in a random place in space instead of in my lines. I’ve found a workaround for it but I’m not super happy with it and would rather my fills just work on surfaces. Does anyone have any idea why it’s doing this and a potential fix? I’ve tried making the offset a little higher as I was thinking maybe the fill was getting lost in the mesh, but nope, it’ll just appear super far off into the distance.
I love grease Pencil but you can tell that its not exactly made by people who draw a lot. It just takes a little bit of getting used to and a few workarounds. I hope the tools become more intuitive in a few years!
Ive been looking all over for a solution to looking at the strokes in the back with 3d grease pencil drawings. But i did everything she said, used the holdout material, kept the mesh, i can still see all the strokes in the back... has anything changed?
ok so here is a little art rojrect that i made. th-cam.com/video/auWlCEu9n3k/w-d-xo.html what i am looking for is tools and techniques to make the 3d elements look more like a painting without painting over it myself. got any ideas?
I forget the name of this setting because I haven't used blender in a month, but in sculpting mode there is a setting you can disable that turns of the zoom brush stroke linking. I haven't used Grease pencil much, but I'm sure if there is a setting to turn that off in sculpting then there has to be one for Grease Pencil as well right?
Really like your tutorials. I'm curious do you create a blank start up file with a hold out material in it. If not you should do this and then add a fake user so it will be saved in the startup file even if it isn't attached to anything.
YES. Been following grease pencil's development for years to see this. I know this is niche stuff, but you're literally the first person I've seen talking about the issues & solutions involved in grease pencil ALL the way around a 3d mesh. Your work is inspiring, your message concise, and your delivery full of charm. THANK YOU! I am beyond excited to see more.
WOW this means so much! Thank you for this, I’m so grateful for the response to my videos and I’m excited to make more
I am SO impressed with the tips and tutorials you provide on your channel. Normally I have to really dig through different videos on various channels to find all of the information I need, but you share it all! Thanks so much!
I love your videos and your personality, I hope your channel explodes in popularity.
Thank you! I wouldn't be opposed to that happening ;)
Thank you so much for your tutorials, you're saving my brain from exploding! I will follow aaaalll your tutorials to become a Blender master
As soon as you mentioned the solidify modifier, I knew where you were going with it. Clever!
I'll probably use this, thanks!
This is amazing! Wow thank you! Please keep the grease pencil stuff coming! Thank you 🙏
I’m so happy you appreciate it! I really enjoy making these so more are coming :)
Not only are you talented and expert, and not only are you great at teaching (even with the inserted bit hehe), but I don't think I'veever seen anyone this relaxed and natural on cam here on TH-cam. I hope in 2021 your channel grows from 111 subscribers to 111,000 subscribers. I'll start you off by becoming subscriber number 112 right now.
WHAT that is such a crazy amazing compliment, thank you! I'm excited to see what happens, there's such a want for grease pencil knowledge and I definitely enjoy trying things and uncovering different ways to do something :) I'm happy you're here!
@@SophieJantak Nothing is more natural than praising th deserving. Yes, I look forward to seeing what else you put out, and I'm sure detailed tutorials by you would be appreciated by both the Blender community and by a more general audience of artists who may not know Blender may be a great tool for them. I've seen some amazing conceptual artists who start off creating a scene and rendering in Blender and then moving on to Photoshop or Krita to create a more painterly look. Oh, and your 3D and line art creations are amazing. I've never seen anything like it. Well, that's enough from me. Carry on! :)
@@kentjensen4504 Thank you! (sorry for the late reply, I've realized youtube doesn't notify me about comment replies!) I've definitely seen some people do amazing things mixing Blender with painting programs, which is awesome, but something that excites me about Blender is the idea of keeping the whole workflow within the program - that's just a different angle I'm trying to take, with my grease pencil brushes and so forth. I'm excited to make tutorials about getting beautiful painterly looks all within Blender :)
@@SophieJantak Yes, I definetely see the appeal of keeping it all within Blender, to become one with the program, so to speak, making it your own amazing super brush. I also love the spirit of free and open source software movement, where right and left, art, entertainment and business, and different generations seem to meet. Maybe the future will be saved by Blender and Linux. I've not been much online lately. I'll check your latest videos. Cheers, Sophie.
I'm currently working on a project with characters that have Grease Pencil stuff as part of their design along side the model and texture and all that.
My solution for this issue was to just hit numpad 5 on the keyboard to switch the camera from perspective to orthographic. Now the distance from the surface of the model would stay the same no matter how much I'd zoom in or out.
Ohhh interesting! I hadn't heard of that trick before, that's so cool! Thanks for sharing :)
THANK YOU ! :)
Yes, it works, I already knew it. But it doesn't work by moving the bones.
were the parts you drew on animated? i have a character where the designs on the torso are grease pencil but when i try to animate the armature the grease pencil acts weird. any solution for this?
@@noarsy7716 you just have to carefully tweak your bone weights. And yeah, it was a pain to do that.
The way you use blender is impressive.
Thank you!
Awesome! I had noticed that the offset was really inconsistent too. This is a brilliant solution 😁 What would be awesome is to see how you do those skeletons, they're beautiful!
Thank you so much, I’m glad it helps! Working towards an animated skeleton tutorial actually, so I’m glad to know that’s something you’d want
@@SophieJantak Oh that'd be cool 😊 Nice videos so far, this in particular will be very helpful when drawing from view. Otherwise the only way it worked for me somewhat was to draw through the camera and move the camera around with lock to view, but still it didn't get the results you're producing.
New to Grease Pencil and you are awesome!
Thank you! Best of luck learning grease pencil :D
That is brilliant.
It's probably been said somewhere else in the comments but here's
another possible solution: instead of a solidify you could use a
displacement modifier with a negative value. It works exactly the
opposite way (it pushes the faces inside along their normal) and of
course you'd have it disabled during the drawing phase and enabled in
rendering. The possible benefit (?) could be a slightly more responsive
experience (not having to compute the modifier at draw time) and the
ability to add the modifier a the end of the process to a bunch of
meshes (in theory you could also achieve the same result entirely in the material without the modifier if you render in cycles)
oh and just found this channel but I love the things I've seen so far
Hey Arturo, actually no one has suggested that before, and that's a really interesting alternative! Thanks for sharing :)
I tried this, for some reason when I'm on camera view it still clips. However when I pan out it works perfectly, I'm new to blender so I don't know what to say
I'm new to grease pencil, and this is one of many problems that I encountered. Everytime I get a problem, I got frustrated and wanna bang my head into the wall. Luckily, I found your video. Idk why it motivates me to get back to my unfinished project.
Anyway, your art work is remarkable !
Thank you! hooo boy do I know the feeling of wanting to banging your head into a wall while trying to learn Blender!! I'm glad my videos can help :)
You have no dislikes on this video, you should be proud of yourself :3
Just a heads up that I won't be answering any questions or replying to comments on this video. It's really cool that it's still getting views, but I don't use grease pencil for drawing on 3D objects anymore, and so I really can't offer any more help or guidance!
Would you come back for one last job?
Wow, my apologies I didn't see this message before reaching out with a question. I'm sure I'll be able to figure it out.
You're good at this, look forward to more!
Thank you!
3:53 What if you use `alt + s` to shrink/fatten the model instead of scaling it? Btw, very cool intro skeleton animations👍
I didn’t know about that, that could work too! I’ll pin your comment so people can see and try it out for themselves
@@SophieJantak Nice!
That would work, but it's a destructive method. If you wanted to go back and make changes to your Grease Pencil art after shrinking the model you'd either have to scale it back up to exactly the right size or you'd have to keep two copies of the mesh - one for GP work and one for display.
The modifier stack, on the other hand, is non-destructive.
Alternatively the "Displace" modifier without a texture does essentially the same as Alt + S but non-destructively, it uniformly displaces vertices based on their normal. Solidify is fine in many cases but it can often destroy uniformity and even glitch out if you overdo it, since your original geometry is essentially duplicated and merged with itself, sharp corners and creases can overlap and mess you up.
@@SophieJantak I like this method the most. If you always use the same amt of shrinking, no worries
Thanks Sophie! This was super helpful
Happy it helped!
Thank you for explanation, Sophie! SuperMegaCool tutorial! )
You have a very pleasant video personality. This is the perfect video for me, since I want to use Grease Pencil to make small animations and attach those animations to surfaces. Like making a GP animation of a moving mouth or cartoon eyeball and attaching the animation file to a modeled head shape. I think this video has shown me exactly what I was looking for!
Keep making videos!
Thank you! And that is definitely such a cool application of grease pencil, I'd be interested to see what you create with it
Just got going with Blender. I am doing animation. So far I have learned your technique works. And thanks for that!
Quick tip: When animating the sphere, make the strokes a child of the sphere. That way the sphere will be animated, and the GP strokes will stay attached to the sphere as it moves around.
Thanks!
GENIUSSSSS!!!!!
I feel like you’re talking a whole different language but it’s FASCINATING
Haha thank you Maiga! I know I enjoy watching people talk about the things they love that I don’t understand at all, just for their excitement
Really cool style relax tutorial. Wish you the best on your online adventure !
Aw thank you so much! I'm glad you like the tutorial style :)
This technique works great but I'm having and issue with lines showing through the model. Other resources say to turn on "Z" in Layer properties > Passes > Data to have lines hid by models, but when I turn that setting on the lines are once again clipping into the model, even when using the solidify modifier. Is there a fix to this?
This is just what I was looking for, thanks for sharing! BTW, your work is awesome, really like the art style!
TIMESTAMPS (because idk why the chapters aren't working...)
0:00 intro
0:28 getting started
2:05 adding a holdout material
3:28 possible solutions and their problems
4:07 my solution!
ANOTHER TIP: In this solution strokes intersect with the mesh while you draw them. BUT you can avoid this by checking the "In Front" checkbox in object's "Viewport Display" settings. Then you just draw normally)) (You start seeing strokes from the other side of the model, but you can make them a separate layer and hide)
Whoa! I had this issue for while and couldn't find a solution. Thanks a lot!
this worked!
I've searching for this for days!
You're a life saver.
And keep them coming.
I’m so glad it came at a good time! I too have searched far and wide for this answer, so I knew I had to share my discovery
I rendered the image with a holdout material on the sphere and the lineart was visible through the object :(
You are the living ^w^ face. It was super adorable XD
This is so cool! I love your art work and style. Thank you for sharing, I'm looking forward to seeing more :D
Aw thanks! I'm so happy you're here :)
This is really great content. You could do a whole series for traditional media artists and 2d digital artists about how Blender can open up a new world for them! A couple of decades ago I had a project taking the paintings by an artist friend and wrapping them around shapes to create painted environments (in quicktime VR) so you could go inside and travel through them. Sadly the tech was not up to the task, but we still talk about that project. Maybe it is time to try again...
Thank you! I guess I think that's what my channel is, because I can only approach Blender from the POV of a 2d digital/traditional artist, so what I'd really like is for my videos to feel like a way for others like me to jump into Blender. And hopefully the tutorial series I eventually do will also serve that purpose :) What you're describing sounds really cool, I'm not sure I fully understand (did you do this digitally or traditionally?) but if you have the time you should definitely try again with today's technology, I think that sounds awesome
Probably not to most on topic, but I'm having a problem with the greae pencil line-art modifier. See, I'm trying to create simple wire-frame UI animations like what we see in classic sci-fi. I make the objects and the world a simple flat RGB black. Then add a colored line-art modifer over it. But no matter what I do, the outline is too dark. Can you help me brighten it up?
FUNNY , USEFULL AND HONEST TUTORIAL :))))
Aw hey thanks!!!
0:10
"and never left"
Me: Another poor soul has became a victim of Grease Pencil :(
Srinkwrap modifier ? i have just stared learning to draw with GP in blender and this is the first video i have seen of yours, so maybe you have already looked into this, but i find its the best way for me to draw onto objects.
This helps a lot! Thanks great stuff
I might just be stupid here but how did you color the turnarounds ? is that simply multiple surfaces of fill material untill it follows the shape well enough or how does that work ? I can't wrap my head around that :P Also, great video! Thanks a lot for this intelligence!
Heehee well I'm actually editing a video now that will explain just that! Look out for that this Thursday ;)
Whatever is in that Kombucha, I want some! You are a great teacher with great energy!
Hey Sophie big fan of your channel, any chance you could do a video on custom brush textures for grease pencil?
I’m glad you’re enjoying my videos! So I probably won’t make a video like this, because I don’t use brush textures - my computer struggled too much the last time I tried, and I really like getting a textured look just by overlapping different kinds of strokes. But it seems like some good stuff comes up if you search for grease pencil textures, I hope you can find what you’re looking for that way
You don't need to add a holdout material. What you can do, is in the filter category for the outliner, where the "Restriction Toggles" are at, you'll see a white square with an empty circle inside of it.
Turn that on, create a new collection, put the sphere inside of it alone, and then enable the Holdout Toggle so you don't need to add a material. This allows you to keep whatever material is on the sphere now.
what do you mean by that last part to keep the material?
I'm trying to do exactly that but it's not keeping any materials on the 3d objects
@@SwagHyde Watch this video: th-cam.com/video/JpdmneLtlXQ/w-d-xo.html
Smart work around. Have you thought of reporting this, frankly , bizzare issue to the blender devs? It really shouldn't need a workaround, but thanks for finding one.
Thanks! I've seen it talked about and from what I can tell it's not a bug? Though it's definitely weird and I don't fully understand it developer.blender.org/T61854
cool,thanks so much. This was super helpful
tl/dw
surface offset to zero
use displace or solidify to offset surface and bring strokes higher.
First time viewer, this is super and also you're very likeable! And your art is beautiful! Subbed
I love you Sophie!!!
I tested it here, I didn't like it because the lines "sink" into the sphere, looking like they're missing. I tried two things. First, I selected the sphere and, in object mode, applied Subdivision surface, with "Levels Viewport" and "Render" both set to: 2. I don't know, that actually solved something...
Things even improved when I went to Surface and set "Offset" to: 0.028. The lines are a little above the sphere, but they no longer "sink". :D
Thank you so much for making such a good explanatory video!!! Your work is so attractive.
And your happy energy is overflowing, so I think happiness was contagious the whole time I watched it :)
I'm writing comments using a translator because I'm not good at English, so please understand if the context is not smooth. Thank you so much!!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! THANKYOUSOMUCH Sophie for this video! I'm starting to learn blender and when I faced the surface on grease pencil I started to freak out, thought I was a denial in Blender 😅 But now I learned how to handle it. Thank you again for making this content available and make me persevere on this incredible software
OMG!!! just found you today (im coming from dedouze discord :)), (ofc subscribed:)) you are a blessing!! Thank you for this tutorial! YAS we would love a follow along tutorial, looking forward to it
Thank you so much! Glad you found my channel :D
I'm enjoying your video, Sophie!~ Impressed every time I see it!! I have a question. In the final rendering, the strokes drawn on the back of the mesh are visible through the mesh, but I was wondering how to fix this. I guess I didn't understand this video well..ㅜㅜ
Actually, I have learnt many from this solution from her. I did not know that and now I’ve decided to learn and use for my project. Thank you so much.
When you use the holdout shader how do you make it so it doesn't leave a checkerboard or black background in render?
What I usually do to prevent this is I add a background image, like a paper texture. In my watercolour brushes video I have a section where I explain how to do this: th-cam.com/video/aOFR2b9SKeY/w-d-xo.html at 2:22
You can also read more about it in this article: henryegloff.com/how-to-render-a-background-image-in-blender-2-8/
Aha, this is exactly what I needed! Now I shall proceed onward
Hi Sophie (apologies if this is a duplicate as I sent a comment via a different TH-cam account of mine) I was wondering if it's possible to actually rig/animate the drawing-on-surface objects that you created in this video. I'm assuming it's possible or perhaps impractical? I'm curious what you think. Thanks again!
Thank you for your explanation. I just have one problem. At the end when I turn off solidify modifier for Vievport and render. In Viewport it looks OK, but when I render the grease pencil strokes still clip into the mesh?
Hey .. while iam trying out grease pencil on 3d objects.. my strokes gets overlapped .. I mean when ever I hide my 3d object it doesn't look good.. strokes are visible in every direction.. I don't know how to explain it .😅 Hope u got my point is there any solutions for It..! ? By the way ur tutorials are very helpful 😀 thankyou..
Hi, just a quick question, grease pencil have to be drawn frame by frame if the object is an animated 3d character right?
If you go into orthographic view mode you won't have that zoom/offset problem
I just watched your video again :) I will use this technique in my comic book for buildings and static objects. Cheers!
i just remembered why i abandoned trying to use grease pencil in blender, it is because of the inconsistency of offset in drawing on surface, did they fix this in 4.0 already?
Nice, practical video. Not much in it, but _Solidify_ adds an extra layer of mesh. If you use _Displace_ , instead, with the default settings (along normal), it won't.
Hey Sophie! How do you set up your turntables? Do you turn the camera around the object ( in which case how do you handle the background image?) or do you rotate the object itself? I’m finding the mesh with the holdout material isn’t rotating with the GP object, so I’m seeing through both sides. Any thoughts?
Woooww!! Very cool and helpful! Love it!❤. I really want to create a 2D cartoon look on a 3d character. How can I get smooth lines and lines that end thinner at the end of the stroke. Do you have tips?? Thanks for the video!❤
If you disable the solidfy viewport toggle, does it still draw with proper offset? Lovely voice btw :)
Your channel is fun to watch :) I'm trying to learn about Grease pencil for drawing comics, I have never been good with 2D art so that might make it possible for me. Lots to learn still.
You are a beautiful human being. And you have an amazingly soothing voice. May luck and millions of subscribers be with your channel.
I followed as you said but it won't work, I don't know why can you help me please
Great tutorial!!! By the way, I am good at 3d but really bad at animation part. I want create a block version of my object/human/etc and draw on them for the expression. Does this grease pencil stick to the mesh? or I need to do some funky parenting etc and does it work if I put a bone to it? and sorry for asking, if I want to animate the drawing (expression of a face from normal to smiling), how do I do that?
At 01:39, I just want to say you're awesome. I was trying to learn grease pencil today, and I was getting really frustrated because I couldn't get the curves to lie against the surface I thought I was drawing on. I totally missed that little slider, and the tutorial I was following didn't mention it either. I looked everywhere in blender settings except the right spot. Thanks!
2:09
idk if this is helpful or works on the version of blender used in the video but a short 1 minute video said that issue can be remedied by hitting 5 on the number pad.
link to the vid:
th-cam.com/video/xLAlFoRPTPM/w-d-xo.html
Omg, that's so cool I already love you ^^ Subscribed
I'm towards the end of my current project
Almost done with the modeling
I did a very small silly project making peter griffin and that's when I found out that the offset was weird and I kinda started to panic because I want my big project to have lines with the grease pencil
Thank you for making this video, I can stop panicking now lol
A lot of good tips in the comments too
Thanks for the tutorial! I followed the part about hold out material, but I still could see the mesh... Anyone could help me?
An issue I’ve been having is when I try and fill the line art, if it’s still set to surface it will seemingly just fill it in a random place in space instead of in my lines. I’ve found a workaround for it but I’m not super happy with it and would rather my fills just work on surfaces. Does anyone have any idea why it’s doing this and a potential fix?
I’ve tried making the offset a little higher as I was thinking maybe the fill was getting lost in the mesh, but nope, it’ll just appear super far off into the distance.
Normally i will say thank you bro 😒😗 but this time i have to say: thank you sis
Thank you.. I'm learning to Rotoscope as well and this will help out alot on the humanoid I'm trying to draw on. So thanks.
Great tutorial thank you. I'm having an issue. I changed the offset but out still doesn't draw onto the surface what could I do?
I love grease Pencil but you can tell that its not exactly made by people who draw a lot. It just takes a little bit of getting used to and a few workarounds. I hope the tools become more intuitive in a few years!
am just an art baby getting to know blender. your 2d tutorial really helps thanks..
Ive been looking all over for a solution to looking at the strokes in the back with 3d grease pencil drawings. But i did everything she said, used the holdout material, kept the mesh, i can still see all the strokes in the back... has anything changed?
Why is my holdout dark? I’m working in 3.4
ok so here is a little art rojrect that i made. th-cam.com/video/auWlCEu9n3k/w-d-xo.html what i am looking for is tools and techniques to make the 3d elements look more like a painting without painting over it myself. got any ideas?
just in the final render it worked. But its still messy while working with it... any ideas?
wow, wonderful! Thanks for sharing
soy un fan latino que desea aprender a dibujar a su perro pancho, grascias Sofi
i am going to prove your technique and so i tell you, how was this. thanks Sofi
I forget the name of this setting because I haven't used blender in a month, but in sculpting mode there is a setting you can disable that turns of the zoom brush stroke linking. I haven't used Grease pencil much, but I'm sure if there is a setting to turn that off in sculpting then there has to be one for Grease Pencil as well right?
thank you for the video! was looking for a grease pencil one!
You are unbelievably talented, like DAMNN keep it up
Nice workaround, tho I think this should be considered and reported as bug, there's no reason for the offset to change with the zoom of the 3d view
JUST found your channel with this video. Love the feel of your art and what you do. Thank you for guiding others.
This is the best video ever. Just the right amount of instruction and show. Just subscribe
OMG you art is so fire, why I didnt get you before on recomended before xddd
thank you Sophie . I got what I need from your tutorials . . . . . thank youuuuuu
thanks so much this was super helpful !
I'm so glad to hear it :)
My offset is in a different spot than hers, can anyone offer advice as to where it would be?
what if i delete the object after completeting the drawing ?is that possible or it will delete gp blank too ??
Really like your tutorials. I'm curious do you create a blank start up file with a hold out material in it. If not you should do this and then add a fake user so it will be saved in the startup file even if it isn't attached to anything.
this is a nice technic for improving mastering form skill in character design!!