How a grayscale render window helps me paint || grease pencil quick tip || Blender 3

(includes .blend file download of this piece I worked on in this video)

SOCIAL MEDIA
(Yes it's just my name everywhere haha)

Equipment I use…

TO DRAW
Wacom cintiq (I was VERY lucky to buy one second hand!)
Wacom intuos pro medium
Blender 3

TO MAKE VIDEOS
OBS for screen recording
My webcam to film my face
Zoom H1 Handy recorder for audio
Blender 3 to edit
Blender 3 for the thumbnails

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 tutorial (setting up the window)
1:36 tutorial (making it grayscale)
2:29 let's chat (why do I love this trick so much?)
5:26 exciting announcement

[chrystianyaxche]

You are an incredible artist, congratulations.

[brunodepaulak]

Great tip! Still doing the basic tutorials, but saved it for later. Thanks!

[yarik]

that elephant hybrid is sick! I just got into grease pencil and blender for that matter. Thanks for all the help.

My Bonsai tree came out good enough. Then I tired to make it look more cyberpunk but in the end i just ended up playing with the colors for far too long lol

[GaryParris]

well done on creating your workflow that works for you in Blenders grease paint :O)

[zbop]

Dang im late to this one. I remembered reading a twitter thread about the BW filters and adjustments in photoshop and other art apps. I wish i could find it again, but if i remember right the bw adjustments use a linear conversion while our eyes see in logarithmic i think. Anyway its better to use a black layer set to the blend mode color, it gives a more accurate greyscale conversion than bw adjustment. You can try and tell with very vibrant rainbow type images.
The difference isnt too much unless your doing that values first method.

Anyway i dont know if blender uses that same sort of algorithm for the bw node in the compositor. Something to be aware of and on the look our for that not every type of conversion code or node might be the most accurate.

[tatedinizbr]

Do you plan to talk about how you choose your colors on Patreon? I would really love to know more about that. Thank you so much for your tutorials!

[recyclebinladen]

What drawing monitor do you use, Sophie?

[artistCDMJ]

I must be dumb here - how are you keeping the render window on top? Or is it to the side on a separate monitor and you have just added it to your video with editing?

[ConcavePgons]

I bet you can now use the real-time compositor to switch to grayscale.