Blender Secrets - Grease Pencil Strokes to Mesh

If you’ve sketched a design on top of a curved surface using Grease Pencil, you can convert it to a Mesh outline in order to give you a headstart with retopology. It takes a few steps to set it up, which is explained in this video.

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[ecgart]

Wow, 1 minute tutorial but straight to the point, it beats all those crappy over 10 minutes tutorials that still didn't give you what you were looking for, I wish all tutorials could be as short as this, clear, and straight to the point, and no click bait.

[josephroiml]

What a powerful technique, pure gold, this channel.

[shamanking]

not what i needed but i love videos like this, short but packs a ton of good info.

[ChrisAllenMusic]

This is very interesting. I always learn something watching your vids! I've gotta say, though: this one feels a little complex for the end goal of a low poly mesh on a curved surface. 🤷

[qedqubit]

this kind of short tips & tricks is pure GOLD 🤩 !

[Favmir]

Beautifully concise and helpful. Thank you.

[SPQRxUSAxNUSA]

thank you, it took me for EVER to do this until I saw your video.

[rafarodriguez]

Very useful to add details to Meshes by Drawing. Thanks!!

[PingoBot]

Really like this channel. Thanks for your good work.

[sachintendulkar]

how did you do the last par but adding filling up those verts

[descendinguniverse]

I just use free Bezier mode, seems like less steps

[fraklin]

Whenever I model something I always tell myself "retopology is always an option" and then I proceed to make the most interesting silhouette I can.

[oovejacloonada]

it's possible to make Topology with this technique?

[JacobKinsley]

I think there's a decimate option for grease pencil

[clanker]

It's neat but it just seems like normal modeling but with extra steps. You are better off just using vertices to make the shape, then extrude inwards and use grid fill and boom, you just got the exact same shape and with better topology

[jasonbowman]

Okay. I believe I was trying to alter the grease pencil and not the path. I am so new to this and I was unaware I needed to actually click on the path. I am slow in some areas but it's just the way it is. Good video however.

[jorari]

Hummm, perhaps for other purposes works well, but for retopologyze I would start from the beginning with a hand-draw stroke as guide and creating polygons with the F2 technique over the surface. Too much steps which would turn the process hyper-tedious if you have 35 planks.

[mochorong]

Always returns error: "mesh objects have no active vertex" when I click on Checker Deselect

[schpoingle]

i'm sorry what happened after converting to path? i've rewatched the 3 frames where you say convert that to a mesh over and over. thanks

[marufkilichev]

Hi bro im still waiting for your tutorials about modeling in high poly Airplane f 22 or mig 29 or su 35, i want to print it for EDF, thank u in advance and have a wonderful days !!!