Blender 3D Grease Pencil Tutorial - Bakery Shop

Hey everyone! Wanted to create an updated grease pencil tutorial for Blender 3.0. There’s been a lot of changes on it and I thought it’d be good to walk through some of the drawing options and shape tools. You won’t need a tablet for the first part, but towards the end, it might be helpful to have one for adding details. I am planning on putting out more tutorials, so feel free to let me know what else you’d like to see.

Hope you guys enjoy!

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◈ TIMESTAMPS ◈
0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Grease Pencil Overview
2:53 - Scene Setup
3:22 - Main Walls
4:55 - Setting the Camera View
6:09 - Roof and Base
7:46 - Doors and Windows - Outline
9:28 - Main Bakery Sign - Outline
10:42 - Door, Windows, and Main Bakery Sign - Fill
12:04 - Window Glare
12:54 - Awnings
15:59 - Planters
18:24 - Corner Pillars
18:58 - Hanging Sign
20:29 - Plants
21:19 - Plants (Material Paint vs. Vertex Color)
22:41 - Trees
24:08 - Details
26:41 - Outro & Final Loop

◈ EQUIPMENT ◈

[Will_Forge]

Man, Imagine if Unity supported Grease Pencil objects as well. Imagine an entire game with this kind of style of 3D art and animation look, even with other art styles. It would seriously stand out just by how it feels.

[darkmallet]

I always thought grease pencil was difficult to use but you have changed everything.

[ilikeavacado]

To anyone who can't enable a canvas... The canvas overlay (1:13) in Blender 4.0 has been moved to the new dropdown... just to the right of Overlay options :)

[roymath]

Great tutorial.. for those following along, I condensed the initial setup:

Delete default cube
Add grease pencil object (Shift + A > Grease Pencil > Blank)
Go into Draw Mode (from dropdown)
Go to the Overlays Dropdown - check Grid, 3D Cursor, Canvas
In Stroke Placement
- use 3D Cursor
In Drawing Planes,
- set to Front View
In object mode, set 3D cursor to world origin
Set grease pencil origin to 3d cursor
Color Management:
- Filmic -> Standard (more accurate colors)
- Look -> Medium High Contrast
World Properties:
- background to pale yellow
In grease pencil:
- create New Layer; rename to "Walls"
- uncheck Use Light
In Materials Tab:
- create new material; name it "Walls".
- I’m making the stroke
In front view (Numpad 1)
- enter Draw Mode; select Box Tool
- set Radius to 35px
- uncheck Use Pressure
- bump up Strength to 1
Set timeline to the beginning.
Keep Auto Keying Button off

[jessejayjones]

Wow, this looks gorgeous!! Will have to give this a try :D Thank you for taking the time to put this together ❤️

[nagi]

This is INCREDIBLE, I'm so happy to find a tutorial that is so easy to follow, especially with an art style I've been struggling with!

[xzi]

hah, I been using blender for years and had no idea you could copy/past colors without actually having to open the color picker. That is awesome!

I'm very interested in grease pencil and that was a very clear concise guide, great work

[lucinfernos]

this is one of the first tutorials where i feel like i actively understood what was happening without having to rewind a bunch of times :'D great work, man!

[CeeTheJay]

So confident and clear, no pauses or tangents... so very helpful and well-produced. Either this took a zillion takes, or you are supernaturally skilled and fearless. Thank you!

[raysaga]

I'm so mad that youtube has not recommended me to your channel till now! i've been going through grease pencil tutorials but none of them are as easy to understand as yours. Thank you finally for coming into my life sir. I'm now fallen in love with blender again. :)

[HanSolocambo]

Blender is so damn amazing ! I wonder every day how I was ever stupid enough to use 3DS Max for 20 years.
Great, great, tutorial. So much ! to learn in there. Quiet amazing.
Thanks for sharing your obviously well-tested techniques.

[oogalook]

Grease pencil is astonishingly powerful. Thanks for such a simple and fast-paced tutorial. It gets us past the confusion of remembering what button to press and teaches a nice quick workflow.

[MRUStudios]

Wow! This looks super cool! I never knew it was possible to create something like this in Blender. I learn so much about the software every day and just how powerful it is, and even more so with all of the helpful and fantastic plugins available.

Your work looks fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing and showing how this is done!

I hope you have a fantastic rest of your week! 😃

[kubravar]

I'm very impressed, the colors look perfect. The final product is top quality!

[analogman]

That is the most polished presentation I've seen on YT. I appreciate it and will be working on this today.

[dudleybarker]

the power and versatility of Blender never ceases to astound me - thanks for this amazingly detailed introduction.

[nightgenerator]

WOW this was such a great tutorial, thank you! I have used Blender for projects a few times a year since 2005 or so, and never really looked into the grease pencil. I'm really inspired to play around with it now.

[LovelyLori]

This is incredible! I've never opened up blender in my life but I was mesmerized through this entire video. The end result is so pretty I wanted to see every step of it

[maximilianstarling]

If you are having trouble with the fill tool, just increase the "precision" value.

[raymondcarlomaata]

You're the best beginner guide in Grease pencil. Bless you Sir.