Introduction

Already made strokes can not be selected in Draw Mode, for editing strokes you must usethe orSculpt Mode.

3D View Mode selector: Draw Mode.

Draw Mode is selected with the Mode menu in the 3D Viewport header.Once Draw Mode is activated, the Toolbar of the 3D Viewport will change to Draw Mode specific panels.Also a circle with the same color as the active material will appear andfollow the location of the cursor in the 3D View.

To create new strokes you have to select one of the drawing tools in the Toolbar.The most common one is the for free-hand drawings but there are many other tools for drawing, filling areas and erasing strokes.There are also some tools to create primitives shapes like lines, arcs, curves, boxes and circles.

Drawing in a 3D space is not the same as drawing on a flat canvas.When drawing with Grease Pencil you have to definethe location and orientation of the new strokes in the 3D space.

3D View header Controls for strokes.

The Stroke Placement selector defines the new strokes location in 3D space.

See Stroke Placement for more information.

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Different Guides types can be activated to assist you when drawing new strokes.

See Guides for more information.

General drawing options.

• Draw on Back
• Add Weight Data
• When enabled, weight data is added to new strokes according to the current vertex group and weight.If there is no vertex group selected, no weight data is added.

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• Additive Drawing