Primitives

Reference

Mode:Object Mode and Edit Mode
Menu:Add ‣ Grease Pencil
Hotkey:Shift-A

In Object Mode, the Add Grease Pencil menu, provides three different Grease Pencil primitives:

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Grease Pencil primitives.

Blank

Adds a Grease Pencil object without any stroke.

Stroke

Adds a Grease Pencil object with a simple stroke as a reference.

Monkey

It creates a 2D monkey head. The Monkey’s name is « Suzanne » and is Blender’s mascot. 2D Suzanne is very useful as a standard test.

Note

Materials and 2D Layers

Adding primitives also adds a set of preset materials and 2D layers to help start drawing with the new object.