Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Blender 5 introduces some features that users of Adobe Illustrator will love: a Pen tool and the ability to add sharp corners to bezier curves drawn with that tool. In this video, we go over some Grease Pencil Basics, and how to use these new tools. I answer some questions like: why is my Grease Pencil stroke not black? And why is my Grease Pencil Fill colour transparent?

In this video:

00:24 The new Pen tool (Blender 5)
00:45 Corner Types
01:00 Stroke Thickness
01:07 Corner Sharpness (Blender 5)
01:35 Smoother strokes
01:49 Straight strokes
02:02 Cyclic strokes
02:20 Perfect circle
02:49 Stroke Opacity
03:00 Fill
03:22 Layers
04:09 Separate to new object
04:18 Remove background sketch

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