Greasepencil

antonvdh · February 20, 2025, 1:00pm

I can not see my drawing When i select object mode there is no draw mode.
What did I do wrong.
Need help

Greasse Pencil 3.6 LTS

kyrgr · February 20, 2025, 1:52pm

Stroke is an Empty instead of a Grease Pencil object so it does not have Draw mode.

antonvdh · February 20, 2025, 3:30pm

When i add grease pencil stroke you see I am getting a new stroke with my colors why is my stroke gone?
pluto2.blend (1.0 MB)

kyrgr · February 20, 2025, 3:57pm

There is no Grease Pencil object in your file, add one. You have not packed external data either so all we see is a purple plane. When you add new stroke at a different frame if you have autokeying (the blue circle) on you create a new Grease Pencil keyframe and from now on previous strokes do not show as they are stored in the previous keyframe. Or you can use additive drawing to accumulate strokes through time (i use 4.0 and it is next to draw mode).

antonvdh · February 20, 2025, 4:15pm

Sorry but the external data is just a background image. The stroke and colors are in the blend file. But where is my greasepencil drawing. Are you familair with greasepencil or blender.

TerraSkilll · February 20, 2025, 4:41pm

Like kyrgr said, you don’t have a grease pencil object on your file. The pen you’re seeing is from the annotation tool.

The object indicated by the arrow is not a grease pencil object. You need to add one, via the menu or using Shift+A while in object mode:

The you’ll have a GP object in the file:

And can select it and change into Draw Mode:

antonvdh · February 20, 2025, 4:44pm

Here is the blend file with the external data it is just a background image
When I added a new grease-pencil stroke you immediately see the materials.
pluto2.blend (1.6 MB) But what I gave draw is gone ?

TerraSkilll · February 20, 2025, 4:49pm

Your GP object is hidden in the viewport (the eye icon is closed in the right side):

Making it visible by clicking on the eye shows the stroke in the viewport:

And you can change to draw mode:

Is that what you wanted?

antonvdh · February 20, 2025, 4:52pm

I want the first stroke to see, that is what i have draw.
But it is not visible

Maybe the grease pencil drawing was saved with the image
Then i have deleted it with the image, stupid but its an option .

TerraSkilll · February 20, 2025, 5:06pm

If you found a way, that’s good! You can also start with a clean file, as this ones does not have much beyond the background image.

As a note, you seem to still be confusing what is an what is not a Grease Pencil Object. Just because it is called “Stroke”, does not mean it is a GP object.

antonvdh · February 20, 2025, 5:43pm

Yes that is what i am trying to say.
I know that the stroke with the green pencil icon (,draw)is greasepencil. But where is that one :disappered ?
I can see it when i add a new greasepencil draw. (Shift A then choose greasepencil draw)
Now i have redraw it al again.

kyrgr · February 20, 2025, 7:06pm

Yes, i know a couple of things, just add a Grease Pencil object, naming an empty as “Stroke” will not do anything.
EDIT: I can see the GP in your second upload now, it is hidden in viewport because the eye icon is disabled. What i said in my first post still stands.

antonvdh · February 20, 2025, 10:10pm

This does not explain why my greasepencil draw has disappeared.
I remember now i have made the drawing in blender 4.3 not 3.6 lts. And blender 4.3 has greasepencil 3. Luckely i have a copy of that file i will try that tomorrow.

Yes that was the problem.