Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Is Awesome

I needed to do a top-down draft, a design of something I would be 3D-modeling later, and so I opened up my 2D drawing toolkit, Krita. I bumped the resolution to 5000x5000 pixels, and had to think deeply about it.

The lack of dynamic resolution in such raster based image manipulation programs is saddening. Especially in my drafting process. It's inconvenient to have to worry about blurry details when zooming in too far, or slow stroke rendering/committing when zooming out too much. So, since I already use Blender for practically everything else and was enjoying the quality of life improvements in Blender 2.8 recently, I decided to check out its new 2D (Grease Pencil) tools for kicks. Lo and behold, the lagless, vector-based, infinite resolution, hassle-free zoom, layered, materialed, simple, beautiful 2D workspace of my dreams was before me. Gone are the drafting days of drawing arrows to various scene elements to elaborate on them. Just zoom into them! You can just zoom infinitely and write inside them. The brushes are clean, and customizable. Erasing is instant (use point-erase), and rendering is lagless. And since you're not dealing with raster, there are no complex selections to perform. You can select strokes independently, select their points, move things, scale things, and it takes no time at all. You can sculpt your points, adding or reducing thickness of lines, moving them, adding some fuzziness, simplifying them, and more. It's not just good for drafting, but all drawing comes naturally to it. And you can even extend it to 3D! Draw in 3D, start modeling in 3D. Draw on your 3D models to concept some greebling if your artstyle demands it! It has never felt so easy to me. Blender has always been good at what it does, but it has never felt so exceptionally designed until now. Whether you're designing interfaces or levels, doing 3D graphics work, doing 2D work, or any animation, definitely get into Blender 2.8 and start a new 2D drawing project. It just works!