To ensure that the New Green Leaf Stroke is always linked to the New Brush you may Pin the

Stroke to the Brush. You will see, in the Stroke selection menu, that all the Stroke options will be

grayed out. You cannot select a different Stroke for New Brush and since New Stroke is using

Style: Texture you cannot alter the color.

All Strokes Grayed Out

No color selection

Figure 4.16

Click to Pin

This explains why you cannot select a different Stroke when you have selected the F Airbrush or

the F Pencil Soft Brushes. They have Pinned Strokes with Mode type: Dots and Style: Solid,

Color: Black. In either of these cases you can alter the Stroke color since a texture is not being

used.

4.5 Downloading and Appending Brushes

An alternative to creating your own New Brushes is to download a Brush Pack from the internet.

One source is: Pepland_brush_pack_V1.zip. Go to:

https://cloud.blender.org/p/gallery/5ccfe64353b85e279cf72acd

At this address, scroll down to find a video tutorial describing how to Import Brushes into the

Grease Pencil for Blender 2.8 (Beta). Below the video tutorial is a Download link. The download

gets you the Pepland_brush_pack_V1.zip file. Unzip the file using WinRar or 7-Zip to a folder.

The unzipped file produces pepland_GP_Brush_pack_V1.blend which is a Blender file.

Elements from one Blender

file may be Appended into

another Blender file.

Figure 4.17

In Blender with the Grease

Pencil opened, click File in the

Screen header and select Save

As in the menu that displays.

Navigate to where you want to

save the file, give the file a new

name

and

click

Save

As

(Figure 4.18 over). This gives

you a copy of the Grease pencil

start up file in which to work .

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