Simple Sketch Pro
Turn the scene you already have — your models, your lights, your materials — into clean, stylized line-art renders. Six one-click presets, plus custom styles you save, share, and keep.
// c-1 capsule — an office rendered as black-and-white line art
One click, not an hour of wiring.
Blender already draws line art — Simple Sketch Pro is the difference between wiring it up for an hour and picking a look in one click.
One scene. Six looks. One click each.
The same model — a QuickCurrent solar charging rig — rendered through all six built-in presets. Pick one and SSP sets the materials, world, line art, and color management in a single click.
Save your own looks — and keep them forever.
New in 1.3.0: the six presets are just the start. Turn any setup into a named custom style — material, world, line color and weights, crease angle, sun, and background, captured in one click with its own auto-rendered thumbnail. Your styles sit in the picker right beside the built-ins, in every file you open. Because they live in a folder you control (default Documents/Simple Sketch Pro/) — outside the add-on — updating SSP never touches them.
Six years of line art.
Simple Sketch Pro is the third act of a look this studio has owned since 2019. Sketch Style gave Blender artists SketchUp-style renders until Blender retired the Freestyle renderer underneath it. The free Simple Sketch beta rebuilt the idea on Line Art — 43,000 people watched that video — until Blender's Grease Pencil rewrite broke it too. Simple Sketch Pro combined the best of both legacy products: rebuilt from scratch for the Extensions era, tested in a public beta, and now carrying the line forward with a custom-styles library neither ancestor had. That history is the buyer's guarantee — twice the ground shifted under this product line; twice it was rebuilt rather than abandoned.
Camera view to finished render, six steps.
Install in five seconds
Drag the .zip onto Blender's viewport. The ♥SSP tab appears in the sidebar.
Enter camera view
Blender's Line Art only draws correctly from the camera — SSP gives you a one-click toggle and says so up front.
Pick a look
Choose a preset (or one of your own styles) from the thumbnail picker. SSP sets the materials, world, line art, and color management in one click.
Dial it in
Line color, thick and thin line weights, crease angle, background, sun direction, engine. Per-object toggles keep glass, decals, and booleans reading right.
Render
One button (or F12). Use Lines Only with a transparent background for line work you can drop straight into a comp.
Save the look
One click turns the current setup into a named style with its own thumbnail, sitting in the picker beside the built-ins — in every file you open.
The mechanisms behind the look.
Six one-click presets
Black & White, Clay, Blueprint, Lines Only, Sketch Style, and Comic — each sets materials, world, line art, and color management in a single click.
A real custom-styles library
Save the current look — material, world, line color, thickness, crease, sun, background — as a named style with an auto-rendered thumbnail. Update, rename, duplicate, or delete it. It's a library you build, not a fixed preset list.
Styles that survive updates
Your library lives in a folder you control (default Documents/Simple Sketch Pro/), outside the add-on — updating SSP never touches it. Sync the folder through Dropbox or OneDrive and your styles follow you across machines.
Portable .sspstyle files
Export any style to a single file; import it on another machine or hand it to a teammate. A house style becomes a file you can send.
Thick, thin, and crease control
Separate silhouette and crease lines, each with its own weight and its own viewport/render visibility, plus a crease-angle slider to add or drop interior lines.
Screen Space constant-weight lines
Every line renders at a fixed on-screen width, set in pixels (1–200), no matter how far the object sits from the camera. Built on Geometry Nodes; the panel warns you if no scene camera is set.
Per-object overrides
Show an object in its own material inside any preset (glass, decals), and include or exclude any object from line art — one button each.
Works on your real scene, resets clean
SSP overlays your existing scene and restores it on Reset, removing only SSP-created objects, materials, worlds, and settings. No global purge, ever.
EEVEE or Cycles
Toggle engines from the panel: fast previews or final-quality renders from the same setup. A documented large-scene workflow keeps line art responsive on heavy production files.
Different scenes, different styles.
The hour you don't spend wiring.
Building one of these looks manually means stacking Grease Pencil Line Art modifiers, override materials, a world setup, and color-management changes — then doing it again for the next project. Simple Sketch Pro:
- Sets all of it from one preset click, on your existing scene.
- Saves your own looks as a named, thumbnailed, shareable library — the part you can't get from a hand-built setup without rebuilding it every time.
- Holds line weight constant on screen at any camera distance (Screen Space).
- Tears down cleanly, touching only what it made.
If you used Sketch Style or the free Simple Sketch: those add-ons stopped working when Blender retired Freestyle and rewrote Grease Pencil. Simple Sketch Pro is their maintained successor — the best of both, rebuilt for current Blender, with the styles library neither had. Owners of the originals report their old files render better through SSP than they did in the originals.
What Simple Sketch Pro users say.
“We've been working in the film industry with Blender for many years… Not only is it incredibly simple to use, but the results are fantastic. It's especially valuable for creating quick presentations and concept previews… We spent hours revisiting scenes from our latest film, and every result felt fresh and inspiring.”
“I work in the movie industry making playback graphics and graphic design. This addon was a massive time saver and immediately great results… the line with no BG in particular helps comping blends between renders and line art.”
“So easy to use. No fuss, no muss. You have access to presets that make your workflow a breeze. You get stunning results in an instant.”
“It really only takes a few simple clicks to have your line sketch render ready to go. I love the presets options… my favorite is Blueprint. In a short period of time Simple Sketch Pro has become one of my favorite and most useful tools in my workflow.”
“One of the most important factors on whether I buy an addon is the quality of support from the addon creator. Chipp Walters is second to none.”
Do I have to be in camera view?
Yes. Blender's Line Art only draws correctly from the camera — it's a Blender rule, not an SSP one. The panel has a one-click Toggle Camera View button, and the manual says it before anything else.
Does the Comic preset work in Cycles?
No — Comic is EEVEE-only. The other five presets render in both EEVEE and Cycles.
Will updating SSP wipe my custom styles?
No. Styles live in a folder you control, outside the add-on. Updates never touch it, and Reset never touches it either.
Can I share a style with a teammate?
Yes — export it as a .sspstyle file and they import it. Or point both machines at a synced folder (Dropbox, OneDrive) and share the whole library.
What does Reset actually remove?
Only what SSP created: its objects, collections, materials, worlds, and settings. It no longer runs a global purge, so your own unused materials and node groups are left alone.
Which Blender version do I need?
Simple Sketch Pro ships as a Blender Extension for Blender 5.0 and newer, and works through the latest Blender 5.x release.
I owned Sketch Style or the free Simple Sketch. Is this for me?
Yes — SSP is the maintained successor to both, rebuilt after Blender's Freestyle retirement and Grease Pencil rewrite broke the originals. Your eye for the look carries straight over.
Installed in five seconds.
Buy it, download one .zip, drag the file onto Blender's viewport. That's the install. The ♥SSP tab appears in your sidebar and the first preset is one click away.
One click. Line art. Yours.
Buy it once. Keep it forever.
Simple Sketch Pro is yours to keep — this is not a subscription. One charge of $25 buys the add-on plus a full year of updates and developer support. When the year ends, nothing expires on your machine — SSP keeps working for as long as you use Blender, and your saved styles stay yours. And staying current is cheap: renew for just $10 a year, only when you want the latest.
Support that answers.
Simple Sketch Pro isn't a fire-and-forget download — it's backed by the same support that's stood behind KIT OPS since 2019: an active Discord where a human answers, and a public changelog behind every release.
Render the look you see.
Get Simple Sketch Pro — $25, yours to keep forever, with your first year of updates and developer support included. After that, just $10 a year — and only if you want it.