Pen and pencil effects add a wonderful handcrafted feeling to the pixel world of videos. If you’ve been looking for a way to add more handcrafted artistry to your video production, we’ve got ten terrific After Effects drawing effects to show you today.
Top Drawing Effects Templates for After Effects
Envato Elements offers tons of high-quality After Effects templates, and you can download as many as you want, as often as you want, for one flat monthly fee.
What’s more, that monthly fee also allows you to access thousands of premium digital assets like logos, graphic templates, mockups, photos, business card templates, and much more. Let’s take a look at some of the best pen and pencil effects templates for After Effects available at Envato Elements.
Pencil and Ink Drawing Effects
Here is a fabulous pencil and ink effect that you simply must try. Pencil and Ink Drawing Effects offers eye-catching and dramatic transitions featuring sepia and black drawings of a designated frame of your video. That drawing then fades to the original digital image before an ink blot transition moves viewers to the next drawing. A terrific choice for all sorts of projects.
After Effects Pencil Sketch Template
This striking After Effects pencil sketch template offers a great way to open up a video or reveal a logo. This template requires no plugins and offers full HD resolution.
Sketch After Effects Drawing Effects
Use Sketch After Effects Drawing Effects to create stunning pencil drawings of any aspect of your video. Just select the area of your video that you want to create a sketch of and watch the software do its magic to create a beautiful pencil sketch effect.
Epic Pastel Sketch Opener
Epic Pastel Sketch Opener will turn any content you specify into gorgeous pastel and half-tone images. You have total control over the amount of the effect you want to use, so you decide the final outcome.
Drawing After Effects Template
Looking for an innovative way to introduce your title or text? Then check out Drawing After Effects Template. It uses an animated drawing of a dog to sniff out and reveal your text.
Sketch Logo | After Effects Template
Just to equalise things, we’ve included this sweet pencil animation for the cat lovers out there. It follows a similar principle to the dog animation, but this time the cat is on the trail of your logo, which of course it finds in the end.
Street Art Adobe After Effects
Want to bring that street art vibe to your videos? Then you need to try this Street Art Adobe After Effects template. It allows you to select any aspect of your video, and it will give your selection a cool street art vibe as shown in the example below. There are ten colour presets included, so you can experiment with your colour palette to find the combo you like the most.
Pencil Memories Adobe After Effects Template
Add interesting pencil drawing effect transitions to your video in just a few clicks when you use Pencil Memories Adobe After Effects Template. Not only does the template offer wonderful brush-stroke-inspired transitions, but it also transforms your images after each transition into the most wonderful coloured drawings.
Chalk and Pencil Sketch After Effects
Chalk and Pencil Sketch After Effects is a great way to incorporate chalk and pencil effects into your video. The template provides two logo reveals complete with custom controls that enable you to control the degree of impact the effect has.
Pencil Drawing Parallax Slideshow
This combination of pencil and parallax effect is hard to beat. The unique template creates the feeling of a live drawing as it transitions from one video frame to the next. A great template to use for opening credits.