Blender Grease Pencil: Draw, Animate & Create 2D Art in a 3D World

Want to make fun 2D animations in Blender but not sure where to start?

Maybe you’ve tried Grease Pencil and found it confusing - or you’d love to add hand-drawn flair to your 3D scenes but don’t know how.

This course breaks it all down step by step, helping you create simple, expressive animations (no drawing skills required!) and unlock the creative power of Blender’s Grease Pencil.

Blender’s Grease Pencil is an amazingly fun tool that lets you draw, animate, and create expressive 2D art inside a full 3D world. You can even sketch directly onto 3D objects to blend 2D and 3D in creative new ways.

Because it can do so much, Grease Pencil can feel a bit intimidating at first. That’s why this course takes a simple, step-by-step approach - with fun projects, small challenges and a clear sense of progression to help you build skills and confidence as you go.

It’s perfect for beginners to both Grease Pencil and Blender as a whole. You don’t need to be an artist, the projects are designed to be fun and achievable for anyone. All you need is a sense of curiosity (and ideally a graphics tablet, though a mouse works too).

You’ll start by getting set up and learning the essentials like brushes, layers and materials. Then how to refine your strokes in Edit and Sculpt modes, which makes Blender’s Grease Pencil so unique.

After that it’s straight into creating. You’ll draw a series of simple, fun projects from bouncing balls and colourful fish to quirky faces, cheeky cats and weird worms - learning animation basics along the way.

You’ll discover how to animate efficiently, using shortcuts and automatic in-betweens to save time, and how to tidy up your work for smooth results. You’ll even explore rigging with bones to make your own moving characters, from a dancing worm to a car cruising down the road.

As you progress, you’ll add sound and simple lip-syncing, then dive into the real magic of Grease Pencil - drawing inside 3D spaces. You’ll build a small 3D scene, then paint directly onto the objects to create a unique blend of 2D and 3D that feels hand-crafted and full of charm.

By the end, you’ll have a collection of animated art pieces and a solid understanding of how to use Blender’s Grease Pencil for both 2D and 3D projects. You’ll be ready to bring your imagination to life and make a few wonderfully weird creations along the way.

Join the Blender Grease Pencil course today and start sketching, animating and experimenting in a whole new dimension.