Blender 2D/3D for beginners, drawing and animating with greasepencil (blender 2.8) - Part 1/2

Hi ! This step by step tutorial is suited for 2D digital illustrators/animators and also 3D animators who want to try 2d animation. I hope you'll like it !

Summary of part 1 :
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Discover the upcoming features
01:25 Basics of blender
03:10 The 3D cursor
06:12 Configuring the pen tablet
07:27 Navigating with your pen
07:49 Creating the drawing, the greasepencil object
10:13 Image size and background color
11:03 Important : adjust color management
12:47 First 3D doodle
21:36 Introducing the Sculpt tools
23:21 Drawing in edit mode
24:46 Other types of erasers
25:10 The cissors (cut tool)
25:34 Editing and adjusting the smoothness of your curves
26:57 Adding colors
30:12 Faster paint tools
31:42 Adding some volume
33:35 Adding helpers to switch position
37:40 Side and top of the box
42:03 Layers depth order modes
44:44 Adding other greasepencil objects in different angles
50:42 Step 1's final image. Quick tip on how to export your artwork

Part 2 :

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[dedouze]

Important update : 1) if your colors look weird, in the layers panel you'll need to uncheck "use lights" at the bottom of the layers list, for each layer, just under the blend mode and opacity. This option is used if you have lights sources close to your drawing, to make it affect the color.
2) if your canvas is hidden behind the cube, dont worry you will see in the next step how to move it. For now, just hide the cube with the eye icon in the outliner
4) If your paint bucket doesnt work, it probably has the intermediary gap auto-fill. It means that it works only two clicks. After the first click you can adjust the gaps with the mouse wheel, and then click a second time to paint
5)At the drawing introduction, if the canvas grid is hidden under the cube for your blender version, you can temporarily hide the cube in the outliner in top right list, by clicking on the eye icon for the cube

[thisisajoke]

This dude talks in lowercase with a light grey font.

[ReynoldSparkton]

thank you so much, this is very helping French Michael Jackson.

[dreamparacite]

Heads up: If you are using Blender 2.83+ grease pencil is now affected by lighting, so if you are at the step where you add fill color to the scene and it looks off that is why. You can disable lighting on each layer by unchecking "Use lights" or for the whole grease pencil object by going into Object Properties (Orange box) on the right and under Visibility uncheck "Use Lights"

[exyl_sounds]

wait you made that blender start up artwork? HOW

[CorpseTongji]

finally someone walking regular artists through the absolute hell labyrinth that is blender

also your tone of voice is so soothing

[SirisLayer]

"What is this. Where is this. Why is there a 3D Cube. What is the purpose of my life?"

I felt that.

Awesome video. Thanks so much

[dedouze]

At the drawing introduction, if the canvas grid is hidden under the cube for your blender version, you can temporarily hide the cube in the outliner in top right list, by clicking on the eye icon for the cube

[RuthwikRao]

imagine opening Blender every time and seeing your work as the splash screen, lol that's some prime achievement in my eyes so kudos there. :)
I'm glad this is finally out, thank you! Can't wait to dig in and figure my way through GP, feel like a lot of us would wanna start using it in our work in the coming days.
PS regarding the emulate 3 button mouse overriding your loop selection, you can then just double click on the component to select the loops, just like in Maya.

[skybyteme]

The tutor kid at the lower right is so cute hahaha

[babdie]

Your voice reminds me of my grandma softly comforting me in childhood when I fell of the bike

[oishiiyum]

just a note: if your canvas is not showing on top of the cube, click the button with the two boxes next to the canvas checkbox/slider ("Canvas X-Ray")! ^_^

[AtenaHena]

literally waiting for this forever thank you

[dedouze]

To people saying "use empties instead of boxes for the 3D cursor" ... The problem with the empties is that you need to leave your drawing tool, switch to object mode, then select the empty, then press shift+S, put 3D cursor to selected, go back to the greasepencil object, switch to draw mode.... And continue to draw. With the boxes, while you draw, you just press shift + Right click on them, and don't even need to leave the drawing tool :-). As an illustrator, i know that leaving the pen just to reposition a cursor is very bad for the creation workflow... So with this technique, you just need to place the boxes once for all

[odette]

there is honestly no way you have given this to us free, thank you so much

[wearetheremakes]

30:39 when he says hold control, for me it was shift for me. Was stumped for a bit on this, just commenting in case this helps anyone else.

[RNoctowl]

3K likes 0 dislike, _A perfect balance, all things should be._

[Nicko]

I've used Blender for a while but have always been a little bit bewildered by the grease pencil. This tutorial was a total revelation, incredibly comprehensive, detailed, and very friendly and accessible. Thank you so much Dedouze!

[kodomo_in_neverland]

for those with problems adding colors when it looks darker than expected, it's probably because you didn't uncheck "use light" in the layer you are using. Great tutorial and I love your voice.

[jeggzzzz]

Best part here is that since it's your first tutorial, you also have a very efficient fundamental overview for new users. It's pretty straightforward. I wish that I had this when I was learning years ago. Thank you!