Learning the Grease Pencil in Blender: 151 Essential Tools, Tips, and Shortcuts for Beginners

This video is for beginner Grease Pencil users in Blender. We cover a variety of topics including Draw Mode, combining 2D & 3D and useful add-ons.
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00:00 - Introduction
Chapter 1: Draw Mode
00:54 - Downloading Blender
01:22 - Downloading Blender Experimental
02:19 - New File - 2D Animation
02:24 - 2D Viewport (or Canvas)
02:33 - Outliner Panel
02:42 - Properties Panel
02:52 - Dope Sheet
03:01 - The 6 Different Modes
03:13 - The 8 Default Brushes
03:26 - The 4 Default Materials
03:39 - Data Object Properties
03:50 - Material Properties
04:30 - Adjusting Layer Visibility
04:44 - Adding a New Material
04:48 - Adding a Fill Material
05:03 - Moving the Material Order
05:10 - Locking a Material to a Certain Brush
05:29 - Changing the Material Color
05:36 - Fill Styles
05:54 - Fill Gradient Settings: Blend, Flip Colors, Adjusting Location, Rotation and Scale
06:03 - Material Preview
06:13 - Color Attribute
07:08 - Adjusting Radius
07:16 - Use Pressure
07:31 - Adjusting Strength
07:40 - Caps Type
07:54 - Adding a New Layer
08:01 - Advanced Dropdown
08:49 - Stroke Dropdown
10:44 - Stabilize Stroke (Shift)
11:40 - Draw Strokes on Back
12:05 - Add Weight Data for New Strokes
13:02 - Use Additive Drawing
13:48 - Onion Skinning
15:00 - Back to Additive Drawing
15:23 - Multiframe
16:48 - Stroke Placement
17:18 - Turning on Axes
17:38 - Canvas Reference Panel
18:15 - Turning on the 3D Cursor
18:25 - Moving the 3D Cursor
18:49 - Stroke Placement - Surface
19:52 - Stroke Placement - Stroke
20:13 - ~ (Shortcut) To Change the View
21:25 - Drawing Planes
22:54 - Enable Guides
23:43 - Selectability & Visibility
23:55 - Viewport Gizmos
24:12 - Viewport Overlays
24:25 - Draw Grease Pencil
24:56 - Perspective vs. Orthographic Camera View
25:20 - Snapping Shortcut
25:26 - Erasing a Stroke
26:08 - Autolock Inactive Layers & Shortcut to Erase a Stroke
26:48 - Filling a Stroke
26:55 - Tint Tool
27:25 - Cutter Tool
27:53 - Eyedropper Tool
28:05 - Drawing Tools
29:48 - Gap Closure
30:50 - Showing all Layers
31:24 - Assigning Colors
33:03 - Masks
34:13 - Blending Modes
34:26 - Adjusting Opacity
34:36 - 2D Modifiers
37:16 - 2D Effects
Chapter 2: Object Mode
38:28 - Opening a Recent File
38:49 - Viewport Shading
39:39 - Use Lights Option
39:53 - Origin Point
40:27 - Transform Orientations
41:13 - Shortcut (.) to change the Pivot Point
41:45 - Shortcuts G, R & S
41:02 - Annotate
42:30 - Measure
42:44 - Adding a Cube Mesh
43:35 - (T) Toolbar + (N) Sidebar
43:50 - Adjusting the Camera
44:42 - View, Select, Add and Object Menus
Chapter 3: Edit Mode
45:31 - Lasso Tool
45:50 - Grease Pencil Menu
46:00 - Duplicating a Stroke
46:13 - Points, Stroke & Points Between Other Strokes
46:31 - Shortcut 1, 2 and 3
46:41 - Curve Editing
47:23 - (E) Extrude
47:41 - (Alt +S) Radius Tool
48:00 - Clean Up
48:21 - Clean Up: Merge By Distance
Chapter 4: Sculpt Mode
48:53 - Sculpting Tools
Chapter 5: Vertex Paint
49:53 - Vertex Painting
50:33 - Blur Tool
50:45 - Average Tool
50:55 - Smear Tool
51:08 - Replace Tool
Chapter 6: Weight Painting
51:33 - Weight Painting Overview
Chapter 7: More Shortcuts
52:28 - Tab (Toggle Between Modes)
53:16 - S (Scale)
53:26 - R (Rotate)
53:57 - Adjusting Camera Resolution
54:30 - Changing Background Colors
55:11 - Shift + A (To Add)
55:34 - Snapping
56:07 - Z (Changing Shading)
56:24 - F (Adjust Brush Radius)
56:34 - Shift + F (Brush Strength)
57:09 - / (Isolate Individual Object)
57:22 - U (Change Active Material)
57:32 - Y (Change Active Layer)
57:50 - Split Screen
58:13 - Object Constraints
59:56 - Adjusting Workspaces
1:00:26 - Save Start-up File vs. Load Factory Settings
1:00:53 - Link
1:01:30 - Append
1:02:37 - Depth of Field
1:03:52 - Adding Textured Brushes
Chapter 8: Animating
1:05:32 - What is a Keyframe?
1:05:49 - Duplicating a Keyframe
1:06:24 - Interpolate
1:06:58 - Frame by Frame
1:07:10 - Interpolation Sequence Options
1:08:12 - I (Interpolation Menu)
1:08:29 - Shift + Left/Right (Move to the First/Last)
1:08:40 - B (Box Select), C (Circle Select)
1:08:50 - A (Select Everything), Alt + A (Deselects Everything)
1:09:00 - G (Grab Keyframe)
1:09:24 - S (Scale Timeline)
Chapter 9: Combining 2D & 3D
1:09:36 - Trace An Image to Grease Pencil
1:11:55 - Convert to Path
1:14:46 - Convert to Bézier Curve
1:16:13 - Align Active Camera to View
1:16:24 - Scene Line Art
1:17:02 - Collection Line Art
1:17:33 - Object Line Art
1:17:48 - Alt + S, Alt + R, Alt + G
1:18:26 - Combining Sculpting and Grease Pencil
Chapter 10: Grease Pencil Add-Ons and Resources
1:19:18 - Geometry Nodes
1:20:23 - Easy HDRI
1:22:13 - Images As Planes
1:23:04 - NijiGPen: Grease Pencil Add-on
1:23:20 - Grease Pencil From Mesh
1:23:35 - Storypencil
1:23:53 - Deep Paint Add-On
1:24:13 - Blender Market
1:24:27 - Blender Reference Manual
1:24:54 - Blender Developer Forum
1:25:30 - RUclipsrs to Follow
1:26:12 - Grease Pencil Resources
1:26:48 - Saving a Blend File
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[@abdulmoeed7143]

Best wishes for you, I learn too much from your videos.
God gives you unlimited blessings 🙏

[@RahulPradipPatil]

This is very Helpful, Thank you :)

[@jjanneanthony]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@brandoonf6962]

Do you recommend I watch this or your 30 day challenge playlist first?

[@jjanneanthony]

Good question! I would recommend the 30-day challenge first (because it's less overwhelming plus exercises) then this video.

[@brandoonf6962]

@@jjanneanthony kk thanks