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The Grease Pencil Interface

• Opening a New 2D Animation preset

• 3D Viewport

• Object Properties

• Material Properties

• Switching Modes

• Toolbox T-Key

• Sidebar N-Key

• Tool settings

• Brush settings

• Dopesheet and Keyframes

Grease Pencil Objects

• Orphan Data and Clean up

• Adding a Grease Pencil Object

• Blank Object

• Stroke Object

• Suzanne Monkey Head Object

• Manipulating Materials

• Sharing Grease Pencil Data

Stroke Placement and Drawing Planes

• Setting placement and Drawing Planes to different settings

• Drawing with different stroke placement and planes settings

• Drawing on a 3D surface

• Drawing set to stroke as target placement

Grease Pencil Layers

• Overview of layers

• Adding/Subtracting layers, and special menus

• Layer properties

• Objects assigned to layers

• Strokes properties

Materials I

• Stroke types

• Line

• Dot

• Square

• Self overlap

• Adding Textures

Materials II - Fills

• Fills types

• Solid

• Gradient

• Edit mode - transform fill tool

• Texture

Brushes I

• Introduction to Brushes

• Brush settings - defaults and editing

• Advanced settings

• Stroke settings

• Saving custom settings

Brushes II

• Add-on - Grease Pencil tools

• Downloading free texture brushes

• Modifying and painting with texture brushes

• Pinning settings

• Materials - automatic addition on the fly

• randomizing settings with vertex coloring

Tools I

• First section

• Draw

• Fill

• Erase

• Cut

Tools II

• Lines and shapes

Edit Mode

• Selection Modes

• Extrude Tool

• Radius Scale Tool

• Proportional falloff settings

• Curve editing tool

Sculpt Mode

• Exploring the sculpt mode

• Thickness brush settings

• Smooth brush settings

• Using selection mask in sculpt mode

• Clone brush settings

• Grab and push brush settings

Guides

• Enabling Guides

• Guide options

• Circular guide settings

• Moving cursor and guides in relation to drawing planes

• Radial guide settings

• Parellel guide settings - including angles and distance

• Grid guide settings - including isometric grids

Vertex Paint I

• Switching to vertex coloring

• Vertex coloring options

• Tinting

• Effecting fills, strokes, strokes and fills

Vertex Paint II

• Eyedropper tool - material creation

• Creating a new palette from selecting and adding

• Organizing the palette

• Creating a palette from an image - eyedropper selection

• Creating a palette from an image - extract palette

• Create palette from a preset palette screengrab

Layer Masking

• Revisiting Holdout Material

• Creating a simple mask

• Enabling and assigning a Mask

• Mask layer visibility

• Mask inversion

• Using existing shapes as masks

• Shortcomings of masking - no compound masks

• Add a texture to an existing material to preserve mask

Grease Pencil Modifiers

• Examining Grease Pencil Modifiers

• Adding an Array Modifier

• Adding a noise modifier

• Applying modifier to selected layer

• Modifier stack order

• Adding a tint modifier

• Using an object to manipulate tint gradient

• Applying modifier to a material

Grease Pencil Effects

• Examining effects list and limitations

• Applying Flip effect

• Applying the rim effect

• Examining rim effect parameters

• Adding a glow effect

• Stacking and moving effects order

• Adding a wave effect

Creating a Bubble - Part I

• Adjusting the preset background and camera

• Editing the layers

• Creating a gradient fill material

• Drawing and positioning a circle with new material

• Adjusting gradient material to center

• Adding a shape, masking out bubble layer

• Adding highlight shapes on layer

• Scaling point radius to make a dynamic outline

Creating a Bubble - Part II

• Saving out a png render

• Setting up a thumbnail

• Creating custom brush

• Using new brush to create thumbnail

• Assigning thumbnail to new custom brush

• Adjusting brush settings for final export

Creating an Underwater Background - Part I

• Searching for references

• Adjusting background as a base color

• Setting up materials

• Drawing the ocean caustics effect

• Creating the surface caustics shape

• Adjusting base material to a gradient

Creating an Underwater Background - Part II

• Adding effects

• Wave distortion setup

• Blur effect setup

• Glow effect setup

• Shadow effect setup

• Adjusting shapes to add extra distortion

• Adjusting effects for final background

Project Prep I - Drawing Tablets and Pressure Sensitivity

• Choosing a Tablet

• Appending custom brushes

• Test Pressure sensitivity

• Customize brushes

Project Prep II - References and Thumbnailing

• Appending supplied custom brushes

• Looking at references

• Sketching thumbnails with custom pencil brushes

• Using keyframes to draw extra thumbnail sheets

Drawing a Mermaid Part I - Sketching

Drawing a Mermaid Part II - Refine Sketch

Drawing a Mermaid Part III - Inking

Drawing a Mermaid Part IV - Coloring I

Drawing a Mermaid Part V - Coloring II

Drawing a Mermaid Part VI - Shading

Drawing a Mermaid Part VII - Highlights

Drawing a Mermaid Part VIII - Painting Bubbles

Drawing a Mermaid Part IX - Lighting

Drawing a Mermaid Part X - Compositing