In fact, looking back, I added too much detail to the fur of the neck. I focus on big shapes, as detail will be drawn on top with grease pencil. I used the snakehook tool and would hold shift to occasionally smooth out areas. My sculpting process is constantly changing, but for this piece all the meshes started as spheres and I sculpted using dynamic topology. So in addition to recreating this piece in 3D with grease pencil, I also used dozens of reference images to try to get a more realistic tree wolf. I’m still very proud of it, but since then I’ve studied animal anatomy a lot more closely and… well, let’s just say I can see how much I didn’t know at the time. I made this illustration at the start of 2019: The final result is a beautiful crisp, smooth 2D animation with enormous potential in other applications and projects.I have a long history of Red Riding Hood retellings – they’re all different, but for some reason they always involve a giant tree wolf.

Animate your character waving: Add a touch of life to your character rigging with a looping hand wave.

Also learn how to assign elements of your drawing to those bones.

Adding a simple armature: Take advantage of Blender rigging to create a simple armature object featuring 2 bones that serve to move a character's arm.

How to draw a 2D Grease Pencil character: From rough sketch to refined lined art, learn about Grease Pencil's drawing tools like layers, fills, stroke sculpting and materials, including how to add simple shadow and highlight layers.

Learn how to Draw, Rig and Animate a 2D Character with Grease Pencil in Blender In this short course, follow Wayne Dixon through this simple project that combines a hand-drawn 2D character with a 3D rig for easy animation. But Grease Pencil in Blender merges them into the same application and even allows their tools to blend together into an extremely effective hybrid system.

Often 2D animation and 3D animation exist as their own unique art forms, aesthetics, tools and apps. Experience the potential of rigged Grease Pencil characters in Blender 2D animation

Blender grease pencil tutorials