In this tutorial, I'll show you how to draw this guy in grease pencil and also add two simple bones to be able to do the animation on his arm here. Here's a fun two-day drawing of our beloved Melvin character. This technique was used to create a fun Holiday ad in 2018! The final result is a beautiful crisp, smooth 2D animation with enormous potential in other applications and projects. Animate your character waving: Add a touch of life to your character with a looping hand wave.Also how to assign elements of your drawing to those bones. Adding a simple armature: 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 Blender Character 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 in modern Blender, Grease Pencil merges them into the same application and even allows their tools to blend together into an extremely effective hybrid system. Often in cg, 2D animation and 3D animation exist as their own unique art forms, aesthetics, tools and apps. Experience the potential of rigged Grease Pencil characters

Blender grease pencil tutorials