Blender Grease Pencil: Draw & Animate 2D Art in a 3D World (Udemy.com)
Discover Blender’s Grease Pencil tool and bring your 2D creations to life inside 3D spaces.
Created by: GameDev.tv Team
Last updated November 2025
What you will learn
- Create 2D animations and artwork directly inside Blender using Grease Pencil.
- Master brushes, layers, materials, and modifiers for expressive results.
- Refine drawings in Edit and Sculpt modes for cleaner, stylised animation.
- Animate quickly with auto in-betweens, shortcuts, and modifiers.
- Rig simple characters with bones for smooth, dynamic motion.
- Draw directly onto 3D objects to blend 2D and 3D in creative ways.
Course Description
Want to make your own 2D animations or hand-drawn art inside Blender?
Grease Pencil lets you draw, animate, and create expressive 2D artwork, all within a full 3D world.
Because it’s so powerful, Grease Pencil can seem intimidating at first. That’s why this beginner-friendly course walks you through it step-by-step, with fun, bite-sized projects that help you build confidence while creating cool stuff from day one.
You don’t need to be an artist - just bring your curiosity (and ideally a graphics tablet, though a mouse works too).
What You’ll Learn
Create fun 2D art and animations directly inside Blender.
Master Grease Pencil’s brushes, layers, materials, and modifiers.
Refine and reshape your drawings in Edit and Sculpt modes.
Animate efficiently with auto in-betweens and smart shortcuts.
Rig characters with bones to make them move, stretch, and dance.
Draw directly onto 3D objects to blend 2D art and 3D worlds.
By the end, you’ll have a collection of animated projects - from bouncing balls and dancing worms to expressive cats, colourful fish and more!
You’ll understand Grease Pencil’s workflow from start to finish and know how to bring your own creative ideas to life in both 2D and 3D.
So whether you’re just starting out and want to create your first 2D animations in Blender, you’re an artist or hobbyist who loves hand-drawn styles and expressive animation, or you’re already a Blender fan ready to explore the fun of mixing 2D and 3D art - this is the course for you!
Join thousands of Blender learners and discover how easy and fun it can be to draw, animate and experiment in a whole new dimension.
Start your Grease Pencil journey today!
Instructor Details
- 4.8 Rating
228 Reviews
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Reviews
By Shannon Howell on 5/8/2026
I actually finished this course! The small project approach worked out really well for me. I feel a lot more confident messing around with grease pencil now.
By Heera Kumar Jha on 3/7/2026
it seems like a focussed and to the point explanation. grease pencil has been avoided by most of the animators that are in fact using blender, so this course is short but i hope it has everything that i would need to work in grease pencil
By Anton Bilal on 2/25/2026
Nicely based. Still early in the course (Udemy likes to prompt users to rate the courses before our short attention spans lead us off to something else, or the work becomes challenging). Learning a lot though. I'm excited to learn more about 2D animation with this instructor.
By Joe Dillett on 1/19/2026
I was able to follow along and do the exercise. I am eighty-two years old with advanced hearing loss and with my new AI advanced hearing aids everything sounds tinny. Your audio is good; your instructions are easy to follow.
By Rakesh Dhanda on 1/15/2026
I already knew Blender 3D. So it was relatively easier for me to understand Blender software than maybe if I were beginner. This is really good course to understand Grease Pencil. Grant Abbit is one of the best blender teacher.
By Ras Hahn on 12/14/2025
Very good pacing. Works very well, if you have already some blender-knowledge, but want to get started with grease-pencil. The chunks are small enough that there is sufficient time to take one in before trying for yourself. What i would like additionally is to learn more about best practices, like answers to the questions like: fill-layer above or below strokes, when to use color-attributes and when materials and so on. On the other hand for a beginner course it is perfectly fine as it is.
By Francisco Dibar on 12/9/2025
Good content, covers many of the tools. Great demonstrations of how a 3d artist works. It's nice that he introduces some mistakes on purpose in order to show how to fix them. Speaks a bit too fast, without pausing between phrases, so I had to constantly pause the video. I bought this course on discount.
By Jeroen Gilhuys on 11/28/2025
Good, solid information given to you in quick and concise chunks. Not too long to get dull, not too short that it feels like we're skipping corners. Still only about half way, but I'm quite happy so far!
By Seev3d on 11/28/2025
easy examples to draw and to understand. Perfect but a little too fast (for a french people) when manipulate dope sheet editor layers which layer which key image and edit mode and after draw mode and mode : color attribute. Big Thanks.
By Kylie Watts on 11/18/2025
Very good course. It was easy to follow given that grease pencil can be quite complicated and it went at a good pace for beginners. It covers more than just drawing with grease pencil and I especially enjoyed the 2d rigging of the cat character
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