Fantasy animal field guide page - 2D grease pencil painting

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Here is the final piece! It was made entirely in Blender - painted with grease pencil, with the fonts being added in Blender as well.

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I’ve been really enjoying getting back into creature design and making these mock nature journal pages. This is just a personal piece I made in between commissions.

If you’d like to see more of my work, you can find all my links and social media here: https://www.sophiejantak.com/

Thanks for checking out my work :slight_smile:

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Very convincing. I love seeing what the imagination can come up with.

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thank you! :slight_smile:

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Very cool!

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I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!

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Ahh yes i already found you on YT… a totally different way of using blender. Thanks for teaching me. Even if i didn’t used the new grease pencil tools (i more know the old one which was more like the annotate tool)…

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You’re on the #featured row! :+1:

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Oh my gosh! So beautifulll

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Hey cool, in Blender

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Go to Sophie’s Youtube channel for the best grease pencil tutorials.
Stay for the giant smile she paints on your face!

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This is awesome ! all with grease pencil ? can you show a wireframe to get an idea of the linework ? I’m super curious. I didn’t think it possible to obtain this kind of result. Did you use textured strokes ?

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Amazing concept, I really love it :slight_smile: Please keep it up with more fantasy creatures.

Maybe you could do flora as well, not just fauna, if not already :slight_smile:

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You have to look at her YouTube channel! Really ! You have to (and any body else).

And i’m always struggleing: Do i use Gimp or Krita the next time i have to manipulate an image… NOOO just use you favorite app: Blender for everything… Well it also has a text editor… :wink:
Okay i’m getting a little overexited and not ever. But to be honest i newer open a new file in another mode/template than General… and 2D Animation is essential a animateble drawing app… :star_struck:… i did know Blender is bigger than i know… but soo muchhh bigggerrr … :sweat_smile:

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This is an extraordinary piece of work, and a brilliant use of textured brushes. Great work!

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I’m glad you like it! Yes all with grease pencil. Here is what it looks like in wireframe (with my anatomy studies visible just outside of the camera, haha)

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Getting this kind of look is all about having LOTS of very small strokes (in my experience). I don’t use textured strokes, but I do use a lot of image textures which I then paint on top of - in a sort of collage style. This video explains my process with that :slight_smile:

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thank you! :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the breakdown. The wireframe itself looks really rad !

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I love this, It’s so beautiful.

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Thank you! :slight_smile:

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Congratulations, this work has been nominated for the ‘Best of Blender Artists 2022’ award in the #animals category! You can vote for it here.