Grease Pencil is a set of vector drawing tools, named for the easily erased pencils used in the days of animating on paper. Before diving into animation, we'll use these drawing tools to their maximum potential to illustrate an alien hero that will utilize all the layers, brushes, effects, and modifiers that Grease Pencil has to offer. This kind of avatar drawing is used as concept art for 3D models, or as an illustration for science fiction projects as a planetary representative. Creating concept art will let you master the brush and layer interfaces, and emulate the styles of rough pencil, clean ink, and color palettes:

To draw and paint the character, the best process starts with broad idea, gathering reference images, and sketching lots of thumbnails. Once a direction is clear, we&apos...