Thumbnail sketches

Sheep Shearing thumbnails One of six 8 1/2" x 11" pages I filled with drawings Howard Pyle taught his students that every painting should ...

These videos explain and demonstrate the process of how thumbnail sketches work within the artistic process. ‘ There are many benefits of thumbnail sketches: they can save you time when working on a final piece of artwork and allow you to explore more options for composition. The demonstration shows simple strategies on how to crop […]

Thumbnail sketches, fast drawings, shorthand for artists

Sketch 1 (limit 3 values) for comp sketchbook

Graphic Design, Advertising, Sketching, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop

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Effective and fun exercise 🔥 Probably my favorite. ✨Draw quick thumbnails✨ Thumbnail is a miniature, a doodle, a rough quick sketch. ✍️ Draw several rectangular frames on your page and sketch several objects around you in them, without thinking about aesthetics. Quickly, in 1-5 minutes. Then you can draw from your photos, from the show you are currently watching, from photos from the Internet, from your favorite board on Pinterest. We are not chasing perfection they will look beau...

Here is another snapshot of my thumbnail project. I wanted to go with the cordycep/foliage theme. Each sketch was timed for 1 minute.

A blog about the life of Susan Black, a freelance designer and illustrator living the good life in a tiny seaside village in Nova Scotia.

I decided to upload select pages from one of my sketchbooks because my friend Georgi (https://www.artstation.com/calader) pushed me to upload a few of these. Finally had the time to go through it and scan some of the better ones, otherwise most of the sketchbook is just a mess of lines and ideas.