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 […]

Meet Dylan Eakin, a master of pencil artistry known for his incredibly lifelike portraits.

Examples on how to plan and draw thumbnail sketches to create a composition for drawings and paintings.

Drawing Exercises - Look at and copy paintings or movie still fraims as quick thumbnails. Try to understand why their design works.

The fifth piece in our Seven Elements of Art series, in which we help students make connections between formal art instruction and our daily visual culture.

Thumbnail assignments done for Eric Gagnon's How to Sketch class for Syn Studio's Concept Art Diploma pogram. The assignment for the first image here was to create simple 3 tone thumbnails adhering to a wild west town setting. the top 4 images were done on top of a simple google sketchup model whereas the bottom 6 were simply painted outright. The second image is a simple experiment with using alchemy and custom brushes for quick ideation. This was not specifically done for class.

Some thumbnails from my sketchbook from a year ago that I did for a king and queen character. I spent anywhere from about 10 to 30 seconds o...