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Thumbnail drawing

Thumbnail drawing - Illustrator Tutorial

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Thumbnail drawing

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- All the information we've gathered from discovery and research, is now going to inform us as we move into thumbnail drawing. This is a critical stage of the creative process. You don't want to skip it, you want to do it well to produce your best design. I'm using simple tools; a pencil, a pen, paper, tracing paper, a mechanical pencil and eventually a light pad. This is best showing then explain, so let's dive into it. As you approach thumbnail sketching, as you initially start drawing, I would avoid using a pencil, I would use a pen instead, and the whole purpose of using a pen is it's very unforgiving. It's not going to allow you to edit your idea, you can't erase it, and you don't need to be refining things at this stage. It's all about mining, it's all about getting ideas out of your head and onto paper and doing it quickly. They don't have to be precise drawings. One aspect that I do at this stage of the creative…

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