Sketching Thumbnails

Sketching

• traditional sketching with your favorite method, paper/pencil
  • Or use a digital tool like iPad
• Sketching Thumbnails/Layouts
• Sketching Final drafts

Using iPad

• Adobe Sketch

This is a thumbnail of 15 pages with Adobe Sketch on iPad. Drawings from paper sketches are imported. This is not a final sketch yet. The sketches are placed at the top left-hand corner of each page.

thumbnail sketches

• characters
• other objects
• reference of pictures
• make workspace thumbnail for design
• copy and make it bigger - zoom in for a comp
• then draw final sketches

Illustrate the words

• If pagination of manuscripts is done, you can begin to illustrate the words with your art skills.
• the pagination is important. If it changes, the overhead time to re-work illustrating is so much.

Make Thumbnail Sketches

• illustrating the main idea
• speedy to evaluate the entire book
• it allows you *** to design*** each image. Here, design means not to complete the final sketches with color. Plan, organize and arrange the images in harmony.
• The goal of thumbnail sketches is to plan the entire illustration using simple shapes
• start with a small one, and you can easily enlarge it on Photoshop or iPad.
• and copy & paste each thumbnail to each PSD file.

Layouts

• Vertical
• Square
• Horizontal
• Bleed for printing on paper
• repeat at least 3 times
• simple area for text

Patterns

• the whole illustration left, text right
• a text area runs on the illustration
• a text under the illustration
• the whole illustration left, text with sport on the right
• spread and spot, free form, spread art, text around the illustration