How to do awesome illustrations EVERY time!

Lee White

@sigross very nice! I'll be doing a video on how to pick the right thumbnail soon. Not sure if anyone struggles with that, but I have some theories on it. : )

Elinore Eaton

@Lee-White Really looking forward to that video! Sometimes, the more I thumbnail, the more overwhelmed I get with options.

peteolczyk

my 50 thumbnails. Thanks Lee
I’m finding this lesson incredibly helpful.

Aaron_T

Putting in the time to work out the thumbnails would definitely save me a ton of clean up time in the later stages. Great tips.

Susan Marks

@Lee-White Thanks-I've been wondering about the comment "well it was hard until I got my process down"--just what's the process. And you spelled it out.

As a still a beginner-it's so helpful to have a map. I think lots of the questions and suggestions here will give you a nice list of topics for the lotsa-more videos I hope you make.

Whitney Simms

How many studies and thumbnails when you don't really care and the bar is set extremely low. Like, when you are designing a cross country t-shirt for your kid's team because you would rather buy that than the one at Walmart. And now you are selling them as a fun raiser. Way to step up and be a picky mom. Dang it. should've been happy with the Walmart shirt. For the record, I have printed out 24 outlines and will have the perfect coloring and design before bed. Way to be the voice in our heads @Lee-White !!!

BichonBistro

@Whitney-Simms what were you thinking

Laurasketches

@Lee-White A question: what if you happen upon a particular visual image (as opposed to an idea, or line of text) that you are wanting to create... do you still go through 50 thumbnails? As in observing the image from every point of view?

Lee White

@Laurasketches That's a good question and I'll be answering that in the next video. : )

Perrij

I really enjoyed this video, Lee!! I'm going to try and put it into practice

demotlj

In preparing for Inktober I decided to use the 50 thumbnails approach except with text, writing down 50 things that came to mind for each prompt word. It was hard but I admit, after I wrote down the obvious things I had to do more mental work (and googling) and came up with many more ideas than I would have otherwise. Now I’ll have to do 50 thumbnails of whichever ideas I choose. Yikes! I may not be done with Inktober until March but it was a really good strategy and stretched my creative muscles.

LauraA

@BichonBistro I know what you mean. Sometimes I do a thumbnail that I think is great, but when I get to roughs, it makes no sense anatomically or in terms of perspective. It's just too abstract! And then when I fix it, it loses its charm.

But in general, I really like pushing it on the thumbnails, like we did in Turbocharging Your Creativity. I've subscribed, and will listen ASAP because this is a great topic! Welcome to the world of YouTube creators, @Lee-White!

Whitney Simms

@BichonBistro right! What did i get myself into!!!

chrisaakins

@peteolczyk Haha love the hash marks.

Whitney Simms

Not 50. But I pushed myself more than I normally would’ve. And when it’s on the line, I can totally see how this process will totally help!

jthomas

So this is a big sticking point for me when creating any work that pushes past a sketch level design.. But I wonder how does this apply to comics? Comics are single still illustrations that convey moment to moment actions and I cant see myself even attempting to do 50 thumbnails for say a single panel.

Any thoughts on this? @Jake-Parker @Lee-White ?

I would think limiting them so you aren't spending weeks on a single panel

carlianne

@Lee-White I'm wondering for a full 32 page children's book. Do you do 50 thumbnails for each page separately or as a whole?

So for example, do you mock up what text is going on which page, and then thumbnail each page individually 50 times? Or do you thumbnail out the full book, and then do that fifty times? So the text might also move to a different page as you re-thumbnail?

demotlj

In spite of my thinking that I didn’t have the creativity to come up with 50 thumbnails, I tried it today for a simple line and wash of butterflies on a bee balm plant. I thought I had a good image in my head but when I started doing thumbnails suddenly the possibilities piled up - number of plants, number of butterflies, angles, postures. It only took 1/2 hour to do 50 quick thumbnails but will definitely result in a better picture than the one I was going to do. I apologize to @Lee-White for doubting him!

Lee White

@carlianne @jthomas I'll be addressing this in my next video. : )

MichaelaH

@Lee-White Will You be posting on youtube regularly at some time (liek monthly or weekly) or more spontaneously?