Creative Techniques for Cover Illustration

Overview

“We’ve found an idea or two that we like, so let’s explore how to show it by drawing little thumbnail-sized sketches. This is a great and fast way to play and imagine how the illustration could be designed.”

In this video lesson Julia Breckenreid addresses the topic: Thumbnail Sketches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Techniques for Cover Illustration. Learn to draw, paint, and retouch original illustrations filled with visual metaphors, from the initial sketch to the finished edit.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Thumbnail Sketches Now, I'll take you through the thumbnail stage that I always go through. They're called thumbnails because they're small and it allows you to do very quick explorations of the entire composition and different ideas that you have without spending a lot of time. As you can see, what I have here is very simple. There's no detail. It's an indication of the size of the body or a particular part. Let me take you through what I was thinking. Going off of the idea of the brave little tailor being a knight, I'm trying different ways to explore what that could look like. I've dra...”

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Course summary for: Creative Techniques for Cover Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (35)
• 648 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 15m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Painting, Traditional illustration