Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
Thumbnail Sketches (Procreate)
A course by Silja Goetz , Illustrator
About the video: Thumbnail Sketches (Procreate)
Overview
“At this stage, we will find the idea we want to carry further. While sketching and trying out different options it becomes clear which ones could work and which ones won’t. ”
In this video lesson Silja Goetz addresses the topic: Thumbnail Sketches (Procreate), which is part of the Domestika online course: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story. Learn the secrets of conceptual illustration to create an eye-catching book cover using analog and digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Thumbnail sketches I have done now my image research and I've printed out some of the images which I might need later. Here we have the god Anubis again, it's the weighing of the souls. The dead, they have to be weighed if they have been good or if they have been bad. Then here I have a temple which I like particularly because it has a big entrance. Here I have Mia Farrow in this case, Jackie in the movie. And here again, we have the god Anubis, but this time as a statue. Now I'm going to start my thumbnail sketches. If you are going to use pen and paper, that's fine. Just make it a cheap p...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Storytelling, Traditional illustration

Silja Goetz
A course by Silja Goetz
Silja has always loved to draw, and with the encouragement of her parents, she kept it up and decided early on that she wanted to become an illustrator. She studied Communication Design in Nüremberg while working as an illustrator for a magazine about animals for children, along with some work for magazines like Elle and Cosmopolitan.
Silja worked as a layout designer for Allegra Magazine (Germany) for over two years, where she learned to see illustration from an art director’s perspective. After deciding she wanted to create illustrations instead of working with the work of others, she took a leap of faith and moved to Spain, where she started working as a freelance illustrator.
She has worked with press clients like The New Yorker, Elle, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Die Zeit, Outdoor magazine, and more, as well as on advertising projects for clients like Estrella Damm. Her book cover illustrations adorn the books of publishers like Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Gräfe und Unzer, and Doubleday.
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