Editorial Illustration: From Concept to Published Artwork

Overview

“In this lesson, I will give you our brief that we will be working with, and I will talk about what thumbnail sketches are, what clients expect from you, and what you should be thinking about when creating a sketch, showing a few examples of my own professional work.”

In this video lesson Tim Peacock addresses the topic: The Importance of Thumbnail Sketches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Illustration: From Concept to Published Artwork. Learn how to build strong visual concepts and gain a comprehensive understanding of the editorial industry.

Partial transcription of the video

“The Importance of Thumbnail Sketches In this lesson we'll cover what thumbnail sketches are and discuss their importance and how that process with the client works. Now let's go ahead and dive into our assignment. Imagine you just received an email with a brief, and the following information is what we'll use for this project. First of all, we'll be working in both print and digital. The dimensions for this will be flexible, but I want it to be a minimum of 4 inches on each side. That means you could have it be four by six, it could be 4 by 8, it could be a 4 by 4 square, but as long as eac...”

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Course summary for: Editorial Illustration: From Concept to Published Artwork

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (87)
• 2009 students
• 6 units
• 27 lessons (4h 28m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration