Digital Illustration Techniques for Engaging Stories
Visualizing Ideas through Thumbnails
A course by Mojo Wang , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: Visualizing Ideas through Thumbnails
Overview
“Now you'll see how I go about visualizing ideas on paper through the use of thumbnails. A single pencil will do. Thumbnails are meant to be loose and shouldn't even make that much sense if you don't need them to. They don't have to be pretty or readable. This process helps you think visually and wire your brain.”
In this video lesson Mojo Wang addresses the topic: Visualizing Ideas through Thumbnails, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration Techniques for Engaging Stories. Learn to transform narratives into meaningful digital art inspired by everyday life through color, line work, layers, and light.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Visualizing Ideas through Thumbnails In the last lesson, I showed you how to create a mood board and get inspired. In this lesson, I'm showing you how to create thumbnails. Thumbnails are teeny tiny drawings that are very loose and don't show much information for you to play around on a piece of paper with loose composition and what images you want to put in your final project. Don't get nervous or intimidated. It's just loose tiny drawings. The point is to have fun. Now I'll show you how to create thumbnails. Get some loose papers, a pencil, or a pen, no matter which tool you are comfort...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration Techniques for Engaging Stories
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration
Mojo Wang
A course by Mojo Wang
Mojo Wang is a self-taught illustrator from China who is currently based in New York City. He started his career as a freelancer before working as a photo editor at ELLEMEN magazine in China. Yearning for more, he moved to New York to study a fine arts masters at SVA, where he redefined his style and learned the value of storytelling through images. Since then, he’s continued to hone his skills and experiment with techniques to grow as an artist, while striking a balance between making a living and enjoying his craft.
The bold colors, sharp linework, and engaging messages in his illustrations have led him to work with major brands like Nike and Kiehl's, as well as a variety of magazines including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Economist, Billboard Magazine, WIRED, and The Wall Street Journal. He has also received multiple awards from the Society of Illustrators and the AI-AP.
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