Nice timing! I was starting into a larger drawing with indian ink and brushes today, but once I got the pencil done I realised I didn’t really know what marks I would make that would suit the fur(baby bison) so I picked up a smaller piece of paper and just did a quick run down to experiment lines and stuff. Very useful to help visualise ideas
Really enjoyed this article. Had my surgery and can’t wait to get home and start putting this article to use. I had thumbnail print painting in one of your classes and this makes it so much clearer.
A fine follow-up to your previous post, offering more substance to the thumbnail method. If I understand correctly, you began by digitally making the frames before transitioning to paper. At what point in the process do you switch? Aside from an occasional pencil sketch, my hobby "art" (in quotes as this buys me creative freedom) is digital. In this environment, the file I begin with is most often my final piece. Placing every element in its own layer, I retouch, stretch etc. each one until it looks right. Upon describing my method in a comment on Gurney Journey, James asked me, "What do you lose?" Evidently, I lose the discipline and training to become a professional artist. Yet as a retired old engineer, this is not of great importance to me. I'm content producing my silly dino cartoons for fun. How can the thumbnail process be adapted digital?
Good question Bob. For some shows it matters whether a piece was created digitally or traditionally, and they are different media with different challenges and advantages, so in that sense the difference matters. Otherwise I mostly treat them the same. The work process could stay digital, or start digital and end in traditional, start traditional and end digital, or cross back and forth several times. Digital isn't necessary at all, of course, just sometimes convenient.
Nice timing! I was starting into a larger drawing with indian ink and brushes today, but once I got the pencil done I realised I didn’t really know what marks I would make that would suit the fur(baby bison) so I picked up a smaller piece of paper and just did a quick run down to experiment lines and stuff. Very useful to help visualise ideas
Really enjoyed this article. Had my surgery and can’t wait to get home and start putting this article to use. I had thumbnail print painting in one of your classes and this makes it so much clearer.
Thank you,
A fine follow-up to your previous post, offering more substance to the thumbnail method. If I understand correctly, you began by digitally making the frames before transitioning to paper. At what point in the process do you switch? Aside from an occasional pencil sketch, my hobby "art" (in quotes as this buys me creative freedom) is digital. In this environment, the file I begin with is most often my final piece. Placing every element in its own layer, I retouch, stretch etc. each one until it looks right. Upon describing my method in a comment on Gurney Journey, James asked me, "What do you lose?" Evidently, I lose the discipline and training to become a professional artist. Yet as a retired old engineer, this is not of great importance to me. I'm content producing my silly dino cartoons for fun. How can the thumbnail process be adapted digital?
Good question Bob. For some shows it matters whether a piece was created digitally or traditionally, and they are different media with different challenges and advantages, so in that sense the difference matters. Otherwise I mostly treat them the same. The work process could stay digital, or start digital and end in traditional, start traditional and end digital, or cross back and forth several times. Digital isn't necessary at all, of course, just sometimes convenient.