![]() Now you’ll be adding some details to it, cleaner lines and changing anything you feel needs to change. Take a new piece of paper, draw a bigger thumbnail or just use the whole paper and start sketching out the same drawing you have on your thumbnail. After you’re done with several thumbnails, and you think you found the one you want to work with, pick it up and start cleaning up your sketch. Ideas are meaningless until you put pencil to paper. The benefit of a thumbnail sketch is they allow you to visually plan out your artwork. Some studies to help you figure out what color scheme you’ll want for the final piece. A thumbnail sketch is a small drawing that represents the future version of and artist’s artwork. ![]() If you prefer, you can add some bits of color. But also to study the lighting for the final painting. Usually, since we’re trying to reduce details as much as possible, artists will add some tones to the thumbnails in grey tones, mostly just to get silhouettes and a better notion of the composition. Or even a bit of color, if that helps you. Finally, the general shapes of your character, buildings, trees and any other subject that will have some importance in your final painting. A horizon line, any main vertical or horizontal lines that will be part of your painting and will help on your composition. Just draw the main shapes of your drawing.
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