Beginner's Guide to Thumbnail Sketching

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Drawing is a skill that most people wish they could do but they immediately put themselves in the category of "Oh, I could never do that." I want to take this time and welcome you to my channel: Draw Sessions.
I've been drawing all my life and have had the privilege of working both for AAA game studios and also movies. I have taught foundation drawing at the University of Cincinnati and it's time now to give back. I understand the frustrations of learning art in general but specifically, drawing. My channel is dedicated in helping absolute beginners, intermediate artists, and industry veterans - all wanting to improve their drawing skills. Please like, subscribe, hit the notification bell and comment below if you're finding this channel helpful in your journey of becoming an artist.
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@RichardKabushenga Месяц назад

I've always wanted to fill my own sketchbook with dozens of sketches. After watching this video in conjunction with your sketchbook preview videos, I finally understand the importance of thumbnailing.

@bobbyrebholz2183 Месяц назад

That's great to hear. Thumbnailing is just this little trick we can do to give us more ideas and help us NOT settle for just one thing we're thinking in our heads.

@blooddrunkbruce Месяц назад

I started doing this last night. I felt after my first two thumbnails, my brain was like "Oh this would be cool! Draw this!" Instead of random scribbles, I was instead starting to draw with an intent of something I had imagined. Full anarchy scribble with take some work for me.

@PossumMedic 7 дней назад

These look perfect for the Mothership RPG! 🤘 I folded some paper in half, and stapled it together to make a little monster book! Thanks for the great vid! :D

@knessing7681 Месяц назад

these are great tips and mental refresher ... I hadn't thumbnailed in a long long time.

@aussiegruber86 12 дней назад

I have been trying to get into some drawing and came across this channel and dam I wish I came across it earlier

@bobbyrebholz2183 12 дней назад

But you're here NOW and that's what matters most. I will help in any way that I can.

@damionbartholomew4623 Месяц назад

Just hearing you talk about creatures is so pleasing to me, this is exactly the video I needed! Think from here on out I’m just gonna have you on in the background when I draw. I put too much effort into this automatic practice but to just be loose with it like you I’ve never really tried to do. Very eye opening for me 💕🙃

@umbertomaz 14 дней назад

First time learning about thumbnails! I tried it today, and it was a great exercise for loosening my lines. I'm enjoying your videos very much. Thank you!

@bentationfunkiloglio Месяц назад

Love these videos. Helps so much. Seems like one can take these same ideas and apply them to an entire design (instead of only one element.)

@TheTiuri730 Месяц назад

Loved it! Been using this exercise ever since you first mentioned it in another video. It feels so freeing to let things flow and happen almost just by accident

@ireneyoon5694 24 дня назад

So cool! First time learning about thumbnails. Thanks for the video

@FREAKCASTLE Месяц назад

I absolutely love your videos and you make them very entertaining and enjoyable with your love for what you are doing. Thank you for sharing your processes.

@ChrisKoe Месяц назад

Awesome as always! What impresses me most is how seemingly effortlessly you add the smallest detail and suddenly the whole area makes sense. Like when you mentioned that it needs something to make it look like the fungus was growing out of the skin. And you just add two scribbly lines and it TOTALLY looks like skin with something growing out of it?! I guess it comes with years and years of practice. But as someone who has picked up drawing just recently, this is just mindblowing!

@MarcusBeirne 16 дней назад

This was really insightful, seeing your creative process from sketching thumbnails to fleshing out a concept.

@inknpaintCW Месяц назад

Love the journey and the finished result.

@mehmentum2626 9 дней назад

adorable imo haha, a loveable 15 ft high ugly cutie. i really enjoy this mate, as a shaky person i always scribble and find figures i like, thanks for giving me a layout to create concepts and refine them that is presentable, really helps me appreciate my own art alot more.

@yelop_0w087 Месяц назад

You differentiates the "crazy stuff" and the "cool stuff" which are in the artbooks, but i personally would absolutely LOVE to see random thumbnails, messy hairballs and how yhese abstract shapes would for a complete design in an artbook, i love so much leaving to interpretation Love your vids, you taught me a lot in a small amount of time ! Thanks you !

@bfkgod Месяц назад

I have an iPad and Wacom Cintiq, but I still draw better with a BIC pen, literally the cheapest art tool on the planet lmao.

@nazaxprime Месяц назад

Idk, a burnt stick even cheaper. 😅

@aussiegruber86 12 дней назад

A stick and some dirt is way cheaper

@cozmoznova Месяц назад

Just what i needed at the right time, thanks!

@pcatful 18 дней назад

I like the process so far, especially from sketchy to more or less "outline" then reinforcing edges, adding depth--which helps give more ideas, and don't forget texture. Although this sort of conceptual art is not what I generally do, it's a good exercise for anyone. In my college drawing class, most subjects were from life, but they also assigned imaginary subjects, and subjects from memory or ideas. (They didn't get much into abstract, but they assigned drawing a piece of fresh ginger as something amorphous for which we would not have preconceptions. But it turns out I had just spent years growing and harvesting ginger on a farm in Hawaii before going back o school.)

@JRMorris Месяц назад

I have a bag of those stick pens in the studio that I use for layout on wood and anything with a lot of tooth. They hold up great to the absolute abuse I give them. Good video. I wanted to share some love for the lowly stick pen too though.

@mclovinirish 11 дней назад

From I was a young kid. I always started off by closing my eyes. Then randomly scribbling all over a page. Then I would pick out a shape from it. Very much like your loose sketches. By the time I was in high school I tried to pass that technique on. But no one went with it. I especially tried to pass it on to friends that got a creative block. But alas, they never stuck with it.

@DannyBoy443 13 дней назад

This is such an important video for me lol. I love 3 the most. It has the most alien nature and shape and can walk lol.

@magiv4205 Месяц назад

17:41 "Oh boy, what did I just do?" You reinvented hallucigenia, that's what you did.

@-coolcolin- Месяц назад

First, I really like your creature design. Can I get a hi? Love your content, keep going!

@3dchick 7 дней назад

Yeah, when you said creepy after putting in the eye, I was thinking cute, or a combo, like that magic slug thing in Arcane.

@henriquefeliciano5929 Месяц назад

I love yours videos Bobby! 🖤

@AlexanderSommerfeldt 14 дней назад

Brilliant stuff man. Keep it up!

@bobbyrebholz2183 13 дней назад

Thanks a ton!

@isisshinagawa8723 Месяц назад

Your drawings and thumbnails are so cool!

@bobbyrebholz2183 Месяц назад

Thank you so much 😀

@solertree8653 Месяц назад

I'm in animation (matte painter, still a junior with a LOT to learn) and I want to expand into vis dev, so this was great!

@user-se8rq2rc4t 7 дней назад

Thank you for the sharing

@samgrilloart6259 3 часа назад

I have a very cool alien moose looking creature now!

@zekeshreffler8016 12 дней назад

great video very insightful

@benjamincorak7071 Месяц назад

i love seeing you drawing crazy stuff and adding comments

@SebastianFeriz Месяц назад

i entirely love it !! many ideas and forms. I think you have some convictions and ideas but you kinda dive into exploring and play a bit much. Its very intresting. Im sure if you look your own videos also you would find some new ideas and abstractions. Thanks A LOT

@DanBeauleArt Месяц назад

Awesome vid. We don’t care if you use a calculator, we grading on the work! Grrrrr

@benjamincorak7071 Месяц назад

I have a book of Dark Arts and there you are,very nice drawings.

@Rayzer2368 Месяц назад

Awww, it’s so adorable. 😂

@egg_head_defore Месяц назад

I have a problem with drawing due to my ADHD, I always feel the urge to do large squiggles when it comes to this art style. However, with this video, I got a better understanding of using light lines! (I still do it)

@punotomalf6408 Месяц назад

I love it! Can you please make a tutorial about shading techniques ? You know a separate video would be great I'm struggling with the shading because I don't know how to properly build up my shading plus the direction of the shading and shadows.

@bobbyrebholz2183 Месяц назад

Thanks. 80% of the videos on my channel have shading tutorials within them!

@jesuscarmelorodriguezlem-id2vu Месяц назад

Very good 👍👍👍

@Godnibblets Месяц назад

i like the creature, its cute and a friend :)

@Easydrawingart2024 Месяц назад

Very good ❤❤❤

@ryancurry1457 Месяц назад

Great stuff. Thank you. 🕷 Everything is beautifully ugly, and I love it.

@Micca_ Месяц назад

❤❤❤❤

@SeekAndYeShallFindGod Месяц назад

Earth is indeed enclosed and flat. Nice thumbnails.

@bobbyrebholz2183 23 дня назад

That's hilarious. Thank you though.

@user-mg2om5dr7e Месяц назад

thank you for this . I like it!~~

@bobbyrebholz2183 Месяц назад

I'm glad you like it

@xlexcorex Месяц назад

niceeeee

@AdrianMichaelMulryan Месяц назад

awesome and entertaining vid! have you seen scavengers reign? fantastic creature design in it!

@utkarsh.m7757 Месяц назад

i am a concept artist ... just started ... totally love your videos .. can you help me out? i usually mess up the size ratio of things and the overall look in perspective looks odd.. how can i fix it?

@infographie Месяц назад

Excellent!

@bobbyrebholz2183 Месяц назад

Many thanks!

@robertjohnson9187 Месяц назад

#3 sorta reminds me of a cave painting of an aurochs - at least the body of the animal.

@MFDOOOOM Месяц назад

Could you please make a vid about shape design ? I hear about his important it is so much, but no one ever does a deep dive into it (except in paid courses i guess)

@shiraloli Месяц назад

This is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen! Spending several months on a creature sounds daunting tho, how do you balance the feelings of completing a piece with the need to revise it later and not fall into impostor syndrome in between?

@kingofhorror7925 Месяц назад

i love tremors to

@Team6OWG 15 дней назад

Hi, I like military vehicles, so how do I thumbnail sketch vehicles? They tend to be more blocky and angular, while organic things tend to be pretty roundish? Could you do a video on industrial thumbnail sketching?

@oliblubb334 Месяц назад

I haven't watched the video till the end yet. I am currently at the point where you chose a sketch version. I also like number four. I think that somehow looks like a grasshopper. And number six, for which you have also chosen yourself, looks like a nest for the grasshopper. I personally also like to make this type of drawings / sketching. However, everything and always digital. So ... I'm now looking further and I'm curious to see what will become of it 🙂

@backtotheroots6678 Месяц назад

id like to see it with colors... ;-)

@VrejAllahverdian-dy4xc Месяц назад

it's cute, giving me Stitch vibes, from Lilo and Stitch

@gato0o0oo Месяц назад

What graphite pencils do you recommend from Amazon? Hoping you answer!

@mitsubishigenetech Месяц назад

That creature is like "look at them centipede cheeks i've built in da gym"

@MayaDrawingArt Месяц назад

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽😊

@pelelamon9410 Месяц назад

i love your sketches how long have you been drawing?

@dennisgoettl3308 Месяц назад

Fun

@tomasz9429 Месяц назад

"The entire body is rounded." **looks at the cat sleeping on the desk next to me** So you have drawn an ugly space cat. It's canon now.

@iancameron6124 Месяц назад

good monster, not too scary, we all love a cute monster....my mrs

@danielfernandeznungaray8996 Месяц назад

It looks like the big alien monster from the ending of "evolution" movie 😂that was killed with H&S

@linhmom8946 Месяц назад

What kind of paper do you use?

@Skull-Kingler Месяц назад

4:21 To me no 2 looks like a Chameleon Like creature with Furrs rising above from eyes while laying down like crocodile No 1 looks like a dragon like creature with Lizard like head ( Left side ) And in middle with wings in upper middle

@Exsecrabilis Месяц назад

-06/20/2024 @ 2242 #1 looks like a snapping turtle with a broken and gapping upper shelf. #4 reminds me of the Rhino from the cartoon series "Jumanji". Sorry, my imagination tends to run away every once in a while.

@Simon-et4hu Месяц назад

The creature is both cute and hideous! And I guess when you are trying to find new desings in a way you have to not know what you’re doing? At least a bit lol

@modernamami5861 Месяц назад

3:20 this sounds a lot like automatic drawing. I used to do this all the time, but I wanted to make more “sophisticated” art so I stopped. Anyways, I love your channel. I was wondering, if you knew anything about creature design as it relates to plants though? I always see a lot of animal-like creatures but I don’t often see anything about plant-life or microorganisms.

@jimbow25 Месяц назад

I actually had an idea for a concept called a Butt Sucker which is a slimey plant that attacks its preys rear end sucks out its intestines that way.

@Blixa-fj7fn Месяц назад

The creature is indeed cute

@EmmelynRei Месяц назад

Do you still recommend this method, even if you have more of an idea of what you want to draw but you still need to flesh it out more? Like if you have a vague idea in your head and you aren't trying to start from scratch, how can you thumbnail those type of ideas? Or if you are given a more specific brief and then you do thumbnails for that brief?

@bobbyrebholz2183 Месяц назад

I still recommend it because even if you have an idea, it can help give the best option for that idea instead of settling.

@EmmelynRei Месяц назад

@@bobbyrebholz2183 thank you! I appreciate the response!

@user-jj3hq6xy5i Месяц назад

CTRL+C? Or CTRL+X? Anyhow, This technique is really cool. No. 4 to me looks like some giant louse biting into the scalp of a giant.

@Rrealms_ Месяц назад

Ummm… the world’s round!? 😂 everything has been revealed.

@bobbyrebholz2183 Месяц назад

LOL I get a kick out of flat Earthers desperately scouring Google in an attempt to prove Earth is the shape of a hockey puck.

@bglvaupel 5 дней назад

Should have a head in both ends.

@whatifitnt 3 дня назад

This one looks like it has two brains... one on each end... wanting to go in two different directions... I wonder how they decide who wins?😂

@bglvaupel 5 дней назад

What are you drawing with?

@bobbyrebholz2183 5 дней назад

Bic ballpoint

@altpropaganda7293 22 дня назад

Pen and paper will control-Z

@bryanterborg3665 Месяц назад

When you’re doing your thumbnails, are there points of interest that you mark as a certain point for a body type? In other words, have you made a specific reference point for certain things (arms, legs, eyes, folds, multiple torsos), or do you wait to see what the scribble turns out before making any decisions?🦶