This video, perhaps unintentionally, really captures the struggles we feel when brainstorming and trying to put new ideas to paper. When you were working on the second panel, you seemed to have some doubt about what to put down, and it showed in your monologue where everything is just sort of this or that, and that's kind of the same thing I find myself suffering from so often, like I'm just not sure if this is okay, but let's try something here, or this is a cool idea and I like it, but maybe it doesn't fit for my story (those are the hardest ideas to say no to, e.g. kill your darlings). So I just wanted to thank you for really showing the struggle of this process, and I totally resonated with it. Giving yourself all of those casual thumbnails really is a great idea, opening up the playing field, and giving yourself something other than a blank page more room from the onset to allow for mistakes and just play around with ideas.
Thank u! That’s exactly the channel I was looking for YEARS! Like a lot of videos on RU-vid cover beginner stuff like “how to draw head” etc. that’s good and important, but there isn’t much content than covers in depth topics like this one. Also a lot of videos on RU-vid talk about pretty art, but art without a story. I aspire to tell stories through my illustrations and now it’s not the problem about “how to do something?”, but “how to tell the story I want to tell?” . Ur video shows ur thought process really well, and is long and I can really get a lot from it. Thank you it’s amazing! Subbed! ✨
Your thumbnails really show how your idea is clarified a bit more with each iteration even when starting with a simple sentence. It seems that the little drawings we do also feed into our head. It's a great reminder to allow the first drawings to be loose and "bad" because they serve to tell us what we really want. That's so interesting and thank you for this lengthy video :)
This is the video I didn’t know I needed. Thank you so much. I think this might be one of those videos that I watch more than once because there’s so much useful tidbits in it. :)
I tell you this, I love your drawings. If my bunny story gets picked up, you would do well for it, I think. Never know, how things go, I'm new. But I love your drawing. You got a beautiful hand. There is real beauty in it.
I love his work!!!! ❤ it’s super beautiful and pretty. They’re very creative and awesome ideas and thoughts that he puts onto the pater. I can’t stop watching his videos and how he creates his work sometimes. Keep up the great artwork.
New Pinch and zoom ability on RU-vid really made watching this video even more informative as I was able to zoom in to certain details you were concerned we, the viewer, would miss. Very good video. Thanks
Awesome video, Tim does a great job of drawing and explaining the process, playing with ideas, being fluid and playful. He shows what makes an image visually interesting, So inspiring, a great lesson for artists, or anyone interested in learning. Personally, I've been looking for inspiration to help get out of artists block, This really helps reminds me to have fun and play around with creating my own little storylines and to think of the most interesting image from them.... Thank You Tim.
Codex..good stuff as always,art supplies,I think once an artist wantabe figures out the medium they want to focus on, it's good to get the best.. bye'eeee..
Once again Tim thanks for your gifted inputs ...... they all help in the evolution of the creator within each of us ..... a sort of unleashing the dragon! Trust in the process. I am just catching up with all your inspiring courses. Thank you so much .. is that a Scottish twang I hear? A bit Sean Coneryish!! Ha ha ... kind regards
This is a great video. In my case, I like to start with a rough perspective grid. It helps me to visualize the scene better. By the way, when it comes to composition, there are 2 books that I can't recommend enough : Framed Ink 1 & 2 (by Marcos Mateu-Mestre).
Yeah those books are great. Starting with a perspective grid is a great process. I should mention that next time. I’m so used to imagining the grid these days
I didn't know that framed ink had a second book, I got the first one like in 2008 and I've learned so much from it! I now know what I'll get myself for my birthday next month, thanks!
"focus on letting your idea flow, making sure that you don't worry about if you can execute it" I mean, if I can't execute it, there's like a 99% chance I won't be able to thumbnail it anyway
@@travisnobleart I don't know about "too perfect" but for example I have a hard time with keeping readility with depth on my pieces so I have a hard time doing it in thumbnails too and vice versa
@@yopomdpin6285 That makes sense. I'm an amateur thumbnailer, but I have some ideas to help from my experience. Learn perspective, you won't get far without it. You don't even have to be scientific with it. Learn how to make a more casual perspective grid without ruler. That really opened the doors for me. You may be able to avoid the perspective issue by just dividing each scene into three spaces: Background, middle ground, foreground. This is what Cezzane did (if I remember correctly). Other ideas: start with drawing humans in the scene before anything else. Then you can compare all the props and background stuff to the human and keep everything scaled correctly. Hope this helps.
@@travisnobleart I already know perspective and most of the fundamentals, especially volume, 3D and gesture. The problem isn't how to make depth. The problem is how to still be readable while keeping the depth. Most of the time when I make a piece with proper depth, the details of stuff in the middle ground/background become unreadable
@@yopomdpin6285 So the main thing that affects readability are tangents. When two lines intersect between two objects of different depth will ruin the illusion. Walt Stanchfield and Klaus Janson talk about this. You could reorientate the lines, or erase the point of intersection which is common in manga.
Hey Tim, Great video. I was wondering when and how do you integrate text and narrative in your thumbnails? Because it does take space in the composition. It already happened to me to create a thumbnail thinking about the story, but placing text in the end, I then struggled to add it into my compositions without altering them. What are your thought?
Do you mean when Drawing comics? Integrating word balloons etc? Or things like logos for covers? I normally try to get all elements on the page for the planning phase. So I add dialogue really early on to pages. And if possible I get the logo elements for a cover etc into photoshop for the thumbnail. I think my early graphic design education left a strong mark on my process (despite feeling useless at the time). I have alway viewed type and logo as an important part of the image. It seems logical to treat them as crucial in planning.
