Post #683959 by GROG on Sat, Jun 29, 2013 6:00 PM

Photoshop thumbnails.

It's quick. You can experiment with a number of solutions without committing to one. You can combine elements from different thumbnails until you get one you like.

The old master painters, illustrators, artists, etc. did some pretty darned finished thumbnails before they did their final paintings. GROG saw a Drew Struzan art show and it had some of his thumbnail paintings he did in preparation for his final illustrations and they were little masterpiece illustrations in themselves. They called 'em thumbnails or color sketches because they were smaller, faster little paintings and sketches working out the colors, forms, lighting etc. before doing the final piece.

Look how finished Leyendecker's rough color sketches were:

And now with Photoshop, you can change things and try out different colors and stuff pretty quickly.

[ Edited by: GROG 2013-06-29 18:36 ]