As a designer, one of your first steps (after collecting all the information about your project) will be to create thumbnails sketches. Thumbnails sketches are small, quick, rough sketches to help you brainstorm and come up with ideas for your design. Before you sit at the computer and begin using InDesign or QuarkXpress to do your layout, you should do thumbnails. They don’t have to be perfect, but just to show various ways you may want to place your elements on the page. You should do as many thumbnails as you can to fill a page and sometimes more if needed. Once your get your thumbnails done you will select the one(s) that work best and proceed to do comps. Use the video below to help you get started if you’ve never done thumbnails before.
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Thank you Prof.Brown
I was wondering what was thumbnails sketches because one of my professors was asking the class to draw thumbnails for homework and I didn’t understand but now,I will definitely use thumbnails for a lot of my work.
Yes Ninoshka, your 1st homework assignment is thumbnails for the poster which is the 1st project.
What’s the topic for our thumbnails? Is it actually the Jazz Festival?
Krystine, if you check the tap for Assignments that is explained. I realized that page wasn’t live but it should be there visible now. You’re assignment that is due for the next class are thumbnail sketches for the Poster assignment.
This video answered a lot of my questions, thanks for the post.
Great videos Professor Brown – This was really helpful – I haven’t done thumbnails & rough drafts for a while, since my projects in high school and this refreshed my memory.
I made my thumbnails last week using this guide.. Now time for the comps!