How to Draw Concept Art Thumbnails (and Skip Details)

I love Scott Robertson artworks.
Today, I took a break in my work and to relax, I sketched some Concept art thumbnails.

This thumbnail technique is incredible to generate ideas fast.
It is part of the creative phase of every beginning of a design project.

To succeed, remember to skip the details and focus on the essential.

Sketches of Concept art thumbnails
Sketches of Concept art thumbnails
  • Draw your thumbnails without caring much of details.
    Ignore or simplify them.
  • Focus on drawing the main shapes with fluid lines.
  • Your scene will come out dynamic.
  • The objective here is to get an expressive mood, not a “realistic sketch”.
Play with the composition
Play with the composition

The phase of detailing will come later for the selected sketches only.
That’s how you can reduce the time for the research of ideas.

You will be able to allocate this extra time for detailing or rendering (or resting).

Decline various proposals
Decline various proposals

Thumbnails are a great way to visualize a scene in no time.

  • One thumbnail could take less than a minute to draw.
  • What takes time is not the drawing process, but the inspiration.
  • To generate ideas fast, draw fast many ideas as we can.
Zoom-in characters to empower action scenes
Zoom-in characters to empower action scenes

Some professional Concept artists like to take half a day to focus only on drawing thumbnails.
Then, in the afternoon they select a few and explore them deeper.

TIP
To redraw a thumbnail in a big format:

  1. Scan it,
  2. scale it bigger,
  3. and use it as an underlayer.
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That’s all for today!

Feel free to leave a comment.
If you too like drawing with dynamic lines,
you can start learning the basics of sketching with the Designer Starter Kit.

Simple and efficient. :)
Cheers,
Chou-Tac

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Hello! I'm Chou-Tac, a Product Designer from France.

If the sketching methods I’ve acquired aid me in my life and in my industrial design career, I believe that they can also help you reach your dream goal as a student or professional designer.

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