Starting a Painting: Thumbnail Techniques

Are you looking for a different way to lay down the first steps for your painting?

Then this video pack might be just what you're looking for. We'll prepare 6 thumbnail sketches with an approach meant to help tease out some unusual angles, interesting lighting and ideas you perhaps wouldn't have thought of otherwise compared to looking down on an empty canvas.

• 1:45 Hour Video Course. Taking you through the whole process from start to finish.
• Showing 2 Variations. To show off some ways you might vary this approach to fit your preferences.
• No special tools required. No 3D knowledge or anything like that is needed. Just your trusty digital art program of choice.
  

It's a technique I've been using for a few years by now and it quickly became my go-to way of laying down the first steps of my paintings.
I've always struggled with the typical sketching things out on a blank canvas, and this is ultimately what I've settled on as being the most comfortable way for me to start my paintings. That isn't to say that this is "The ultimate best way of thumbnail sketching" ™, but it is a technique I personally have found myself most at home with after the commonly used ones never quite did it, like lineart or using silhouettes & flat shapes, and I hope it'll help you along as well.