Most artists throw away their best ideas at the thumbnail stage, but in this real-time field session I’ll show you how to sketch big boss creatures using the rough doodles you already have in your sketchbook, and how to choose one strong thumbnail and build the final design directly on top of it instead of starting a brand new drawing. You’ll see how I spot a “boss-worthy” thumbnail, add structure and believable weight to a loose sketch, push scale and silhouette for maximum impact, and layer in detail without killing the original energy that made the idea work in the first place.
If you’d like to go deeper with this lesson, I’d love to have you over on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/drawsessions/membership
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CREATURE DESIGN WORKSHOP DISCORD: https://discord.gg/H5UNk8T5Ns
00:00 - Introduction
00:22 - Materials
03:09 - Thumbnail Sketching Basics
04:57 - Studying Plants
07:02 - Thumbnail Sketch #2
16:09 - Giving your Creature Purpose
18:15 - Thumbnail Sketch #4
26:20 - Quiet Drawing Session
31:32 - Explaining my Pencils
33:33 - Talking Through the Refinement Process
48:53 - Final Details
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