Thumbnail Designs

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Early Thumbnail Designs


Creating thumbnails is an iterative process, starting with smaller designs "The size of your thumb",

These are used to gauge values and general designs to then create bigger more intricate versions.

They show basic levels of depth, line weight and shadow directions.



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