I've always wanted to fill my own sketchbook with dozens of sketches. After watching this video in conjunction with your sketchbook preview videos, I finally understand the importance of thumbnailing.
That's great to hear. Thumbnailing is just this little trick we can do to give us more ideas and help us NOT settle for just one thing we're thinking in our heads.
I started doing this last night. I felt after my first two thumbnails, my brain was like "Oh this would be cool! Draw this!" Instead of random scribbles, I was instead starting to draw with an intent of something I had imagined. Full anarchy scribble with take some work for me.
First time learning about thumbnails! I tried it today, and it was a great exercise for loosening my lines. I'm enjoying your videos very much. Thank you!
Just hearing you talk about creatures is so pleasing to me, this is exactly the video I needed! Think from here on out I’m just gonna have you on in the background when I draw. I put too much effort into this automatic practice but to just be loose with it like you I’ve never really tried to do. Very eye opening for me 💕🙃
Awesome as always! What impresses me most is how seemingly effortlessly you add the smallest detail and suddenly the whole area makes sense. Like when you mentioned that it needs something to make it look like the fungus was growing out of the skin. And you just add two scribbly lines and it TOTALLY looks like skin with something growing out of it?! I guess it comes with years and years of practice. But as someone who has picked up drawing just recently, this is just mindblowing!
You differentiates the "crazy stuff" and the "cool stuff" which are in the artbooks, but i personally would absolutely LOVE to see random thumbnails, messy hairballs and how yhese abstract shapes would for a complete design in an artbook, i love so much leaving to interpretation Love your vids, you taught me a lot in a small amount of time ! Thanks you !
Loved it! Been using this exercise ever since you first mentioned it in another video. It feels so freeing to let things flow and happen almost just by accident
I like the process so far, especially from sketchy to more or less "outline" then reinforcing edges, adding depth--which helps give more ideas, and don't forget texture. Although this sort of conceptual art is not what I generally do, it's a good exercise for anyone. In my college drawing class, most subjects were from life, but they also assigned imaginary subjects, and subjects from memory or ideas. (They didn't get much into abstract, but they assigned drawing a piece of fresh ginger as something amorphous for which we would not have preconceptions. But it turns out I had just spent years growing and harvesting ginger on a farm in Hawaii before going back o school.)
These look perfect for the Mothership RPG! 🤘 I folded some paper in half, and stapled it together to make a little monster book! Thanks for the great vid! :D
I have a bag of those stick pens in the studio that I use for layout on wood and anything with a lot of tooth. They hold up great to the absolute abuse I give them. Good video. I wanted to share some love for the lowly stick pen too though.
I absolutely love your videos and you make them very entertaining and enjoyable with your love for what you are doing. Thank you for sharing your processes.
Usually, I sketch with pencil, but your videos make me wanna sketch with pen, so I'm gonna try. I like drawing animals, so let's try something different
I thought about how your lumbering creature might work when you mentioned it might be suited for a swamp- It's cactus-looking appendages look to me like they could remain above the water and act as some kind of lure (given they look or smell similar to some plant that herbivores love) then it MIGHT be able to jump or at least propel itself forward with those hind legs it has and maul whatever is in front of it with it's front tooth/mandible things. The big bony limbs could also look like they could work as shovels to position the creature below the sediment of the swamp or a lake. Ambush predation might not work though, given how massive it looks ,,,, anyway, nice video- very fun to follow along
Also, I love that you are very into drawing bugs and insectoid-like creatures, I've always loved from a very young age to draw things like wasps and bees, or grubs and I'm not even really sure why, they just appeal to me for some reason.
adorable imo haha, a loveable 15 ft high ugly cutie. i really enjoy this mate, as a shaky person i always scribble and find figures i like, thanks for giving me a layout to create concepts and refine them that is presentable, really helps me appreciate my own art alot more.
I love it! Can you please make a tutorial about shading techniques ? You know a separate video would be great I'm struggling with the shading because I don't know how to properly build up my shading plus the direction of the shading and shadows.
You could always draw it on paper and then take a photo and refine it with the iPad. Painting is so much cleaner on there, but yeah; drawing will always be easier on "real" media.
I have a problem with drawing due to my ADHD, I always feel the urge to do large squiggles when it comes to this art style. However, with this video, I got a better understanding of using light lines! (I still do it)
i entirely love it !! many ideas and forms. I think you have some convictions and ideas but you kinda dive into exploring and play a bit much. Its very intresting. Im sure if you look your own videos also you would find some new ideas and abstractions. Thanks A LOT
Really interesting concept and method :o #2 at the 5 minute mark looks kind of like a frog to me (albeit with bulbous almost paw-like legs/feet) like a puppy frog hybrid And #3 gave me a awesome idea for a almost rhino-like bug (I actually took a photo with my phone and sketched a outline over your thumbnail sketch 😂)
This is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen! Spending several months on a creature sounds daunting tho, how do you balance the feelings of completing a piece with the need to revise it later and not fall into impostor syndrome in between?
From I was a young kid. I always started off by closing my eyes. Then randomly scribbling all over a page. Then I would pick out a shape from it. Very much like your loose sketches. By the time I was in high school I tried to pass that technique on. But no one went with it. I especially tried to pass it on to friends that got a creative block. But alas, they never stuck with it.
Hi, I like military vehicles, so how do I thumbnail sketch vehicles? They tend to be more blocky and angular, while organic things tend to be pretty roundish? Could you do a video on industrial thumbnail sketching?
I haven't watched the video till the end yet. I am currently at the point where you chose a sketch version. I also like number four. I think that somehow looks like a grasshopper. And number six, for which you have also chosen yourself, looks like a nest for the grasshopper. I personally also like to make this type of drawings / sketching. However, everything and always digital. So ... I'm now looking further and I'm curious to see what will become of it 🙂
4:21 To me no 2 looks like a Chameleon Like creature with Furrs rising above from eyes while laying down like crocodile No 1 looks like a dragon like creature with Lizard like head ( Left side ) And in middle with wings in upper middle
Could you please make a vid about shape design ? I hear about his important it is so much, but no one ever does a deep dive into it (except in paid courses i guess)
i am a concept artist ... just started ... totally love your videos .. can you help me out? i usually mess up the size ratio of things and the overall look in perspective looks odd.. how can i fix it?
This video makes me want to draw again, I just entered college and I'm taking art major🌻, also what pen do you use?? It looks like a normal writing pen😮
Do you still recommend this method, even if you have more of an idea of what you want to draw but you still need to flesh it out more? Like if you have a vague idea in your head and you aren't trying to start from scratch, how can you thumbnail those type of ideas? Or if you are given a more specific brief and then you do thumbnails for that brief?
I dont know if its relavent. But i'm autistik. And random scribbles just wont work with my brain. It has to be constructed and orderly. Also what if all you care about is characters not... Well... Blobs. Is it impossible without the anatomy knowledge?
-06/20/2024 @ 2242 #1 looks like a snapping turtle with a broken and gapping upper shelf. #4 reminds me of the Rhino from the cartoon series "Jumanji". Sorry, my imagination tends to run away every once in a while.
47:07 don't know but this saying got me like crushed by a truck, amazed by the word, so poetic lol hope you did not control Z anything and you did not erase anything cuz what is there to erase how do you know you're incorrect if you think you're incorrect then you're overthinking it remember that you haven't you haven't decided on I grasp the word differently from the actual meaning of it new viewer here, my opinion your videos is too long, people tend to avoid long video. But it is all still a preference and opinion
The creature is both cute and hideous! And I guess when you are trying to find new desings in a way you have to not know what you’re doing? At least a bit lol
When you’re doing your thumbnails, are there points of interest that you mark as a certain point for a body type? In other words, have you made a specific reference point for certain things (arms, legs, eyes, folds, multiple torsos), or do you wait to see what the scribble turns out before making any decisions?🦶
I've always wanted to fill my own sketchbook with dozens of sketches. After watching this video in conjunction with your sketchbook preview videos, I finally understand the importance of thumbnailing.
That's great to hear. Thumbnailing is just this little trick we can do to give us more ideas and help us NOT settle for just one thing we're thinking in our heads.
I started doing this last night. I felt after my first two thumbnails, my brain was like "Oh this would be cool! Draw this!" Instead of random scribbles, I was instead starting to draw with an intent of something I had imagined. Full anarchy scribble with take some work for me.
First time learning about thumbnails! I tried it today, and it was a great exercise for loosening my lines. I'm enjoying your videos very much. Thank you!
Just hearing you talk about creatures is so pleasing to me, this is exactly the video I needed! Think from here on out I’m just gonna have you on in the background when I draw. I put too much effort into this automatic practice but to just be loose with it like you I’ve never really tried to do. Very eye opening for me 💕🙃
Awesome as always!
What impresses me most is how seemingly effortlessly you add the smallest detail and suddenly the whole area makes sense. Like when you mentioned that it needs something to make it look like the fungus was growing out of the skin. And you just add two scribbly lines and it TOTALLY looks like skin with something growing out of it?! I guess it comes with years and years of practice. But as someone who has picked up drawing just recently, this is just mindblowing!
these are great tips and mental refresher ... I hadn't thumbnailed in a long long time.
You differentiates the "crazy stuff" and the "cool stuff" which are in the artbooks, but i personally would absolutely LOVE to see random thumbnails, messy hairballs and how yhese abstract shapes would for a complete design in an artbook, i love so much leaving to interpretation
Love your vids, you taught me a lot in a small amount of time ! Thanks you !
Loved it! Been using this exercise ever since you first mentioned it in another video. It feels so freeing to let things flow and happen almost just by accident
17:41 "Oh boy, what did I just do?"
You reinvented hallucigenia, that's what you did.
This was really insightful, seeing your creative process from sketching thumbnails to fleshing out a concept.
I have been trying to get into some drawing and came across this channel and dam I wish I came across it earlier
But you're here NOW and that's what matters most. I will help in any way that I can.
So cool! First time learning about thumbnails. Thanks for the video
I like the process so far, especially from sketchy to more or less "outline" then reinforcing edges, adding depth--which helps give more ideas, and don't forget texture. Although this sort of conceptual art is not what I generally do, it's a good exercise for anyone. In my college drawing class, most subjects were from life, but they also assigned imaginary subjects, and subjects from memory or ideas. (They didn't get much into abstract, but they assigned drawing a piece of fresh ginger as something amorphous for which we would not have preconceptions. But it turns out I had just spent years growing and harvesting ginger on a farm in Hawaii before going back o school.)
Thank you! I'm actually getting excited about doing art again!
First, I really like your creature design. Can I get a hi? Love your content, keep going!
Just what i needed at the right time, thanks!
These look perfect for the Mothership RPG! 🤘
I folded some paper in half, and stapled it together to make a little monster book!
Thanks for the great vid! :D
Your drawings and thumbnails are so cool!
Thank you so much 😀
Yeah, when you said creepy after putting in the eye, I was thinking cute, or a combo, like that magic slug thing in Arcane.
Abriu minha mente ,obrigado mestre .
I have a bag of those stick pens in the studio that I use for layout on wood and anything with a lot of tooth. They hold up great to the absolute abuse I give them.
Good video. I wanted to share some love for the lowly stick pen too though.
Love the journey and the finished result.
I absolutely love your videos and you make them very entertaining and enjoyable with your love for what you are doing. Thank you for sharing your processes.
Love these videos. Helps so much. Seems like one can take these same ideas and apply them to an entire design (instead of only one element.)
#6 The trampoline of soul devouring
Usually, I sketch with pencil, but your videos make me wanna sketch with pen, so I'm gonna try. I like drawing animals, so let's try something different
Brilliant stuff man. Keep it up!
Thanks a ton!
I thought about how your lumbering creature might work when you mentioned it might be suited for a swamp- It's cactus-looking appendages look to me like they could remain above the water and act as some kind of lure (given they look or smell similar to some plant that herbivores love) then it MIGHT be able to jump or at least propel itself forward with those hind legs it has and maul whatever is in front of it with it's front tooth/mandible things. The big bony limbs could also look like they could work as shovels to position the creature below the sediment of the swamp or a lake. Ambush predation might not work though, given how massive it looks ,,,, anyway, nice video- very fun to follow along
Also, I love that you are very into drawing bugs and insectoid-like creatures, I've always loved from a very young age to draw things like wasps and bees, or grubs and I'm not even really sure why, they just appeal to me for some reason.
Thank you for the sharing
I'm in animation (matte painter, still a junior with a LOT to learn) and I want to expand into vis dev, so this was great!
great video very insightful
I’m a horror artist too, and I really liked your video
adorable imo haha, a loveable 15 ft high ugly cutie. i really enjoy this mate, as a shaky person i always scribble and find figures i like, thanks for giving me a layout to create concepts and refine them that is presentable, really helps me appreciate my own art alot more.
Excellent!
Many thanks!
Very good 👍👍👍
This is such an important video for me lol. I love 3 the most. It has the most alien nature and shape and can walk lol.
I love it! Can you please make a tutorial about shading techniques ? You know a separate video would be great I'm struggling with the shading because I don't know how to properly build up my shading plus the direction of the shading and shadows.
Thanks. 80% of the videos on my channel have shading tutorials within them!
I have an iPad and Wacom Cintiq, but I still draw better with a BIC pen, literally the cheapest art tool on the planet lmao.
Idk, a burnt stick even cheaper. 😅
A stick and some dirt is way cheaper
You could always draw it on paper and then take a photo and refine it with the iPad. Painting is so much cleaner on there, but yeah; drawing will always be easier on "real" media.
BiC mastered the ballpoint pen. Check out a vid on the history of it.
Sounds like you haven't mastered your pen handling, lmao. I have a 800 dollar Wacom I won at nycc (new york, comic con!). And I can draw just as good.
I absolutely love drawing with Bic pens. Some of my best drawings are with Bic pens.
Same here!
I love yours videos Bobby! 🖤
i love seeing you drawing crazy stuff and adding comments
I have a problem with drawing due to my ADHD, I always feel the urge to do large squiggles when it comes to this art style. However, with this video, I got a better understanding of using light lines! (I still do it)
i entirely love it !! many ideas and forms. I think you have some convictions and ideas but you kinda dive into exploring and play a bit much. Its very intresting. Im sure if you look your own videos also you would find some new ideas and abstractions. Thanks A LOT
Really interesting concept and method :o
#2 at the 5 minute mark looks kind of like a frog to me (albeit with bulbous almost paw-like legs/feet) like a puppy frog hybrid
And #3 gave me a awesome idea for a almost rhino-like bug (I actually took a photo with my phone and sketched a outline over your thumbnail sketch 😂)
Awesome vid. We don’t care if you use a calculator, we grading on the work! Grrrrr
This is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen! Spending several months on a creature sounds daunting tho, how do you balance the feelings of completing a piece with the need to revise it later and not fall into impostor syndrome in between?
Awww, it’s so adorable. 😂
I have a book of Dark Arts and there you are,very nice drawings.
From I was a young kid. I always started off by closing my eyes. Then randomly scribbling all over a page. Then I would pick out a shape from it.
Very much like your loose sketches.
By the time I was in high school I tried to pass that technique on. But no one went with it.
I especially tried to pass it on to friends that got a creative block. But alas, they never stuck with it.
awesome and entertaining vid! have you seen scavengers reign? fantastic creature design in it!
niceeeee
Very good ❤❤❤
That creature is like "look at them centipede cheeks i've built in da gym"
Hi, I like military vehicles, so how do I thumbnail sketch vehicles? They tend to be more blocky and angular, while organic things tend to be pretty roundish? Could you do a video on industrial thumbnail sketching?
I haven't watched the video till the end yet.
I am currently at the point where you chose a sketch version. I also like number four.
I think that somehow looks like a grasshopper. And number six, for which you have also chosen yourself, looks like a nest for the grasshopper.
I personally also like to make this type of drawings / sketching. However, everything and always digital. So ... I'm now looking further and I'm curious to see what will become of it 🙂
❤❤❤❤
#3 sorta reminds me of a cave painting of an aurochs - at least the body of the animal.
4:21
To me no 2 looks like a Chameleon Like creature with Furrs rising above from eyes while laying down like crocodile
No 1 looks like a dragon like creature with Lizard like head ( Left side )
And in middle with wings in upper middle
Could you please make a vid about shape design ? I hear about his important it is so much, but no one ever does a deep dive into it (except in paid courses i guess)
Earth is indeed enclosed and flat. Nice thumbnails.
That's hilarious. Thank you though.
I have a very cool alien moose looking creature now!
i am a concept artist ... just started ... totally love your videos .. can you help me out? i usually mess up the size ratio of things and the overall look in perspective looks odd.. how can i fix it?
6 almost looks like a table or a giant bowl with people standing around it
good monster, not too scary, we all love a cute monster....my mrs
This video makes me want to draw again, I just entered college and I'm taking art major🌻, also what pen do you use?? It looks like a normal writing pen😮
Just your standard Bic ballpoint
i like the creature, its cute and a friend :)
it's cute, giving me Stitch vibes, from Lilo and Stitch
i love your sketches how long have you been drawing?
Wait! On the refined sketch where is it's face/head (or its "front")?
thank you for this . I like it!~~
I'm glad you like it
id like to see it with colors... ;-)
What graphite pencils do you recommend from Amazon?
Hoping you answer!
One of our lecturers tried to teach us not to erase or ctrl z our mistakes. Unfortunately, we didn't listen, so now old habits die hard.
It looks like the big alien monster from the ending of "evolution" movie 😂that was killed with H&S
i love tremors to
👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽😊
Fun
Ok ok we all know how number 5 looks like 😂 Greetings Sir!😊
How dare you! 😂😂
The creature is indeed cute
What kind of paper do you use?
Great stuff. Thank you. 🕷 Everything is beautifully ugly, and I love it.
Do you still recommend this method, even if you have more of an idea of what you want to draw but you still need to flesh it out more?
Like if you have a vague idea in your head and you aren't trying to start from scratch, how can you thumbnail those type of ideas?
Or if you are given a more specific brief and then you do thumbnails for that brief?
I still recommend it because even if you have an idea, it can help give the best option for that idea instead of settling.
@@bobbyrebholz2183 thank you! I appreciate the response!
Which ball point you are youing and what type of paper pls
I use Bic ballpoint and draw on Moleskine
"The entire body is rounded."
**looks at the cat sleeping on the desk next to me**
So you have drawn an ugly space cat. It's canon now.
I dont know if its relavent. But i'm autistik. And random scribbles just wont work with my brain. It has to be constructed and orderly. Also what if all you care about is characters not... Well... Blobs. Is it impossible without the anatomy knowledge?
Ummm… the world’s round!? 😂 everything has been revealed.
LOL I get a kick out of flat Earthers desperately scouring Google in an attempt to prove Earth is the shape of a hockey puck.
What are you drawing with?
Bic ballpoint
-06/20/2024 @ 2242
#1 looks like a snapping turtle with a broken and gapping upper shelf.
#4 reminds me of the Rhino from the cartoon series "Jumanji".
Sorry, my imagination tends to run away every once in a while.
47:07 don't know but this saying got me like crushed by a truck, amazed by the word, so poetic lol
hope you did not control Z anything and you did not erase anything cuz what is there to erase how do you know you're incorrect if you think you're incorrect then you're overthinking it remember that you haven't you haven't decided on
I grasp the word differently from the actual meaning of it
new viewer here, my opinion your videos is too long, people tend to avoid long video. But it is all still a preference and opinion
CTRL+C? Or CTRL+X? Anyhow, This technique is really cool. No. 4 to me looks like some giant louse biting into the scalp of a giant.
The creature is both cute and hideous! And I guess when you are trying to find new desings in a way you have to not know what you’re doing? At least a bit lol
When you’re doing your thumbnails, are there points of interest that you mark as a certain point for a body type? In other words, have you made a specific reference point for certain things (arms, legs, eyes, folds, multiple torsos), or do you wait to see what the scribble turns out before making any decisions?🦶
This one looks like it has two brains... one on each end... wanting to go in two different directions... I wonder how they decide who wins?😂
Should have a head in both ends.
Looks like the stable diffusion of sketchbooks. I imagine that's how AI does all its image creation
Pen and paper will control-Z
subtitles in other languages please
cute and hideous are not mutually exclusive
Ever seen a hairless cat?
Hum. Your creating your own pareidolia.
Non è il mio modo di disegnare.