ART 220 04: Thumbnail Review

Thursday, September 3, 2026 · Critique

We start in the L. Mendel Rivers Library: what it holds on design and illustration that you can use as reference, and how to use its flatbed scanner on the main level, which is free. Then back to the room. Thumbnails pinned up and read as a group. We are looking for three different concepts, not three versions of one, and for whether an idea still reads at stamp size. Leave with one direction chosen.

Read before this class

- Mankoff, Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon. about 21 minutes, watch before class if you can, the first ten minutes are shown in the room. - Lieu, Thumbnail Sketches: Tutorial for Self-Taught Artists and Beginners. shown in class, and under Materials below. - Lieu, Guide to Thumbnail Sketches. the written guide behind the video, for anyone sent back to re-thumbnail. - White, How to do 50 Thumbnail Sketches. optional, after class.

Due

- Concepts and thumbnails.

Assigned today

- Vector drafts, due Thursday, September 10, 2026.

Materials

- [Thumbnail Sketches, Art Prof](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQnrWGUlFpQ). The video shown in class. Watch it here or open it on YouTube.

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Class 04 of 28, ART 220, Digital Illustration, Charleston Southern University, Fall 2026.