Keyhole art study
I’m not really a huge fan of thumbnailing. For those who don’t know – thumbnailing is a technique that helps artists compose their pieces. They create a bunch of tiny ‘thumbnail’ sketches of the same piece to see what looks best. Call me an amateur, but I honestly don’t see why I can’t do that on one piece of paper with an eraser and pencil. I much prefer to draw and re-draw the same elements and move them around on one canvas rather than working up a bunch of different thumbnails. I’ve used the thumbnail technique a few times, and the end result is usually the same – rather than having one piece I’m interested in working on, I have several sketches I want to finish lol.
This is the result of one such session of generating thumbnails. I no longer have the original thumbnail sketches, but I created two pieces based off the same basic concept of a keyhole framing element in the illustraiton. One is done in my usual full-color style and one is done in a woodblock print style. Enjoy 🙂
