Turning a thumbnail into a perfect sketch - Fresco Tutorial

- [Instructor] Take a look at your thumbnails. Which one feels like the strongest design? Choose that design, and let's isolate it on its own layer. Here's how. I'm going to use the selection tool to draw around the design, hit the Layer Actions to select Copy, and then hit the Layer Actions again to select Paste Selection on a New Layer. I'm going to hide all of the other thumbnails by using the eye icon. And let's resize the canvas so that it's more focused on space for drawing our character. Click on the gear icon, choose Size, and turn the height to 3,500 pixels. I'm going to move my reference off the screen just a little bit, and then hit Done. Select the layer with your thumbnail you like the best and use to move tool to position and scale up your thumbnail, like this. Now our thumbnail looks pretty messy, right? We're going to need to fill in the details with a nice sketch. This class isn't about learning how to draw, but there are classes available on LinkedIn Learning that you can choose from. You'll want to use your own experience for this section, thinking about anatomy and about our reference. I'm going to reduce the thumbnail sketch opacity using the layer properties here to about 17%. You might need a different opacity level. It just depends on your thumbnail. Now we'll create a new layer on top for our sketch by clicking on the plus button on the right. Select your pencil tool. If you added it to your Favorites, it'll be right here, but you didn't, you can find it under All and the category Sketching. Using the thumbnail as a guide for my imagination, I'm going to start filling in details on our new layer. This stage is a little bit of a tug of war. You want to keep a beautiful clarity of your thumbnail but add the crucial details and stay true to anatomy. It's an eternal struggle, and sometimes when I get frustrated with a sketch, I just start over from the beginning. Here's my final sketch. You can see in some places it looks a lot different from the thumbnail. Let's actually take a look at that thumbnail, so you can see how much different. I made decisions based on my knowledge of clothing and anatomy, always keeping in mind how I could incorporate the reference that we chose. You should feel free to do that too. The most successful design is one that you believe in. So if you feel inspired to change an element of the thumbnail, you should follow your heart. Then you'll have a design you really believe in. Don't forget about the eraser tool right here, where you can remove extra lines and add clarity. Press and hold to use different textured erasers. As I'm sketching, I flip the canvas often. This is a trick that helps make sure your sketch is well-balanced and not skewed any particular way. You can access it by clicking on the gear icon in the top-right corner and selecting Flip Canvas. I recommend doing this several times throughout the course of sketching, so you have a better final result.