Thumbnail Sketching Template

Free

Just print it out onto card stock or mount it to some illustration board, cut it out, and tuck it into your sketchbook for easy access to quickly trace your canvas size for thumbnails.

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One of the common challenges students face is sizing their thumbnail sketch box correctly. Often, they quickly sketch a box to represent a certain canvas proportion and then create multiple sketches with great compositions, values, transitions, and variations.

However, when they move to the canvas, they realize their well-planned idea doesn’t fit because the canvas has different proportions. Oops.

To solve this, our downloadable template offers four different sizes that match the most common canvas proportions, helping you easily create a thumbnail box of the correct proportion.