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Thumbnails for Double Cross Chapter Three, Page 96

🕑 Added 2021-05-19 02:31:57 +0000 UTC

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william clapie

"Thumbnail Biography" comes to mind as a phrase I have read. LOL, didn't really expect an answer but, well, here we are!

QueBijoux

Interesting question. Per Wikipedia: "The word 'thumbnail' is a reference to the human thumbnail and alludes to the small size of an image or picture, comparable to the size of the human thumbnail. While the earliest use of the word in this sense dates back to the 17th century, the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms is reported to have documented that the expression first appears in the mid-19th century to refer to 'a drawing the size of the thumbnail'. The word was then used figuratively, in both noun and adjective form, to refer to anything small or concise, such as a biographical essay. The use of the word 'thumbnail' in the specific context of computer images as 'a small graphical representation, as of a larger graphic, a page layout, etc.' appears to have been first used in the 1980s."

Alex Woolfson

Artists often refer to these as "preliminary sketches." I picked up the term "thumbnail sketches" from Winona Nelson, the artist I worked with on Artifice. Back in those days, we were working pencil on paper and her preliminary layouts of the pages were, in fact, small "thumbnail-sized" sketches. Like 8 pages of comics on a single 8.5" x 11" piece of paper.