A thumbnail is a compositional sketch drawn deliberately too small to contain detail: a couple of centimetres, a few seconds, no more than three tones. At that size you cannot draw a face or letter a headline, so the only decisions available are the ones that actually determine whether the composition works: where the big masses sit, where the eye enters, how much of the frame is empty, and what the overall value structure is.

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