Mike: On the left page I took one of my silhouette drawings, scanned it into Photoshop, worked back into the shape with just a white brush at first, and then progressively added some other values. This shape/value approach to design leads me to different results than what is shown on the right page, which is a line-based approach from the same starting point.

Scott: I think this is a really strong spread by Mike. Quite often I observe students doing hundreds of thumbnail silhouettes and then they do nothing with them. They move on to doing more finished drawings and lose the dynamics of the original sketch. On this page you can see that by using Photoshop, Mike is able to work directly into his original thumbnail sketch. By observing each sketch closely you can see how the same silhouette can be interpreted in many different ways. On the opposite page, I really like the graphic design and detail design exploration Mike has done. It is also fun to explore whether a silhouette sketch is a front or rear view, as seen in the first two sketches on that page.