Thumbnailing, the process of sketching tiny versions of the pages of one's story, is generally done as a way to not get stuck in the details of a drawing before "the whole" is working and also as to get a good overview of how the pages work together.

Each spread consists of a page of 16 thumbnails of spreads of A4 pages, and a page for notes or free sketches. I chose to make the book with the pages to be used in landscape format, the thumbnail page above the notes page, as I feel that sketchbooks are more balanced in my hands this way rather than traditional.

The book also comes with 2 pages of short tips, or reminders, for the thumbnailing process.

These sketchbooks/notebooks are primarily for thumbnailing picture books as the thumbnails are small (each page about 2x3cm). Although it can be used by other illustrators and people who work with storytelling in print-media who like to work small or don't need so much detail. If you need something bigger you can try to turn the page and use each spread of page thumbs as one page instead (creating a 3x4cm page) but then you get a line going through the middle of the page. It's up to you! (In the future I may release notebooks with bigger thumbs if I get the need for it or there's a big enough interest for it)

There's the options of both hardcover or softcover note books. The hardcover ones of cause offering a bit more support to draw on but instead having a more stiff back (+being more expensive) so it's really up to oneself what ones preference is.