Theses are my best thumbnail comps, and I know that they are not in color but when I first asked Rusty he said that it was fine if they weren't in color. I chose these thumbnails because I think they best demonstrate my ablility to show versital design ideas. However I like to keep my ideas simple so most are simple but still different. When I was first working on these thumbnails I wrote down everything that I could think of that made me think of chili or a cookoff or battle. I used these words and ideas to create my different thumbnails. After writing down words I came up with lots of pencil sketches. Most of those sketches had slight variations, moving the title or changing the chili. I decided on my favorite pencil sketches and then made marker thumbnails that are proportional to the poster size. Once my thumbnails were done they were chosen by someone to chose thier favorite and to make sugguestions. The thumbnail they chose is the one I took into final art production, but is not the one that I would have liked to do. I thought some of my other ideas were stronger.