Here on the left is a typical thumbnail of the kind I do. I don't like doing them, so they are very scribbly and small. The picture is an illustration of a little poem called The Blackbird. The sketch is probably just a few inches square. The other image is a black & white version of a coloured pastel picture (A3), in which the girl's dress is a muted acid yellow, but the rest of the picture is mostly brown and grey.
I was pleased with the finished picture, but now when I see them side by side, I feel a bit sad because the people in the first sketch are somehow way more interesting than the others. I feel sad that those characters got left behind in their line-drawing world. I abandoned them!
I know this is a perennial problem for artists and illustrators - initial quick sketches often have a lot more life in them than the worked-over painting that comes after.
So the answer is: don't put the two pictures side by side!
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