Tutorial - The MAGIC SketchBox by FionaCreates on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Overall

Vision

Originality

Technique

Impact

One of the more original resources about, this guide comes across as a page strait out of the sketchbooks of it's topic, this is no doubt deliberate, and effective, as it lures people in by using colour, varying fonts, and highlighting that you wouldn't see in a regular text-based guide.

Unfortunately I feel the guide suffers some messiness in it's design. While I'm sure this may also be a deliberate design decision to appeal to a broad age group, it is distracting. Arrows used negate this a little, but an overall alignment of images and text would make the guide even more straightforward.

I think the reasonably-short length of the guide, easy to read font, and whimsical sketches will ensure it's wide-spread impact.

Overall: The guide is simple and direct. It addresses a problem and offers the most viable solution, in a sequential way that would be easy for any-aged artist to follow.