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Hi, I'm Maria, I'm the graphic designer here, and I make the thumbnails for all our channels.

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Today I'm gonna show you some of the drawings that the writers usually send me

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before I start making the thumbnails, so that I have a better idea of what they want.

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We're gonna start with this one, which is pretty funny.

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This drawing was made by Adam.

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I remember perfectly. Actually, I think I have here the screenshot

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of his reaction, and he was like, I was too scared to draw his arms and hands.

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Basically, I don't know, I think we ended up not having this as a thumbnail.

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I don't remember, but I think it's pretty funny.

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I don't know how they managed to do all the details

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of the face and everything, and try to do everything to make the idea more clear to me.

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This one, I think, was James. So this was a thumbnail that we did,

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and maybe he was like, oh, can we add a hand to make it even better?

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I don't know, I have so much fun looking at these drawings

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every time, but I love when people try to do,

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because I'm an artist and graphic designer, illustrator as well, so I love when people

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also tries to make creative stuff. Even writers that usually,

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I mean, they are not used to make drawings.

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So I find it, I don't know, pretty interesting and funny. This one, I remember, and it's like a kind of recent video.

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So this was Jordan's guidance, like, okay, we're having Linus scared

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because the coke is falling into the PC. So he tried to, like, okay, we're having the PC,

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just like the view of the top of the PC,

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and this was the final result, pretty similar.

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Of course, like, we did a lot of multiple shots of the PC

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and just the coke, and then I Photoshopped all the, like, the coke falling into the PC.

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The face is pretty similar. I'm more focused about what, what, is that an eyebrow

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or is that, like, an exclamation point for his eyes? I don't know, not that you mentioned,

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because, I mean, these are the eyes, but maybe he did these eyes first.

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You know, when you are a kid and you used to, like,

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draw the eyes as just, like, sticks.

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I don't know. I get that. What's the, what's the dot?

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I don't know. We can ask Jordan, I don't know.

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But good job, Jordan. The idea gets really clear when I have these kind of things.

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This is an example of how should you usually be.

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But for, I have here, an example of, like,

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very weird drawings.

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Riley was like, okay, make something like this.

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I'm like, okay. Maybe it made a little bit more of sense in the moment.

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He thumbs it up. Yes. Maybe it made sense in the moment,

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but sometimes I just scrunch at this because it's just, like, okay, just a couple of squares

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and, like, I don't know, it's just interesting how they managed to, like, explain something.

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You know, it's really difficult sometimes to get into the mind of other people

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or how they're imagining how to make things.

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Okay, here I have one of my cadres.

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This one was for this video about Google Chrome,

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comparison between, like, Google Chrome on ARC

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and then Jonathan did this drawing for me,

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trying to explain, like, okay, we have, like, the tabs here and everything.

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We did, like, a really good job with this one, I feel.

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Like, we tried to, like, make the exact UI of ARC browser here

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and, like, combine it with the Google Chrome tabs. I really like how it turned out.

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So sometimes, of course, there's people who, like,

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spend their time drawing the face, the eyes, the glasses,

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you know, like, and sometimes, I mean, I don't blame them

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because, of course, they're busy doing other things, but they just, like, draw circles like this

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and they're like, okay, here's James, here's the garage door open

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and here's the picture of a hacker and then it's just, like, circles.

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Do you prefer this style or do you prefer, like, someone actually drawing it?

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I mean, of course, I prefer, like, the real drawing.

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Of course, not perfect, but they are doing this just to have, like, a general, for me,

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to have a general idea. Of course, I prefer, like, more details,

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but it's not extremely necessary.

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I won't, like, ask everyone, like, please send me a bunch of artworks

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because I know everyone is busy doing other things.

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For example, I have other one here.

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This was Plouffe or Wish Setup. Yeah, like, the projector and everything they did

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at Linus's house. Yeah, this one. Yeah.

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Actually, for this one, I remember, I was like, I don't know, I see here, like, a camera and, like, people,

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but, like, I don't understand why, like, Linus over here,

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you know, like, just, like, his eyes,

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and I didn't know what that meant. So I...

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It looks like a bread or, like, a bed.

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I don't know! So I remember I asked him, like, he was like, okay, no, these are, like, the chairs and the projector

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and then Linus's face here, and I was like, maybe it should be better if we have, like,

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Linus on one side and then the projector and other stuff on the other side.

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Might be better so it doesn't look really busy.

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So we ended up doing, like, kind of the general idea

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and my suggestion that was, like, okay, having just the full face of Linus on one side,

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other, the other stuff on the other side. It was a really, really recent one for Tech Linus.

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Oh, yeah, okay, yeah. So usually Riley's the one who sends me a lot of drawings,

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usually, because this is not, like, mandatory for everyone.

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It's just, like, when I feel like it's better for them

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to explain me in a better way, like, what is their concept going to be,

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I ask them, like, hey, can you draw something for me

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for me to understand what you are thinking? But Riley usually does it, like, 99% of the times.

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For Tech Linus and Game Link, I remember I was laughing,

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like, by my own here because I was like, what is this?

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Like, all of these lines, I was like, what? And then he came to the door,

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like, through the door, like, I don't know, two minutes after that, he was like, I'm sorry,

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I know this looks weird, but this is, like,

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the wallpaper of Windows 11, I guess, I think.

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And then this is the logo, and then half of the logo is, like, original colors,

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and I was like, oh, okay, now I understand.

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Like, he was like, yes, sorry. I was, like, trying to, of course, make this,

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but, of course, he's not gonna do it exactly the same,

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but it's just, like, really funny. I remember he used to do, like, the whole face thing,

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for example, this one. It's also Riley's drawing here,

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and he made, like, the face with the glasses, and it was so cute.

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I remember it was like, I love this. But then, of course, after doing the same thing

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over and over, he was like, okay, I'll just do a circle

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and name it James or Riley. I love how the nose says Riley, but it's the nose.

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This one was for a Samsung video. Oh, my God, so difficult to sometimes

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search for Techling thumbnails because they have lots of colors and things,

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but, yeah, for Techling, it's super useful

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because, as you can notice, we have, like, lots of layers, transparencies,

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and, like, sometimes Riley needs, like, a lot of assets to be on the thumbnail.

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As we have to, like, layer them in certain way,

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those drawings help me a lot when trying to, like, make thumbnails

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for Techling and gaming. Okay, this is another Riley,

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and I also scrinched what he said. So this one was also a pretty recent thumbnail here.

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So, yeah, I love how they are, like, okay,

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I am not going to make, like, Apple logos all over, just doing circles and all the explanation,

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like, not circles, Apple logos. This is not for a...

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I mean, it is for a thumbnail, but it's not, like, a whole drawing

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of how it's supposed to be. Of course, I don't remember which thumbnail was this,

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but I just laugh because it's just, like,

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a line that does this, but I don't know how he's imagining in his head

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how it's gonna be flipped, but I know it's difficult to explain,

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like, how to explain you wanted to rotate it up,

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element in a certain way, like... I mean, he did his best, so bonus points for that.

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And this was a thumbnail about, like, some cables.

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I'm more curious about this triangle mouth.

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That's a new one. That's a new shape for a mouth.

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One of the first thumbnails I made, if I remember.

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Oh, this one. Why is there two faces? I don't know.

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I don't know. I don't remember, and I don't know.

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Maybe that, like, he's happy and then he's sad.

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I don't know. I don't know. As you can notice, thumbnails have changed

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since I've been working here. Like, before I started with a certain, like, style,

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kind of, like, replicating what we did, like, years and years ago,

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but then I started to, like, search for a different style,

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more, like, realistic backgrounds and more, like, modern,

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like, thinking about, like, other careers, what they are doing.

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So that's really important to, like, evolve and not just stay on what we did, like, years and years ago.

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Pretty happy with what we have been doing. I think ShortCircuit is the best example of ShortCircuit.

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Oh, yes! ShortCircuit. Today's been very, like...

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A couple of, like, months ago, I was talking to Jake Bell, who was like,

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you know what, I feel sometimes there's, like, a lot of colors and stuff,

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and, like, I don't know, I wanted to make it more clean and, again, modern,

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to, like, think about, like, what's everyone doing in 2024, 2023,

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at the time. Yeah, I'm trying to have, like, bigger shots of the products,

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cleaner backgrounds, steel with the ShortCircuit colors, this one.

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I think it was Jordan, as well, for the Steam Deck video.

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Yeah, so he was like, okay, we want to show the back of the Steam Deck.

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Oh, I love when it tries, like, to fix things, because even though, like, it doesn't matter if the eyes are different or whatever,

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like, I won't care about that, but they, like, try to, like, okay, no, this didn't work,

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so they try to fix things. It's just so cute. I love it.

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Yeah, I think that's pretty much it. I mean, I have a couple more, but is there, from Thumbnails,

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we didn't end up doing? Like, this one, I think it was, like...

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That looks like a Mac Address. That looks like a Mac Address, but it was actually, I think, an LTT.

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I think this is a Jordan drawing, if I remember correctly, but...

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Okay, so I'm ready for your questions now. Like, which creators do you, like, watch a lot to, like, take their,

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like, see what they're doing with Thumbnails? So I actually follow some channels here for inspiration.

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Ryan Trehan, I really love his Thumbnails.

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I mean, it's different content from ours, totally different,

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but I love the way he uses color.

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I don't know, it's really, like, sparing for me.

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This guy, it's more into, like, take videos like us,

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and I got inspiration for him for the ShortCircuit channel,

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because I used to see, like, things like this, like, floating elements

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and, like, clean backgrounds and colors. And I thought, okay, maybe we can do something kind of similar

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for ShortCircuit, and I think it will work really well.

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Right now, all of our channels, I kind of, like,

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I'm trying to have them really clean and modern,

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but I wish they were even cleaner.

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I mean, I know, of course, we need, like, Linus' face

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and everything to be more recognizable, but... Classic.

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The classic. Also, like, use of color, arrows, things like that.

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I'm always searching for, like, new inspirations.

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Also, Mr. Who's the Boss, sometimes I like to see what he's doing.

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I think the really successful video that we did for the Mom & Pop shop...

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Yeah, that one was really good. I liked that one. I think it was, like, a kind of a styling between Mr. Who's the Boss

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and, like, Mr. Beast kind of thing.

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He loves to, like, have, like, multiple products on the side

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and, like, his face around it. And I feel we did kind of, I mean, of course, we have our own style

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and our own way to do it, but, like, I got inspiration from there.

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And for this one, especially, the body of Linus is actually Mr. Beast's body.

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So Linus, for this one, was like... Because I had his body, like, his, of course, his original body,

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and he was like, you know what? Just grab Jim's...

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I think he won't care. Put my face on it. Like, I was like, okay, sure. I love the colors.

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Like, you can see a lot of things, but at the same time, it's not super busy.

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I don't know. I really like it. Which channel's your favorite to do the thumbnails for?

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Oh, so difficult! I feel like MAC dresses more your personal favorite.

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Yes. It's more artistic compared to, like, every single one.

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Yes, totally. Like, and for MAC, I dress the creator process is different from the other channels

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because I have, like, the time to talk with Jonathan about it,

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and we sit down together, and we talk about, like, brainstorm about different ideas.

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Of course, with LTT, we have more videos coming out,

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and it's not that easy to, like, sit with the writer every single time and, like, brainstorm.

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So the process is different. The writer brainstorms with Linus kind of thing,

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and then they send me also, like, the guidance for me to, like, give ideas if I have other ideas.

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So it's a little bit more different, but with Mac Address, yeah. I am, like, 100% involved from the start to finish up the thumbnail.

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Like, I shoot also the thumbnails for, like, the pictures for the thumbnails.

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I don't know why, like, Jonathan is really open to, like, new ideas.

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Like, when we did this one that is, like, the meme of, like, this is fine, the dog.

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Yeah, like, open to crazy things, and I love that.

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And I love when we have also, like, we make, like, recreation of art,

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or this one, like, I really love, like, art references.

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So then, I guess the hardest question is, which one is your favorite thumbnail of all time?

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Oh, my God. You probably make a thousand of them, but is there any that comes to mind that, like,

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oh, this was, like, my favorite to make? Maybe because, like, it's a cool story, or, like, maybe it just looks nice?

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Honestly, love, I'm looking at it, and I think that was,

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that is my favorite of all time, and it's this one. So with Jonathan, we were, like, we need to make it happen.

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So we took the pictures and everything, and, yeah, at the moment,

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some people were, like, okay, maybe that will work, or maybe should we do another thing?

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But I was fighting for it. I'd never give up. I was, like, we need to release the video with this thumbnail.

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And then, after some time, we changed the thumbnail, because I remember we had a different thumbnail for YouTube.

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On Floatplane, we had this one. People on Floatplane and Reddit were, like,

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we love this idea, we love this thumbnail. I was, like, yes, please, we need to have it on YouTube.

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So we changed it back to this one on YouTube,

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and it did really well, I think. It was really cool because it was the first time we did, like,

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something completely out of the normal process and everything.

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And, of course, Mac Address and, like, Apple products. And I mean, you see my whole set up is Apple, so...

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Okay, Floatplane, thanks for watching. I hope you liked this video, and let us know if you like

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this kind of content, this kind of videos. Yeah, see you in the next one.

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Bye!