Sketch (drawing)

A sketch (ultimately from Greek σχέδιος – schedios, "done

extempore"[1][2][3]) is a rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not usually
intended as a finished work.[4] A sketch may serve a number of purposes: it
might record something that the artist sees, it might record or develop an idea
for later use or it might be used as a quick way of graphically demonstrating an
image, idea or principle.

Sketches can be made in any drawing medium. The term is most often applied
to graphic work executed in a dry medium such as silverpoint, graphite, pencil,
charcoal or pastel. But it may also apply to drawings executed in pen and ink,
ballpoint pen, water colour and oil paint. The latter two are generally referred Jesus and the Adulteress. A sketched
to as "water colour sketches" and "oil sketches". A sculptor might model three- figure composition by Rembrandt
dimensional sketches inclay, plasticine or wax.

Contents
Applications of sketching
Gallery
See also
References
Sources
External links
Charcoal sketch of willows byThomas
Gainsborough

Applications of sketching
Sketching is generally a prescribed part of the studies of art students.[5] This generally includes making sketches c(roquis) from a live
model whose pose changes every few minutes. A "sketch" usually implies a quick and loosely drawn work, while related terms such
as study, modello and "preparatory drawing" usually refer to more finished and careful works to be used as a basis for a final work,
often in a different medium, but the distinction is imprecise. Underdrawing is drawing underneath the final work, which may
sometimes still be visible, or can be viewed by modern scientific methods such as
X-rays.

Most visual artists use, to a greater or lesser degree, the sketch as a method of recording or working out ideas. The sketchbooks of
some individual artists have become very well known,[4] including those of Leonardo da Vinci and Edgar Degas which have become
art objects in their own right, with many pages showing finished studies as well as sketches. The term "sketchbook" refers to a book
of blank paper on which an artist can draw (or has already drawn) sketches. The book might be purchased bound or might comprise
.[6]
loose leaves of sketches assembled or bound together

The ability to quickly record impressions through sketching has found varied purposes in today's culture. Courtroom sketches record
scenes and individuals in law courts. Sketches drawn to help authorities find or identify wanted people are called composite sketches.
[5]
Street artists in popular tourist areas sketch portraits within minutes.

Gallery
 Subjects, styles and media

Three draft sketches in Sketch in pen and ink of an Sketch of a head in a

sepia for an equestrian idea for a flying machine parade helmet,
monument, Leonardo da with a spiral rotor, Leonardo Michelangelo, c. 1500
Vinci 1508-10 da Vinci.

Figure sketch in ink of two

women teaching a baby to
walk, Carel Fabritius,
c. 1640

Sketch in pencil and ink of

the Piazetta, Venice,
Canaletto, c. 1730
The Pasha, an ink sketch An oil sketch of clouds by
by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, John Constable, 1821-22
late 1700s

A sketch of a landscape in
pencil by Camille Corot,
1870

Nocturene-Battersea Le Bouchon, a brush and

Bridge, a pastel sketch by ink sketch by Édouard
Whistler, 1872 Manet, 1878

A girl in a rowing boat, A landscape sketch in Oil sketch Child in a hat

pencil, ink and watercolour, brush and ink with washes, with a black rosette, Mary
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, (1888-90) Cassatt, 1910
1870s
 Sketch of a reclining nude Girl Knitting by the Sea,
in brush and ink washes, pencil and watercolour by
Lajos Tihanyi, 1910 Theo van Doesburg, 1918

Two ink sketches of Krishna Sketch of a male nude in Watercolour landscape

playing the Flute, van black crayon, Egon Schiele, sketch, John Weeks,
Doesburg, early 20th 1918 c. 1950
century

Court sketch from the New

Haven Black Panther trials,
Robert Templeton, 1971

See also
Doodle
Multi-Sketch
Etch A Sketch, a toy
Urban Sketchers

References
1. sketch (http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0777830#m_en_gb0777830)
Archived (https://web.archive.
org/web/20110130051705/http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0777830)
2011-01-30 at the Wayback
Machine., on Oxford Dictionaries
2. Douglas Harper. "Online Etymology Dictionary – Sketch"(http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=sketch&sea
rchmode=none). Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20110919185934/http://www .etymonline.com/index.php?sear
ch=sketch&searchmode=none)from the original on 2011-09-19.
3. σχέδιος (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dsxe%2Fdi
os) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20110629113917/http://www
.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:t
ext:1999.04.0057:entry=sxe%2Fdios)2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine., Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott,A
Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
 4. Diana Davies (editor), Harrap's Illustrated Dictionary of Art and Artists
, Harrap Books Limited, (1990)ISBN 0-245-
54692-8
5. Cf. Sue Bleiweiss, The Sketchbook Challenge, Potter Craft, 2012, pp. 10-13.
6. Cf. Richard Brereton, Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators & Creatives
, Laurence King, repr. ed.
2012.

Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "article
name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links
Media related to Sketches at Wikimedia Commons

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