sketch (drawing)

Jesus and the Adulteress. A sketched figure

composition by Rembrandt

Charcoal sketch of willows by Thomas

Gainsborough

Sketch (drawing)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A sketch (ultimately from Greek σχέδιος – schedios, "doneextempore"[1][2][3]) is a rapidly executed freehand drawing that isnot usually intended as a finished work.[4] A sketch may serve anumber of purposes: it might record something that the artist sees, itmight record or develop an idea for later use or it might be used as aquick way of graphically demonstrating an image, idea or principle.

Sketches can be made in any drawing medium. The term is mostoften applied to graphic work executed in a dry medium such assilverpoint, graphite, pencil, charcoal or pastel. But it may alsoapply to drawings executed in pen and ink, ballpoint pen, watercolour and oil paint. The latter two are generally referred to as"water colour sketches" and "oil sketches". A sculptor might modelthree-dimensional sketches in clay, plasticine or wax.

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1 Applications of sketching2 Gallery3 See also4 References5 Sources6 External links

Applications of sketching

Sketching is generally a prescribed part of the studies of art students.[5] This generally includes making sketches(croquis) from a live model whose pose changes every few minutes. A "sketch" usually implies a quick andloosely drawn work, while related terms such as study, modello and "preparatory drawing" usually refer to morefinished and careful works to be used as a basis for a final work, often in a different medium, but the distinctionis imprecise. Underdrawing is drawing underneath the final work, which may sometimes still be visible, or canbe 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 daVinci and Edgar Degas which have become art objects in their own right, with many pages showing finishedstudies as well as sketches. The term "sketchbook" refers to a book of blank paper on which an artist can, (orhas already) drawn sketches. The book might be purchased bound or might comprise loose leaves of sketchesassembled or bound together.[6]

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

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Three draft sketches in sepiafor an equestrian monument,Leonardo da Vinci 1508-10

Sketch in pen and ink of anidea for a flying machinewith a spiral rotor, Leonardoda Vinci.

Sketch of a head in a paradehelmet, Michelangelo,c. 1500

Figure sketch in ink of twowomen teaching a baby towalk, Carel Fabritius,c. 1640

identify wanted people are called composite sketches. Street artists in popular tourist areas sketch portraitswithin minutes.[5]

Gallery

Subjects, styles and media


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Sketch in pencil and ink ofthe Piazetta, Venice,Canaletto, c. 1730

The Pasha, an ink sketch byJean-Honoré Fragonard, late1700s

An oil sketch of clouds byJohn Constable, 1821-22

A sketch of a landscape inpencil by Camille Corot,1870

Nocturene-Battersea

Bridge, a pastel sketch byWhistler, 1872

Le Bouchon, a brush and inksketch by Édouard Manet,1878

A girl in a rowing boat,pencil, ink and watercolour,Pierre-Auguste Renoir,1870s

A landscape sketch in brushand ink with washes, PaulCézanne, (1888-90)

Oil sketch Child in a hat

with a black rosette, MaryCassatt, 1910


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Sketch of a reclining nude inbrush and ink washes, LajosTihanyi, 1910

Girl Knitting by the Sea,pencil and watercolour byTheo van Doesburg, 1918

Two ink sketches of Krishna

playing the Flute, vanDoesburg, early 20thcentury

Sketch of a male nude inblack crayon, Egon Schiele,1918

Watercolour landscapesketch, John Weeks, c. 1950

Court sketch from the NewHaven Black Panther trials,Robert Templeton, 1971


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Digital sketch of Zen stones,by F. Cecconi, 2011

See also

DoodleMulti-SketchEtch A Sketch, a toy

References

sketch (http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0777830#m_en_gb0777830), on Oxford Dictionaries1. Douglas Harper. "Online Etymology Dictionary – Sketch".2. σχέδιος (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dsxe%2Fdios), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, AGreek-English Lexicon, on Perseus

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Diana Davies (editor), Harrap's Illustrated Dictionary of Art and Artists, Harrap Books Limited, (1990) ISBN0-245-54692-8

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Cf. Sue Bleiweiss, The Sketchbook Challenge, Potter Craft, 2012, pp. 10-13.5. Cf. Richard Brereton, Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators & Creatives, Laurence King, repr.ed. 2012.

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Sources

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

External links

Media related to Sketches at Wikimedia Commons

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