What+is+a+Sketch?

**WHAT IS A SKETCH? ﻿ **
A sketch, in art terms, can be: A way of practicing and refining your skills in drawing and mark making • An exploratory drawing – exploring how something works/might work • A quick drawing – e.g. sketching in public tends to be time‐limited rather than open‐ended • A rough description – it’s OK if they lack detail; don’t fill the page or are not even completed • A record of something you’ve seen • A record of one or more aspects of something you want to develop into a painting e.g. a color study • A preliminary study – for a later painting (done before you start to check how your painting will work rather than as an under drawing on your final support) • A sketch may be an imaginative or a creative interpretation of reference material – but it does not involve meticulous copying of a reference photo. Very often a sketch is a study of a subject that the artist can see – and consequently involves working and drawing from life.