How To Use Sketch In A Sentence

More particularly, in the hoodedness of her eyes, she reminded me of Malvina Schalkova, the Prague-born artist posthumously famous for the sketches and watercolors she made in Theresienstadt, and whose self-portrait, mirroring an infinity of sorrow, I first became familiar with when I visited Theresienstadt with Zoë. Kalooki Nights
As surveyor and topographer, he took on the task of making sketches of the stockades.
Making a flip book involves using the corner of a sketch pad to illustrate individual still frames of cartoon movement.
And then I got there and they're like, no, you're writing sketches for other people, which I had never done and I was really kind of bummed because I had auditioned like two or three times. Zach Galifianakis: A Comedic Actor Takes A Dark Turn
Many are illustrated with sketches and doodles.

And Buddhism and Hinduism were sketched out in the India issue: the less personalised and politicised nature of these religions makes it easier.
Years of early art, pencil sketches, architectural renderings, magazine covers, newspaper clippings and personal photographs are also on display in the new gallery.
Carol sprawls out on the bed as Simon tears off his cast triumphantly and sketches her, again and again.
The Absolutely Fabulous star will lead the cast of a new weekly whodunnit sketch. The Sun
The DVD set includes unaired, unrated stand-up sketches. TV on DVD
Sketch pale write, when you leave me after the story.
Anyone who has seen a revue of their sketches in Germany knows how deliriously funny their work can be.
But only one is a riot-grrrl guitar hero, turned NPR blogger, turned ascendant sketch comedian. ‘Portlandia’ star, guitarist Carrie Brownstein finds outlet for all her interests
I've had some luck getting laid with AdultFriendFinder (it sounds so much sketchier than it actually is, I promise), but if that's not what you're looking for, then stay away. Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
Close against them and overpeering their tops were hollyhocks and dahlias; against these stood at lesser height sweet peas, asters, zinnias, coreopsis and others of like stature; in front of these were poppies for summer, marigolds for autumn; beneath these again were verbenas, candytuft -- all this is sketched from memory, and I recall the winsome effect rather than species and names; and still below nestled portulaca and periwinkle. The Amateur Garden
They then painted the outlines of their face and facial features with a dark color of acrylic paint, tracing their pencil sketch through the Plexiglas.
Otherwise, the sketch is exactly accurate, and is here presented as the unprejudiced description and estimate of a foreign gentleman, who had no inducement, such as might be attributed to a Southern writer, to overcolor his portrait. A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
I then often do about three sketches for each character before I am happy with a final one.
Woke this morning with the grim realization that I had not polished the column - in fact, I'd just roughed it out, sketched out the basic ideas.
Many other sketches featured similar hard-men, many of them caricaturing the sort of psychopathic gangsters who would become prevalent in British films of the late 1990s.
There is no alcohol, but music and comedy sketches. Times, Sunday Times
Langorous horns, ticking guitars and muted keyboards have been added, sketching out long, graceful arcs of melody over the bubbling rhythms.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donald Trump, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and dozens of others on the long-running sketch series, tells GossipCop. com that “retired from the show last year.” “SNL” Conan/Leno Parody, Featuring Larry King & David Letterman [VIDEO]
Sketch out what you intend to do.
The characters themselves are little more than superficial sketches that become increasingly indistinguishable as the movie proceeds.
Luxembourg sketched out an acceptable compromise between Britain, France and Germany.
At first glance, Ryan's drawings look like half-finished sketches, with faint pencil marks still visible in the finished picture.
I decided to attempt to sketch what I had recently seen on a Sunday afternoon getaway in the mountains.
That concludes the rough sketch of the terrain; now begins the journey. PLACEBO: The Belief Effect
Adoption of this view requires a small modification to the sketch of the patterns of linguistic construction given in Chapter 1.
The whole combination of curves which go to make up this sketch is a curious arrangement of words inscribed with the utmost care, in the smallest of characters. The Filigree Ball
They weren't bad, but struck me as doodles, sketch book observations that have their own merit but lack a certain oomph.
The eparch sketched the sun-circle even so, to turn aside the evil omen. Bridge of the Separator
As well as sketching, oil and water colour painting, clay modelling is also available.
They were based on the sketches or accounts of at least one eyewitness. The Times Literary Supplement
The details are sketchy at the moment but i'm certain there is money to be made…
Police released a composite sketch of the suspect on Saturday.
The sketches included a self-portrait drawn by the artist in 1937.
The traditional gardeners' tools of spades, forks and trowels have been replaced by sketchpads, hammers and nails.
I made transparencies of their original sketches and we used overhead projectors to trace their designs on the walls.
The conceptual sketches of the Republic assault ships, dubbed in preproduction the "Jedi troop transport, " cleary indicate the future of galactic government.
They sketched a woman whose chest had been carefully cut open to reveal muscle and sinew.
The volumes are profusely illustrated and contain the most entertaining sketches in Mr. Stockton's _most entertaining_ manner. Sara Crewe or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's
Although I wasn't in the habit of talking to strangers, he didn't seem sketchy, so I walked over to the car and bent down to get to his eye level.
Making a flip book involves using the corner of a sketch pad to illustrate individual still frames of cartoon movement.
He is more perfect than any alleged "larrikin" or Bottle-O character I have ever attempted to sketch, not even excepting my own beloved Benno. The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
The paper was smoothed out, turned over, and marked off with our house of dreams, much like an architect's sketch of a one-story ranch house.
Sketches, skits, parodies, songs, poems and bad dancing describe this sparkling, lighthearted romp through the Bard's amazing repertory of works.
O'Driscoll does a great job of sketching out the characters, their relationships and filling their miserable lives with the kind of dread and unease that you can almost taste at the back of your tongue but when it comes time to move this story out of 'grim social realism' and into 'Horror' it all rather falls apart amidst random snowmen, which is a real pity as up until that ending, the story was going great guns. REVIEW: Black Static #16
When the actors aren't really inhabiting it and imagining, it can feel like a University revue sketch going on for hours.
Hosted by a crazed Japanese comedian and judged by a crack team of genuine Japanese schoolgirls, all of the show, save the sketches, is performed in Japanese.
Use tracing paper overlays and a soft pencil to sketch new landscape ideas and plans over your base map.
Though I can make a cursory record, a quick sketch of those first sensations and impressions that flood the traveler, I find these jottings to be incomplete - just notes.
A potentially amusing sketch is stretched into a full-length play that's painfully short on jokes. Times, Sunday Times
Another aid to understanding and recall is to make diagrams or sketches. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
To begin with, he sketches the canoe routes, touching on the fur trade and the penetration of the continent by the voyageurs.
They sketched woodland plants and trees and learned how to use a digital camera.
According to UsMagazine. com, Tish and rocker Bret Michaels (yes, the one with the brain hemorrhage and sketchy Billboard cover) were involved in an "on-the-sly romance" that began in February when Michaels and Cyrus released the duet "Nothing to Lose. Rumor Mill: Miley Cyrus's mom had an affair with Bret Michaels
These were lively, swift-moving knockabout sketches with a slightly risqué edge for its young audience.
The system can enable two or more designers to work on the same sketch collaboratively on the Internet.
There were sketchpads and drawing pencils, as well as other art materials on top of the dresser.
The text is well illustrated with excellent diagrams, sketches and figures.
Most guys who are going to build the world's fastest supercar first show people sketches and say what they are going to do. Times, Sunday Times
Nervous observers sketched doomsday scenarios, but the president received widespread bipartisan support.
She told him that while cleaning out an attic she had found an old box which, among other things, contained one of Osmond's scrap books of his cuttings from 1950 to 1954 and several sketches.
When the sketches were finished, the students painted them with tempera.
… reminds me of an image Deirdre Bair sketches in her biography of the game young Samuel used to play diving fearlessly from the tops of tall trees, crashing through branches to the ground. 2009 May 05 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
A number of oil sketches from nature in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, reveal his powers of lively observation.
Another feature adding to the dynamism of the sketch is the underpainting, which is applied in vigorous parallel strokes and allowed to show through.
She works in the glove department of Saks Fifth Avenue, returning home to a modest apartment, a cat, a sketch pad and her oppressive loneliness.
During the day his father tried to make as many sketches and oil paintings as possible.
I formed monstrous shapes in potter's clay, or cut them in trees; I filled my notebooks and the margins of my books with rough sketches, and I spent more than one night crying without reason. Wladyslaw Reymont - Autobiography
He sketched a glance at my plan and accepted it.
They sat in a circle, their sketch books on their laps or bended knees, though none of them seemed to be paying attention to their work.
The invention, resembling a film prop from the Hollywood sci-fi drama "Robocop", has been unveiled seven years after the pair first sketched the concept on the back of a beermat. Zee News : India National
SKETCHY SANTAS anta Claus has captured our imaginations for centuries as an enduring symbol of kindness and generosity. Sketchy Santas
This's a fair sketch of idiosyncrasy run amuck, but it's also a compelling portrait of mental and spiritual extremity.
We sketch the broad outlines of the evolution of this system. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
In a separate development, Harry told reporters on Wednesday that police had circulated sketches of four bomb suspects to Greater Jakarta police stations and substations.
From this process emerges spontaneous sketches and studied works from life or the imagination.
Else I should plunge _in medias res_ upon a sketch of De Quincey's life; were it not a rudeness amounting to downright profanity to omit the important ceremony of prelibation, and that at a banquet to which, implicitly, gods are invited. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
So in March I decided to fill a sketchbook, 90 pages, with New Yorker-style cartoons—one cartoon a day for three months. No excuses.
The poem is wonderfully funny in its sketch of our toey aggressiveness when we find ourselves overseas and out of our trees.
Bare tree limbs and branches are drawn against the winter sky, as whimsical as pencil sketches. Christianity Today
At Yumeta, pencil sketches are scanned into a computer, then a technician adds color digitally.
These fundamentals are applied to both the ideation sketching and rendering of automobile design concepts.
The film is not just a narrative on the paintings of Ravi Varma or just a biographic sketch, says the director.
Sketch maps were sometimes drawn in the large community meetings, but many surveyors reported greater success working with smaller groups of experienced woodsmen.
We sketch the broad outlines of the evolution of this system. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
Telling characters apart is made more difficult by the fact that Shepherd sketches a number of individuals with only a few strokes, concentrating his character-building skills on Sasha and the people immediately surrounding her. REVIEW: Sasha: A Trial of Blood & Steel (Book One) by Joel Shepherd
Unlike most of Rubens's head studies, the Glen Falls sketch cannot be connected with a known painting.
She was busy sketching out a palm tree at my art desk as we talked.
Sketching the plot of the film calls to mind any number of archetypal/hackneyed tales of fraternal rivalry, flight from danger, coming of age, and so on.
She finally paints Adele, a subject she believes to be as poised and beautiful as the Madonna, but crumples up the sketch and throws it away.
The present memoir will, therefore, simply comprise a brief sketch of the most interesting portion of Mr. Brown's history while in America, together with a short account of his subsequent cisatlantic career. Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met
Three of his sketches were drawn under fire while sitting in a sewage ditch in a poppy field. Times, Sunday Times
And yes, the Laugh-In tribute sketch felt longer than the Punic Wars. Emmys? Bad? Maybe. But Worst Ever? Come on.
She sketched the lines of his cheekbones and carefully shaded in the delicate curve of his upper lip.
In Cornell's library are her watercolor sketches for the 13 remarkable plates that illustrated the book that changed chemistry.
What I particularly like about these character sketches are their plotlessness, their roots as inspiration for the psychological novel, there generalizations into stereotypes and stock characters, and finally, their link to caricatures and physiognomy. 12 « June « 2008 « Jahsonic
He did some rough sketches of the costumes.
Describing comedy, especially sketch comedy, in a review is terribly difficult.
The ten chromolithographs produced from his oil sketches are compelling images of western exploration of the 1870s.
Serious readers will value the digressions spread among the condensed descriptions of famous events and brief biographical sketches.
Most oil paintings and pencil sketches portrayed women, classical dancers and children in different perspectives.
A sketch was made of the souterrain and it was found to be about 52 feet long.
Above that is my small case-bound sketch-book complete with elastic band to hold it shut against the water-buckled pages that are eternally anxious to escape.
In keeping with the genre's established recipe, most of its skits are more like comedy rituals than sketches, in that the payoffs usually involve the anticipated repetition of catchphrases.
Making a flip book involves using the corner of a sketch pad to illustrate individual still frames of cartoon movement.
‘I sketch a bit,’ she answered, his continued questions beginning to tickle her curiosity.
My mother made a sketch of my brother reading a book.
During the course of the voyage he made close to eighty oil sketches and numerous pencil drawings of ice in the form of icebergs, glaciers, packs, and floes under various conditions of light and atmosphere.
Cantor drew a rough sketch of his apartment on a napkin.
For a sketch of Witte, see Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution New York: Vintage, 1991, 31–32. The Return
I still have some original sketches: in one he's very upright and ogreish, in another he's on all fours and looks like a wild boar. How we made: Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler on The Gruffalo
The cartographer at his table beneath a shaded acetylene light drew maps and sketched, the magnetician was busy on calculations close by. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
The topics, however, being of monumental proportions, can only be cursorily sketched in less than three hundred pages.
While the debate rages on about the use of the N-word, what a lot of people are failing to see is the die-hard truth behind her sketches.
The text is well illustrated with excellent diagrams, sketches and figures.
The relatively subdued performances don't jive with the elaborate, ridiculous sketches.
The intensity of electric field lines can be observed from this sketch map.
This swelling border, added last, embraces all but the lower left corner of the centralized image, canceling out the lingering sense of rational space of "Sketch 1" and pushing the vestiges of the troika, St. George and a mountainous landscape firmly toward abstractness. Complementary Abstractionists
Entering the gallery, one encounters a whitewashed wall covered with croquis sketches of nude female figures.
After dinner I read one of Miss Mitford's hawthorny sketches out of "Our Village," which was lying on the table; they always carry one into fresh air and green fields, for which I am grateful to them. Records of a Girlhood
Please excuse any misquotes and the hasty sketch.
While the history of this participation remains sketchy and incomplete, individual contributions have not escaped notice.
Meanwhile, I purpose to give a sketch of TIMROD'S life, which, though comparatively brief, and to an exceptional degree uneventful, is still of interest, as throwing much light upon the character of his verses, and the development of his genius. The Poems of Henry Timrod.
Most important was his painting and sketching which always took priority. The Sun
Yet if he were to die tomorrow in a jeep accident, drowning in ditch water as Mike did, it would be fundamentally indecent and mean-spirited of me to sketch such a portrait.
Asked by the seaman's hometown to design a memorial, Schutte prepared a number of sketches and maquettes, some fully sculptural.
The artist has sketched out a design for the new school.
He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time.
All three DVDs contain director's filmographies and biographies, a hazy, mostly unenlightening historical sketch of the pink film, and unremovable, headache-inducing ‘white-on-white’ subtitles.
Tara just looked at his face while Rob started to open his satchel and take out a small sketch book.
The surreally fresh creel of sketch comedy was one of the freshest and inventive productions of the year - one that deserves to be remounted again, or toured.
Soon after this I sketched a new scene for the "Donkey's Skin;" it was one representing the liassic period. The Story of a Child
With that thought, I got a hold of our chief character designed, Todd Tennant, and asked him to sketch up a waitron. More new Guidolon sketches
The portfolio mostly held unfinished charcoals or watercolors, some activities to work on flowing lines and facial expressions, and a few sketches and watercolors of different types of flowers.
The details are sketchy at this stage, but I understand that both Desmond and Murray are to be interviewed about the plan on this evening's Scotsport Plus.
Carlyle didn't take much persuading to make a cameo appearance, and the resultant sketch - on the set of a war movie - is a riot of hamminess, spitting and bad German pronunciation.
Off-stage event sketching will continue to rev up the young crowd.
The two-hour extravaganza features comedy sketches, ridiculous games and live music. Times, Sunday Times
She absently tapped her artistry pencil on the sketch paper as she stared out onto the whitened garden with unseeing eyes.
The sketch show format inevitably feels a little disjointed, while satirical targets such as birth control and organised religion now look pretty tame. Times, Sunday Times
In her studio, she creates small sketches and color studies based on her photos.
Behind the jar, a sketch pad is peopled with figurative roughs, historical drafts - the preliminaries of art and history, of cultural recognition.
This is the sketch he has always wanted to do - he has always said that to me. The Sun
After all, a vignette is a simple character sketch, and Ballard himself has always been assaulted by critics for his poor characterization. Ballardian » ‘I really would not want to fuck George W. Bush!’: A Conversation with J.G. Ballard
Throughout the series she was always sketching. Times, Sunday Times
It was like one of those Monty Python sketches where a man in a suit of armour walks in and slaps everyone with a rubber chicken.
Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones.
His character sketches of the principal players are sharp, perceptive and often very funny.
Tassels hung from her ceiling fan and sketches were still tacked to the wall.
The populace had grown so hardened to artists that gruff-voiced lesbians in corduroy breeches and young men in Grecian or medieval costume could walk the streets without attracting a glance, and along the Seine banks Notre Dame it was almost impossible to pick ones way between the sketching-stools. Inside the Whale
She quickly blocked out a sketch of the construction site.
Before him on the ground he felt the bundle which Sarah had fetched out of the house - his own knapsack and sketchbook - and affrighted, he stood upright again.
At one time, artists used live models to sketch and paint portraits.
He provides a sketch of a creature with the head of an elephant, a fishlike body with a camel hump, four legs like a lion, and a forked tail like a fish.
SRINAGAR, India - Indian authorities have filed charges against Kashmir education officials over a textbook for first graders that illustrates the word "oppressor" with a sketch resembling an Indian police officer. StarTribune.com rss feed
I will initially sketch a context to help situate the care of dementia patients and the termination of their treatment.
Sketching a farewell wave to the peaked cap, he drove carefully away from the docks and headed, as he'd been told, for the M4. TICKLED PINK
Carleen the Dancehall Queen, a character she created for her sketches there, morphed into Novelette, a coiffeuse who can tell everything about her clients by their hair.
In three centuries, already some outline has been sketched, rudely adumbrating the future settlement destined for the planet, some infant castrametation has been marked out for the future encampment of nations. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
White primed hardboard is the usual support on which the initial drawing is sketched with charcoal. Improve Your Landscape Painting
Once a suitable thumbnail sketch was chosen, I had my students enlarge their drawings by gridding the thumbnails into four quadrants.
Beside this group of, in every sense of the word, 'artless' little country girls, I will now set one -- in the best sense of the word -- 'artful' little country girl, -- a sketch by Gainsborough. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
Amongst them was a little exhibition of mineralogy and archaeology, maps and plans, sketches and croquis, at the Hippodrome. The Land of Midian
I will initially sketch a context to help situate the care of dementia patients and the termination of their treatment.
I sat down with pen and paper and began drawing, and sketched out my design.
When she returned he had taken up the sketchbook and was looking at it. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
Can you give me a quick thumbnail sketch of the kinds of-or the most common kinds of complaints you receive?
The first headmistress of Altrincham Grammar School for Girls was once a tutor to royal children and the school is to be given priceless sketches of the Queen Mother and the Prince of Wales by Salford artist Harold Riley to mark the occasion.
The framed Jongkind sketch swung away from the wall to reveal the door to a small safe. Angel With No Hands
Rembrandt's drawing, a plan for a painting, is a simple sketch of the artist alone with his easel.
It was anger set to music and given a bitter sense of humour in sketches.
We took a bottle of wine to the flat where he was staying, and he showed me the sketches of Schubert's last symphony, uncompleted on his death.
This seriously good novel tells the story of M, a man with a sketchy past and even sketchier morals.
Design sketch teaching should be carried through mechanical, natural and imagist teaching methods as the teaching operation sequences.
At that point my theological parallel was brushed aside by the realisation that this was straight out of the Monty Python dead parrot sketch. Times, Sunday Times
Or been caught in the middle of a sketchy overlap situation in a miss-and-out race at the local velodrome for those of you "trackies" that don't know what that is, it's the origin of that fugly thing between your legs sans the 1"-risers and Ourys. Urban Alienation: Cultural Carnage and Alleycats
Opened flat, the double page size is 7 x 5.5 inches, quite large enough for an effective sketch should I want to get serious.
The sketch involved a grown man going back to his boyhood school. Christianity Today
This pair of fast-paced, off-centre sketches masterminded by Reeves and Mortimer features a cast of comedy stars.
So they were stuck for an actor to do two sketches: they were practically stopping cleaners to ask them to do them, but then some kind soul suggested me.
While details are still sketchy, the show looks to be a very extended and extremely sensational commercial.
Her new show features hilarious sketches and a host of top celebrity guests. The Sun
In fact, for a long time, Bourget rose at 3 a.m. and elaborated anxiously study after study, and sketch after sketch, well satisfied when he sometimes noticed his articles in the theatrical 'feuilleton' of the 'Globe' and the The French Immortals Series — Complete
Trailer highpoints for me included the “Pit and the Pendulum Power Tool” business, the black and white flash back to the woman “from over the road” for those of you not paying attention, and the amusing photofit sketches. The Stepfather Remake Movie Trailer | /Film
You talked about there being sketches that you had to really go to bat for.
First, as mentioned earlier, the portions of the Lexicon that encapsulate plot elements or sketch plotlines bear no comparison with the guidebook in Twin Peaks, whose plot summaries giving "elaborate recounting of plot details" were found to constitute an "abridgement" of the original work. Unalog
The controversial sketch of Saraswati, for example, is an elegant white-on-black line drawing, which makes the viewer reflect on the old Indian tradition of "nirakara," or formlessness. A Portrait of India's Intolerance
The Black Knight sketch has also been mentioned in connection with this controversy – with opposing candidates for who is the hackee and who is the hacker. Hits « Climate Audit
If the sketch was valued, it was not for its intrinsic formal qualities, but rather because it offered visible evidence of something conceived, but not yet realized.
Some of these characters are important, some just drift through the film; all are sketched funnily and realistically.
However, 20 years on, the story resurfaces and it becomes apparent that the truth is sketchier. The Sun
Presenting this sketch as a public performance in Belfast, Mayne remembers, was ‘a daring venture.’
The first day of class I arrived at the studio room, and found a young man at a drawing table, sketching out different variations of the Walkman ® he was designing.
Details very sketchy at this hour but U.S. officials confirming overnight there was what they call a precision missile strike against a target in southern Somalia near the border with Kenya, a target that they say was in an area where there were known terrorists, al Qaeda terrorists with affiliations. CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2008
For an exhibition entitled Turner at Petworth, they are joined by about seventy sketches, watercolors, gouaches, and oil paintings Turner made of the house, parkland, and gardens.
The lore's a bit sketchy when it comes to details like that. A Time of War

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