pencil sketches
Rough graphite artwork
Pencil sketches are drawings made with pencil, typically quick or preliminary rather than finished works.
Artists use pencil sketches to capture ideas, study subjects, or plan larger pieces: Her sketchbook was filled with pencil sketches of faces seen on the subway.
The term emphasizes the informal, exploratory quality of the work.
- shadingDepicting light and darkness
- graphiteCrystalline carbon allotrope
- blendingCombining into uniformity
- soft edgesIndistinct, gradual boundaries
- cross-hatchingOverlaid line shading
erasers · contour drawing · fine lines · line · rough draft · concept art · quick study · thumbnail · fixatives · mechanical pencils · underdrawing · book illustrations · stippling · paper · mark · strokes · artist · portrait
- drawing typesink drawings, life drawings, figure studies, portrait drawings, botanical drawings
- art worldartist, painter, painting, paintings, sculpture
- picture bookspicture book, picture books, illustrations, storybook, storybook art
medium and technique
pencil sketchesoil paintings
Artwork using pigmented oils
watercolors · acrylic paintings · frescoes · ink drawings · ink paintings