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Sketchbook

Sketchbook \Sketch"book`\, n. A book of sketches or for sketches.

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sketchbook

n. 1 A book or pad with blank pages for sketching; a sketch pad. 2 A book of printed sketches.

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sketchbook

n. a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn [syn: sketch block, sketch pad]

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Sketchbook

A sketchbook is a book or pad with blank pages for sketching and is frequently used by artists for drawing or painting as a part of their creative process. The exhibition of sketchbooks at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in 2006 suggested that there were two broad categories for classifying sketches

  • Observation: this focuses on the documentation of the external world and includes many such travel and nature studies and sketches recording an artist's travels.
  • Invention: this follows the artists' digressions and internal journeys as they develop compositional ideas
Sketchbook (manga)

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Totan Kobako. First serialized in the April 2002 issue of Comic Blade, the individual chapters are collected and published by Mag Garden. Chapters have also appeared in Comic Blade Masamune. An anime adaptation, under the title Sketchbook ~full color's~, aired in Japan between October 2 and December 25, 2007. The story revolves around a group of high school students, mostly female, in the art club at their high school. The main character is a young, shy and quiet girl named Sora Kajiwara who goes through life at her own pace.

Sketchbook (disambiguation)

Sketchbook may also refer to:

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Usage examples of "sketchbook".

She turned the pages of the sketchbook and looked at the inky drawings of crossbeams and braces or turrets and buttresses, and she saw the measurements and notes, none of which meant anything to her.

All that hot summer they had played at living the country life: He and Lukan had gone fishing in the weed-choked little river that irrigated the vineyards and Elysia had painted, wandering off through the fields with her sketchbook, easel, and parasol.

Inside, he grabbed two sketchbooks off his drawing board and then held them flat like a tray beside his supplies table.

He drew on his sketchbooks from Italy for inspiration and presented two seemingly besotted lovers amidst a ruin of Corinthian pillars and suitably archaic vegetation.

Johnson's Dictionary, Jamie's ledgers and account books, several of Brianna's sketchbooks, and the slender buckram-bound journal in which Roger recorded the words of unfamiliar songs and poems acquired at ceilidhs and hearthsides.

While she went to fetch her sketchbook and charcoals, Lucien stepped back outside and dispatched Marc and the other lads to various posts around the first floor of the terrace house to keep watch for any sign of trouble.

He picked up the cereal box that sat beside Seth's open sketchbook.

Selecting a colored pencil, she opened her sketchbook and began to draw.

One afternoon he found himself in the dim, shabby kitchen, perched on one of the rickety chairs that had come with the house, a felt-tip pen in his hand, the sketchbook on the table before him.

She stowed her sketchbook in her carisak and slid her sun hat back on her head—she’d slipped it onto her back when its shade had interfered with her view of the scatid.

Trevor usually drew comics in his sketchbook, but Bobby had used looseleaf paper for Birdland.

Dan opened the sketchbook to the pages he’d roughed out the week before they moved.

Closing the sketchbook, she set it aside, and took the chair opposite me, stirring her tea with a small silver spoon.