What is "sketching"

Usage examples of "sketching".

Sitting by the piano equipped with his sketching pad, extracting mana from soft lead, he followed the bar exercises with swift eyes and was soon able to transfer the various positions to paper more pleasingly than the boys and girls, some of them members of the child ballet at the Stadttheater, could perform them at the bar.

Many years ago I spent several weeks at Varallo sketching and painting on the Sacro Monte.

This was while she was sitting on the black sands of the beach, sketching the scene as the workmen swarmed over the careened hull of the Arcturus.

SKETCH-BOOK One morning the sisters were sketching by the side of Willey Water, at the remote end of the lake.

Across from me, Brenda was busily sketching and in a minute she showed us: a slim, leggy blonde with my hair and face, dressed in a skin-tight black bodysuit, a revolver strapped to her hip, a bow and quiver at her back, and a knife in a sheath at her calf.

Accordingly she set her campstool not far away from him, and began her sketching in a vigorous, characteristic fashion.

In total solitude, Jess sat for hours stitching the intricate designs, sketching with his mind.

Elysia laid down her sketching book and handed the gingerbread, wrapped in a clean piece of linen, to Giorgi, who unwrapped it and started munching eagerly.

When Herm reached his suite, he found Katherine on a couch in the sitting room, with a tablet of paper on her lap, sketching.

By the summer of 1994, Yousef had begun sketching in the rough draft of three plots that would culminate in his return to the United States.

Steadman was already sketching distractedly, swilling beers at a feverish rate and muttering darkly to himself about the terrible conditions in the hotel and how earlier that morning while passing thru the coffee shop, a huge ceiling lamp had fallen from the ceiling and nearly killed him.

Miss Euthymia was not behind the rest in her attainments in classical or mathematical knowledge, and she was one of the very best students in the out-door branches,--botany, mineralogy, sketching from nature,-- to be found among the scholars of the Institute.

He tried sketching the green once, till bad weather forced him into the pub. At closing time he went in the cinema and slept until an usherette woke him.

I left Steadman sketching in the Paddock bar and went off to place our bets on the fourth race.

I recall, about 1940, reading Diego Abad de Santillan's interesting book After the Revolution, criticizing his anarchist comrades and sketching in some detail how an anarchosyndicalist Spain would work (these are >50 year old memories, so don't take it too literally).