Sentence examples for rapid sketch from inspiring English sources

Finally, the model, like the design, should have a summarized character, such as one would give to a rapid sketch.

He would make rapid sketches, which Root afterward elaborated with the greatest care.

He made many rapid sketches of their compositions, occasionally adding notes about colour and spontaneous words of praise.

Sometimes he froze his subjects in rapid sketches: a frightened old man clutching his umbrella; a scowling loner prowling the street, hands in pockets.

"Studies for Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Frontal View, Male Nude Unsheathing a Sword and the Movements of Water" is a double-sided sheet of rapid sketches.

Much of his career was based on his skilled and rapid sketching and he eventually acquired some renown as a serious artist.

The Fierlingers also match Ackerley's wit in the way they switch between fully realised graphic work for the realistic sections and rapid sketches for his flights of fancy.

He applied his insights and rapid sketching facility to everything drawable, from the body language of women to the serene majesty of the Swiss Alps, where he made his home after a nervous breakdown during World War I.

He was undisciplined and headstrong, preferring to run off to the countryside or coast to make rapid sketches rather than hang around the studio and learn the rudiments of life drawing.

Much of his career was based on his skilled and rapid sketching and he eventually acquired some renown as a serious artist, painting a portrait of the Queen in 2006.

"This study sheet, with its series of rapid sketches," Mr. Rubinstein said, "contains so much of the essence of Leonardo's art: the seamless transition between art and science; sketches of waterworks combined with a heroic figure study; the free use of whatever drawing medium was most appropriate to the task in hand; and the surprises that the artist constantly springs on us".