Sentence examples for sketch after from inspiring English sources
The phrase "sketch after" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to mean to draw a sketch that is similar to another image. For example: "She began to sketch after the photograph she had been given."
I did the first sketch after Amadou Diallo [shot by four plainclothes police in New York].
A sketch after Michelangelo's "David," made shortly before Raphael left Florence for Rome, transforms the hero into an ancient caryatid.
His brief to the "SNL" team was to "construct a story" around such a character, not merely a movie that felt like "sketch after sketch".
There are images of other art, like the red chalk close-up of Laocoön and a feather-light pen-and-ink sketch after Raphael's "School of Athens".
A partnership between local musician Carrie Brownstein and Saturday Night Live comic Fred Armisen, Portlandia lampoons life in the city with barbed affection in sketch after sketch.
"But Monty Python made that sketch after 20 years of tawdry revivals," says Bankes-Jones, whose Tête à Tête company is now staging the show at London's Riverside Studios.
But they are also beautiful, with the artist lavishing attention and care on the panoramic landscapes worked up in his London studio from sketches after his return.
In 1926, with financial help from Rilke, Balthus spent a year traveling in Italy, where he made copies and sketches after Piero della Francesca, Masaccio, Masolino and others.
Alban Berg's Lulu is the most complex and dazzling of 20th century operas and has left a long shadow (written in the 1930s, it was completed from Berg's sketches after his death).
At the Prado, a compact retrospective of about forty borrowed Picassos, in chronological array — from precocious sketches, after Velázquez, that he made at the museum in 1897-98, while still a teen-ager, to a bravura canvas, "Musketeer and Love," from 1969, four years before his death — are interspersed with germane works from the museum's incredible permanent collection.
Our recoding also resulted in some minor adjustments to the design levels that we identified in the students' sketches after repeatedly checking these against levels.
