Sketch or Sketches may refer to: *

Sketch (drawing) A sketch (ultimately from Greek language, Greek σχέδιος – ''schedios'', "done extempore") is a rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not usually intended as a fi ...

, a rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not usually intended as a finished work

Arts, entertainment and media

Sketch comedy Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches" or, "skits", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. While the form developed and became popular in ...

, a series of short scenes or vignettes called sketches

Film and television

* ''Sketch'' (2007 film), a Malayalam film * ''Sketch'' (2018 film), a Tamil film * ''Sketch'' (2024 film), an American comedy horror film * ''Sketch'' (TV series), a 2018 South Korean series * "Sketch", a 2008 episode of ''Skins'' ** Sketch (''Skins'' character) * Sketch with Kevin McDonald, a 2006 CBC television special

Literature

Sketch story A sketch story, literary sketch or simply sketch, is a piece of writing that is generally shorter than a short story, and contains very little, if any, plot. The genre was invented after the 16th century in England, as a result of increasing publ ...

, or sketch, a very short piece of writing * ''

Daily Sketch The ''Daily Sketch'' was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet. The ''Sketch'' was Conservative in its politics and populist in its tone during its existence through all its ch ...

'', a British newspaper 1909–1971 * ''

The Sketch ''The Sketch'' was a British illustrated weekly journal. It ran for 2,989 issues between 1 February 1893 and 17 June 1959. It was published by the Illustrated London News, Illustrated London News Company and was primarily a society magazine wit ...

'', a British illustrated weekly journal 1893–1959

Music

* Sketch (music), an informal document prepared by a composer to assist in composition * The Sketches, a Pakistani Sufi folk rock band * ''Sketch'' (Ex Norwegian album), 2011 * ''Sketch'' (Lilas Ikuta album), 2023 * ''Sketch'' (EP), by Hyomin, 2016 * ''Sketches'' (album), by Bert Jansch, 1990 * ''Sketches'', a 2008 album by

Ane Brun Ane Brun (; born Ane Brunvoll on 10 March 1976) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist of Sami people, Sami origin who sings primarily in English. Since 2003, she has released eleven studio albums, six live albums, five compilations, o ...

* ''Sketches'', a 2012 EP by

Newton Faulkner Sam Newton Battenberg Faulkner (born 11 January 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and musician from Reigate, Surrey. He is known for his percussive style of guitar playing. In 2007 Faulkner's debut studio album ''Hand Built by Robots'' was ce ...

* ''Sketches'', a 1994 album by

Vince Mendoza Vince Mendoza (born November 17, 1961) is an American composer, music arranger and conductor. He debuted as a solo artist in 1989, and is known for his work conducting the Metropole Orkest and WDR Big Band Köln, as well as arranging music f ...

* ''Sketches'', a 1972 album by

Chris Connor Mary Jean Loutsenhizer, known professionally as Chris Connor (November 8, 1927 – August 29, 2009), was an American jazz singer. Biography Chris Connor was born Mary Loutsenhizer in Kansas City, Missouri, to Clyde Loutsenhizer and Mabel Sh ...

* ''Sketches'', a 2014 album by

Inga and Anush Arshakyan Inga and Anush Ashoti Arshakyan () or the Arshakyan Sisters () are an Armenian folk singing duo. The sisters represented Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, eventually finishing in 10th place in the final. Early life Anush was born on ...

* ''Sketches'', a 2023 EP by

Fergus McCreadie Fergus McCreadie (born 12 July 1997) is a Scottish jazz pianist and composer. His style revolves around a fusion of contemporary jazz with Scottish folk music. He has released four albums as leader of a jazz trio, piano trio and two EPs to date. ...

Computing

Sketch (software) Sketch is a vector graphics editor for macOS developed by the Dutch company Sketch B.V. (formerly named Bohemian Coding). It was first released on 7 September 2010 and won an Apple Design Award in 2012. It also has a web application that allo ...

, a vector graphics editor *

Skencil Skencil, formerly called Sketch, is a free software vector graphics editor, released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. History Its first public version, ''Sketch 0.5.0'', was released on October 31, 1998 by Bernhard Herzog. Later ...

, formerly Sketch, a vector graphics editor * Sketch, an approximation of some statistics of

probability distribution In probability theory and statistics, a probability distribution is a Function (mathematics), function that gives the probabilities of occurrence of possible events for an Experiment (probability theory), experiment. It is a mathematical descri ...

by a

streaming algorithm In computer science, streaming algorithms are algorithms for processing data streams in which the input is presented as a sequence of items and can be examined in only a few passes, typically one-pass algorithm, just one. These algorithms are desi ...

* Sketch, a program written with the

Arduino Arduino () is an Italian open-source hardware and open-source software, software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. Its hardwar ...

IDE * Sketch, a program written with the Processing IDE

Mathematics

Curve sketching In geometry, curve sketching (or curve tracing) are techniques for producing a rough idea of overall shape of a plane curve given its equation, without computing the large numbers of points required for a detailed plot. It is an application of t ...

, techniques for producing a rough idea of overall shape of a plane curve *

Sketch (mathematics) In the mathematical theory of categories, a sketch is a category ''D'', together with a set of cones intended to be limits and a set of cocones intended to be colimits. A model of the sketch in a category ''C'' is a functor :M:D\rightarrow C tha ...

, in the mathematical theory of categories

People

* Katie Sketch, vocalist of band The Organ * Jason Scott Sadofsky (born 1970), pseudonym Sketch, American archivist, filmmaker and performer * Sketch (streamer) (born 1998 or 1999), American Twitch streamer and YouTuber

Other uses

* Sketch (restaurant), a restaurant in London, England