Croquis vs. Sketch — What's the Difference?

Croquis drawing is quick and sketchy drawing of a live model. Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose or leaves and another croquis is drawn.

A rough or unfinished drawing or painting, often made to assist in making a more finished picture

(arts) A quick and sketchy drawing, often of a live model. Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose and another croquis is drawn.

A short humorous play or performance, consisting typically of one scene in a revue or comedy programme

A comical or amusing person or thing.

Make a rough drawing of

A hasty or undetailed drawing or painting often made as a preliminary study.

A brief general account or presentation; an outline.

A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or a short story.

(Music) A brief composition, especially for the piano.

A short, often satirical scene or play in a revue or variety show; a skit.

(Informal) An amusing person.

To make a sketch of; outline.

To make a sketch.

(ambitransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.

(transitive) To describe briefly and with very few details.

A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.

A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.

A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.

A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show.

A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.

A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.

(informal) An amusing person.

A lookout; vigilant watch for something.

(UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.

(category theory) A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).

Sketchy, shady, questionable.

An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.

To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.

To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

To make sketches, as of landscapes.

Preliminary drawing for later elaboration;

A brief literary description

Short descriptive summary (of events)

A humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

Make a sketch of;

Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of;