Sketch drawing

You can usually tell a sketch drawing by its less-refined lines and edges and unpolished look. Artists often create sketches with simple, quick marks and may ignore adding certain details that aren't important to the piece. They are typically used to show a working concept or capture something important in a short amount of time. Specific types of sketches include:

Automotive

Automotive sketches are used to show designs for sedans, trucks, motorcycles and other motorized vehicles. They're often used to represent the overall complex shapes of the subject and include certain areas with more details to show design features or upgrades, like custom wheels. Automotive sketches can show both interiors and exteriors and usually feature color to illustrate paint schemes or design ideas.

Courtroom

Media outlets use courtroom sketches in the absence of photographs or film to illustrate stories for trials and legal proceedings. Courtroom sketch artists

may focus most closely on people's faces, hair or arms to show the important subjects or actions of a court proceeding. Though it's a sketch, some aspects may include a lot of detail.

Fashion

Fashion illustrations typically feature long, elongated figures meant to mimic the look of runway models. However, these figures rarely include facial features or fingers because the focus is on the designs. Fashion illustrations may have either a rough or polished look, depending on the artist. They use lines, contours and colors to create initial ideas for future wearable designs.

Interior

Interior sketches show how design ideas fit together and how they'll look in a 3D setting. Interior designers use perspective and technical drawing together to create accurately proportioned items, shading and shadows. Interior sketches may appear in black and white or in color to show how tones, fabrics or schemes work together within the room.