A hasty or undetailed drawing or painting often made as a preliminary study. Traits include rough lines, [[monochrome]] or basic coloring, and left over structural shapes.

Not all pictures with these traits are considered sketches, such as post #2721361 and post #2722170. Posts with proper use of the sketch tag are post #2720851 and post #2722791.

Abbreviated on Pixiv as "rkgk", which comes from the Japanese word for sketch (落書き, [i]rakugaki[/i]). Not all pictured tagged as "sketch" by the artist should be tagged as [[sketch]] on Danbooru. The picture must look like a sketch for it to apply. [b]Translated tags have been removed from this wiki, because artists tend to use this tag in a very misleading way.[/b]

Sketches are not sufficient reasons for flagging. See [[howto:flag]].

h4. See also
* [[doodles]]
* [[oekaki]]
* [[squiggle]]
* [[unfinished]]