The word croquis comes from French and means simply "sketch".

She went on to teach adults in painting, croquis or batik.

For emerging architects, being published by El Croquis is a target in itself.

Often a large number of croquis drawings will be created for one finished look, which is fully drawn and finished.

As opposed to a croquis, which is line art, a pochade captures the colors and atmosphere of a scene.

He even has the requisite ego, showing his own sketches, or croquis, on a series of screen-printed dresses and coats.

Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose and another croquis is drawn.

Croquis pour un carnaval op.

Croquis De Tranchées.

Croquis de frontières, profils de passeurs.

El Croquis (Architectural Magazine)

El Croquis (Spanish; translates to English as "The Sketch") is one of the most prestigious architectural magazines in the world.

Video-interviews and Tele-conversations in the time of the technical codes" (El Croquis N.148)

During the following two days the Americans decided to do a battlefield reconnaissance and Colonel S. Reber, developed a croquis of the Aibonito Pass.

El Croquis, Quaderns, A+U, Arch+, Harvard Design Magazine feature his work and he has contributed to numerous publications.

El Croquis Editorial is also noted for their exhibition gallery in El Escorial (Madrid), housing a large collection of architectural models in constant rotation.

As a critic he has written for many different periodicals, including Assemblage, El Croquis, Architectural Design, Harvard Design Magazine, Log, and Quaderns.

After the initial sketch, croquis drawing can be used as a foundation for another work of art such as a painting or may be used as a work of art itself.

Here he began writing Professor Mmaa's Lecture in Polish and wrote the long poem Croquis dans les Ténèbres [Sketches in Darkness].

Breitschmid's texts have been published in the most prestigious architecture journals such as the Milano-based Casabella, the Madrid-based El Croquis, and the Tokyo-based Architecture + Urbanism (a+u).

Alejandro Zaera-Polo had an unusually early involvement as a theorist, writing for El Croquis from as early as 1987, where he identified and theorised the work of the current generation of established architects.

A recent review of the CD recording of Croquis noted: "Dale Roberts's miniatures are brilliantly able to condense a familiar image, such as the reel or the fugue, and accumulate into a substantial, 54-minute statement."

His work has been exhibited in internationally renowned venues like the Venice Biennale, the Institut Français d'Architecture, presented in referential publications like El Croquis, and quoted by many bloggers in the sphere.

In academic painting the oil sketch took the form of the croquis, a small and gestural compositional study, and the ébauche, a dynamic laying-in of paint on the full-scale canvas, a temporary stage of the painting eventually leading to greater elaboration.

Due to the interest in this series, Serpieri has also published numerous sketchbooks, such as Obsession, Druuna X, Druuna X 2, Croquis, Serpieri Sketchbook, Serpieri Sketchbook 2 and The Sweet Smell of Woman.