Concept in Definition ABC

The use of this word appears in two different situations, in the He drew and in relation to exposition of some ideas. In both contexts, the noun outline expresses a common basic element: the expression initial of something that will later be developed.

In the elaboration of a map, a plan or the design of a building, the sketch idea is known as a sketch. In the brief exposition of a plan, sketch is equivalent to a note. It should be noted, on the other hand, that there is a profession related to this term, the sketch artist. These professionals are specialists in the basic design of some type of artistic work.

In the world of creation

To paint a picture, sculpt a statue or design a car, you have to start with an initial idea that is embodied in the form of scheme or sketch on paper. In other words, an outline is drawn with the fundamental lines. The outline is an initial draft and is therefore totally provisional and not definitive.

Any creative activity starts from this basic scheme, which is usually in the form of simple lines on which it is already possible to develop a more elaborate creation with all kinds of details.

In the history of art, some sketches of great works have been preserved for their high value, both economic and artistic. From them it is possible to better understand the final result of a work. An illustrative example is related to "El Guernica" by Picasso, a large work of which more than forty sketches are preserved and that have been exhibited on several occasions together with the work original.

In the world of ideas

The most sophisticated projects we can imagine also have a very simple beginning. In this sense, if a novelist has a story in his head, before transferring it to paper, he will surely make a general sketch about it. that you are going to tell (for example, a division by chapters, the traits of the main characters or a brief explanation about the knot of the plot).

Something very similar is what happens in a draft business, in which in its initial stage a basic scheme is designed that expresses the whole of the activity that is going to be developed.

If a speaker announces that he is going to present an outline of a book his, the assistants will know that he is going to talk about the fundamental aspects of his work and, consequently, other secondary aspects will not be discussed.

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