Collocations for sketch - noun

lightning, quick | rough | preliminary, preparatory | charcoal, ink, pencil, watercolour

do, draw, make

book, pad | map | plan

in a/the ~
The family house appears in several of her sketches.

~ by
a series of sketches by John Constable

~ for
to make a sketch for an oil painting

~ of
He did some rough sketches of the costumes.

brief, thumbnail
The talk began with a thumbnail sketch of the political situation at that time.

biographical, character

give sb

~ of
He gave us character sketches of all his eccentric relations.

short | comic, satirical

do, perform | write

~ about
a comic sketch about a talking cat