In the textbook, based on his own experience and analysis of sketches and sketches of outstanding artists of the past and present, the author reveals the role of quick drawings (sketches and sketches) in the aesthetic knowledge of reality, substantiates the most characteristic and typical methods of their implementation, reveals the psychological mechanisms of quick drawing. Particular attention in the book is paid to the methodology for sketching and sketching various objects and phenomena of reality: household items, vegetables, fruits, landscape, animals, human figures, etc.