: What is the type of these coarse drawings? Disclaimer: This question might not be suitable for this site, I am not sure beforehand. Having seen this sketch on today's Google Doodle, I remembered

@Harper654

Oh, the good old days! :-D These, I would say, stems from Letraset clip art:


(seriously; am I the only one old enough to have worked with this? :-S )

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@LarsenBagley460

The sketches you've shown above are examples of 'Pen and Ink' drawing. Check out www.flickr.com/groups/pen_and_ink_drawings/pool/ for examples.

As e100 said, though, the illustrations used for the Google logo were more based on fashion design sketches.

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@Michele215

I agree with @horatio 's label of Google's art as a cartoon. I think you might be confusing a sprite sheet (going by the name of the file being shown in the URL) as commercial illustration (per your updated example).

A sprite sheet is the digital equivalent of a stack of animation cells. The sprite sheet is imported by the application, in this case the animation on Google, and each of the images is a frame shown by the application in turn. Video games use sprite sheets a lot for handling animation quickly and easily.

Commercial illustration, which I think is what your image is an example of, is an "old school" term for a type of illustration used in graphic design (or at least I don't hear it anymore these days), typically in the style you have in your question. The best example I know of is the venerable Pee-Chee folder:

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@Gail6891361

I would say that in both the traditional and modern sense(s) of the word, they are "cartoons"

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@Sims5801359

I am assuming that given they're to celebrate the birthday of "Martha Graham, the US choreographer who helped to pioneer modern dance" that they are influenced by the practice of choreographers.

They might be actually be directly used as dance notation - I don't knwo anything about the subject.

They are somewhat like less stylized fashion design sketches, which I guess have a similar need to capture the key points of body posture.

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