Dog American Staffordshire Terrier Sketch

The American Staffordshire Terrier is a breed of dog from the United States recognized by the FCI. The progenitor of the "Am Staffs", as they are colloquially called, is the "Bull and Terrier", which was used for dog fighting in Great Britain and came to the United States with British immigrants around 1860. In England, animal fighting had been banned outright since 1835, thus leaving the area of legal prohibition of dog fighting. Especially in the northeastern United States, dogfighting was practiced commercially from about 1880.

A sketch is a quickly executed freehand drawing that is not usually intended to be a finished work. A sketch can serve several purposes: It can capture something the artist sees, it can capture or develop an idea for later use, or it can serve as a quick way to graphically represent an image, idea, or principle.

Sketches can be made in any drawing medium. The term is most commonly used for graphic work done in a dry medium such as silverpoint, graphite, pencil, charcoal, or pastel. It can also refer to drawings executed with pen and ink, digital input media such as a digital pen, ballpoint pen, marker, watercolor, and oil paint. The latter two are commonly referred to as "watercolor sketches" and "oil sketches." A sculptor may model three-dimensional sketches in clay, plasticine, or wax.