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title: "Create Sketch"
description: "Local-first visual environment for building and running AI workflows. Build agents visually, deploy anywhere, privacy by design."
canonical: https://docs.nodetool.ai/nodes/nodetool/sketch/createsketch
markdown: https://docs.nodetool.ai/nodes/nodetool/sketch/createsketch.md
product: NodeTool
source: https://github.com/nodetool-ai/nodetool/blob/main/docs/nodes/nodetool/sketch/createsketch.md
---

# Create Sketch

**Type:** `nodetool.sketch.CreateSketch`

**Namespace:** `nodetool.sketch`

## Description

Create a new sketch document from an image, ready to edit in the sketch editor.
    sketch, create, image, editor, handoff

    Use cases:
    - Hand a generated image to the sketch editor for manual touch-up
    - Start a paint-over from a photo or render
    - Round-trip: generate, refine by hand, feed back into the workflow

## Properties

| Property | Type | Description | Default |
|----------|------|-------------|---------|
| image | `image` | The image to place on the sketch's base layer. | `{"type":"image","uri":"","asset_id":null,"data"...` |
| name | `str` | Name of the new sketch document. | `Untitled sketch` |

## Outputs

| Output | Type | Description |
|--------|------|-------------|
| output | `sketch` |  |

## Related Nodes

Browse other nodes in the [nodetool.sketch](./) namespace.