A pretreatment liquid for an impermeable medium is a pretreatment liquid including water, a resin, and an organic acid, in which a ratio of a content of the resin to a content of the organic acid is greater than 0 and less than 4 on a mass basis, and the organic acid is a compound represented by Formula 1. In Formula 1, l represents 1 or greater, m represents 0 or 1, n represents 1 or greater, and l+m+n is 2 or greater. R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a carboxy group, an amino group, or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.