Documentation / Image Studio
Sketch & Hand Media
Your model, redrawn the way architects think — in pencil, ink and wash.
A render promises a finished building; a sketch invites comment. Sketch & Hand Media draws your design in the media practices reach for early and often: pencil and charcoal, ink and marker, watercolour and gouache, the urban sketchbook and the napkin.
Styles
| Style | What it looks like | Starts from |
|---|---|---|
| Pencil | Graphite line and hatching, from a loose concept to a tight drawing with construction lines; switch on colour for coloured pencil. | A capture or image (recommended) |
| Charcoal & Pastel | Big smudged charcoal darks with lifted highlights, best on toned paper; add colour for soft pastel. | A capture or image (recommended) |
| Ink Line | Crisp fineliner line with hatching and cross-hatching, no wash: the drawing a technical pen makes. | A capture or image (recommended) |
| Marker | Layered alcohol-marker rendering in cool greys with a few warm accents and white highlights, the classic presentation sketch. | A capture or image (recommended) |
| Ink & Watercolour | Loose washes over confident pen line, colour escaping the edges and plenty of paper left white: the one clients frame. | A capture or image (recommended) |
| Gouache | Flat, matte, opaque colour shapes with crisp edges: a hand-painted architectural illustration. | A capture or image (recommended) |
| Urban Sketchbook | A quick on-the-spot pen-and-wash sketch on a sketchbook page, fading out at the edges, with people in the street. | A capture or image (recommended) |
| Napkin | The idea in a minute: a few felt-tip strokes on a napkin, fast and cheap, made for trying many directions. | A capture or image (recommended) |
Choices
| Choice | Options |
|---|---|
| Looseness | Gestural · Loose · Measured · Tight, with construction lines |
| Colour | Mono · Limited · Full |
| Paper | White cartridge · Cream sketchbook · Grey toned · Kraft · Yellow trace |
| People & trees | None · A few, for scale · Lively |
| Follow my imagewith a reference | Hold my lines · Keep the massing · Just a starting point |
Follow my image appears once a reference is attached:
- Hold my lines keeps the camera, proportions, rooflines and openings, and changes only the medium. It uses the studio's most precise editing model.
- Keep the massing keeps the heights and the camera, and interprets the linework and surroundings freely.
- Just a starting point takes the capture as a loose idea.
Paper → Yellow trace with a capture attached draws on trace over a faint print of your view: the design-review sketch.
Starting from your model
A Rhino capture at the aspect you want, Technical or Pen display, eye-level two-point perspective, grid and gumball off. A flat scan of your own sketch works too.
A photo works for Keep the massing and Just a starting point, but not for Hold my lines: its texture turns into noisy hatching.
Try these
- Pencil · Tight, with construction lines · Mono: "a four-storey brick apartment block with deep recessed loggias on a tree-lined street corner, seen from across the street"
- Ink & Watercolour · Keep the massing · Cream sketchbook · Lively with a capture: "a timber-and-glass community pavilion at the edge of a park lawn, late summer afternoon, families on the grass"
- Ink Line · Hold my lines · Yellow trace · None with a capture: "a mixed-use block with a two-storey retail podium and a set-back residential tower, seen from street level"
- Napkin · Gestural: "a footbridge that lands on the riverbank as a stepped seating plaza"
Keep in mind
- AI-generated in a hand-drawn style: it is not your hand, and nothing should present it as your sketch.
- Not a drawing of record: no scale, dimensions or north. Hold my lines keeps how the geometry looks, not its measurements.
- Light is artistic: hatching and washes put shade where it looks good, not where the sun would.
- Figures, trees and cars are decoration for scale and life, not occupancy, planting or parking.