Architectural Pencil Sketch

Architecture · Architecture · Drawing

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One point perspective, interior·Nano Banana Pro
Street elevation study·Nano Banana Pro
Detail section with notes·Nano Banana Pro
Site sketch with figures·Seedream 4.5
Trace paper overlay on a plan·Seedream 4.5

Recipe

The examples above were generated with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 4.5. The recipes below are written for GPT Image and Flux, so treat the settings as a starting point rather than the exact run.

A description in plain sentences. This is the version to start with, and it works on any current image model. Settings below are the ones we used on GPT Image; treat them as a starting point.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.

Prompt

An architect's working perspective sketch of a concrete and glass pavilion, drawn in graphite on trace paper. One point perspective with the vanishing point construction lines still visible, loose diagonal hatching for shadow, a single scale figure standing in the entrance, a few handwritten dimension notes in the margin. Slightly wrinkled paper, smudged graphite, the drawing stopping short of the paper edges.

The prompt gets you close. Feed one of the examples in as a style reference for the rest. Download the images

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Settings on GPT Image

Size
1536 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Leaving construction lines in is what makes it read as a working drawing.
  • 2One scale figure. More than two and it becomes an illustration.
  • 3Smudged graphite and a wrinkled sheet do more than any paper filter.

Things to try

Ink and marker

fine liner with grey marker shadow blocks

Section drawing

a cut section with poche filled solid black

Sketchbook page

two small studies and handwritten notes on one page

Blue trace overlay

a trace overlay in blue pencil above a printed plan

Watercolour wash

a light wash added over the pencil for sky and planting

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