Pencil Sketch

Turns a 3D render or viewport into an architectural pencil sketch: graphite on soft white or warm cream paper, with the building, massing, openings and camera of your view kept in place. Photoreal materials, color, CG shading and detailed sky and vegetation are removed, and the view is redrawn as if by hand. Lines vary in weight, heavier on the main contours and lighter on secondary detail and context, with a slight hand-drawn imperfection. Shading is built with parallel hatching at 30 to 45 degrees, denser in the shadows, with cross-hatching only in the deepest ones; highlights are left as bare paper. Trees become quick cloud-like scribbles, the ground a few horizontal strokes, and the sky stays paper white. Paper grain and a faint edge fade finish the sheet. Add an optional second image of a sketch you like, and the template adapts its line weight and hatching density to it, without copying its subject. Going from render to sketch with AI is the reverse of what most tools do, and it is often what an early project needs: a pencil sketch tells the client the design is still moving, keeps the conversation on volume and light, and brings a hand-drawn tone to a board or a report.

An architect has a well-developed model of a house extension but meets the neighbours for the first time next week. A photoreal render would look final and invite objections to details that are not decided yet. The architect runs two views through Pencil Sketch, with a scan of one of their own hand sketches as the style reference, and brings two sheets that look drawn at the desk. The neighbours discuss the height and the garden view, which is what the meeting was for.