When creating renders and sketches, I always notice the stylised images and drawings of people. They are essential for ensuring the viewer can perceive the scale of the space.

Here, I have attempted a few different techniques. I do appreciate the need for simplistic single-line images; however, for me, they do not include any characters or personalities that the viewers can relate to.

Too often, minorities are not included in design paraphernalia, and we as budding Landscape architects must ensure we have these in our designs to provide a culturally and socially sustainable design.

These 3 are interesting, they seem to have hints of “The Snowman” and “The Handmaids Tail” about them, totally unintentional.

A lot of my figure drawings come better when I am looking at a figure to copy; I need to have the ability here to draw proportionately from memory. This will come with practice, no doubt. The style below I love, there’s movement, there is character, and it was swift and easy to draw. However, this still may be lost in a big render. I will have to applique this into an image to test this hypothesis.

You can see below the image infilled works really well, there is perspective, character, movement and scale, using the sepier paper tone too ensures the image without detracting from the background landscape. The ghostly outline in the foreground has not worked, despite my photoshop efforts.