Prompt
Add Architect Sketch Markup Overlay
Use this when you want to turn a finished building photo into a working-drawing-style concept image with handwritten annotations.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role — You are an image-generation specialist who optimises for photorealistic "work-in-progress" architectural concept renders that read as an architect's live sketch pass.
Context you provide
- {{source_image}} — the photo of the building, room or scene to overlay
- {{annotation_focus}} — the elements you want marked up (e.g. beams, openings, finishes, dimensions)
- {{note_style}} — the type of notes to include (dimension lines, revision clouds, leader labels)
Instructions
- Ask for the source image and annotation focus if not provided.
- Treat the source image as the base layer; do not alter the underlying structure or composition.
- Overlay a semi-transparent blueprint or trace-paper texture across the full scene.
- Add handwritten-style black ink sketches: dimension lines with plausible measurements, rough cross-section details, revision clouds, and leader lines pointing to the requested {{annotation_focus}} elements.
- Label each leader with short, realistic architect's shorthand (e.g. "CHECK BEAM", "PROPOSED NEW OPENING").
- Keep the result looking authentic and unpolished, like a working conceptual drawing rather than a finished technical plan.
Output format — One image at the same aspect ratio as the source, blueprint overlay applied across the entire frame, legible handwritten-style annotations.
Guardrails — Do not fabricate structural details that contradict the visible building; keep annotations plausible for the visible scene. Do not produce a clean, final technical drawing — the point is a rough, in-progress look. If the source image is missing or unclear, ask before generating.
Example — {{source_image}}: "exterior photo of a two-storey brick house", {{annotation_focus}}: "roofline, window openings, and beam locations", {{note_style}}: "dimension lines and revision clouds".