How I Create a Landscape Design, 2D Plan, and 3D Rendering Before Leaving the Client's Driveway

To close premium landscape deals on the spot, I use a fast, mobile-and-AI workflow that visualizes the final project before leaving the client's yard. Here's my method, and links to the programs I click on.

Map

I walk the property with Cam to Plan to instantly generate an accurate 2D layout using augmented reality.

Sketch

Robyn's Original drawing, using Procreate over a plot map from Cam to Plan

I drop that map into Procreate on my iPad with my Apple Pencil and start listening and observing. As the client shares their vision and seatbacks, I sketch design layers and notes directly over the map layout to build instant trust. 

This part is where you really design. You're listening to the client and creating solutions based on your breadth of knowlege and your uncanny talent to see the past, present, and future by looking at a plot of dirt. That part is 100% you.

It’s about this point that I go sit in the client's driveway for 10 minutes and hash out my design, and when I’m getting close, I turn to AI.

Polish

Glow up of Robyn's drawing using PlotTwist: Growing Shade

I run that rough sketch through my own app that I spent months developing (not a developer) called PlotTwist: GrowingShade, created with Opal.

It instantly transforms hand-drawn sketch into a clean 2D landscape plan with legible text, improved symbols, and architectural shading.

It’s my design, but presentation ready. I use these glow ups in website and social media posts.

Close

3D rendering, created in 60 seconds with PlotTwist 3D.

PlotTwist 3D, another of my Opal apps overlays that finished 2D plan directly onto the original photos of the client's yard.

Seeing a realistic 3D concept of their future space layered onto their actual home creates an immediate emotional connection that closes the deal. You do want to emphasize that it is conceptual, because this app isn't as accurate at the previous.

Now you know all my secrets! Comment below on the programs and apps that you use!

-La Madrina