Most of the projects I've been working on lately have been too complex to go without studying from various views and angles. I typically color as I'm drawing as a way of delineating hardscape from turf, planting, etc.
Final plans are almost always colored in photoshop and hard-lined in CAD. We're also using LandFX in CAD to do planting plans which has shadows built in which you can turn on and off. If it's a small project we may just complete the planting in LandFX and some cad sections to help the contractor bid the project.
Mike Lins graphics are pretty dated, but I suppose that's just personal preference for our purposes. On larger projects, that old school graphic may kill the project.
Otherwise, alot of development drawings are done to convince our own engineers that what we're doing is for a reason.
I'll see if I can attach some graphic examples (not much on this laptop).
I understand alot of this work is larger scale public, but maybe it could be useful in inspiring new techniques and processes.
All of these are digital. They're mostly samples of some of my academic projects from previous years. Professional projects use the same techniques.
