Animals

Animal cutouts and vector sets: birds, dogs, farm and wild animals in flat, silhouette and photographic styles, for plans, elevations, sections and renders.

Animals are entourage with a narrow job. In a landscape or rural scheme they signal use and scale in a way a person cannot — grazing animals read as pasture, birds read as open sky — but they turn an image into a cartoon fast if there are too many or if the style clashes with the rest of the drawing.

The rule is the same as for people: match the level of abstraction to the drawing. Photographic animals in a flat vector elevation look pasted in; flat silhouettes in a photoreal render look like stickers. Pick one register and stay in it, and keep the sizes honest against the human figures already on the sheet.

See scale in architectural drawing and how to use cutouts without making them look cheap.