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Brian Lin Draws Illustration Workshop Participants from Far and Wide

By Seth Truscott

Renowned architectural illustrator Brian Lin held a two-day drawing workshop in WSU’s Ensminger Pavilion that drew participants from as far away as Portland.

Tools of the trade: markers, pens, paper and a keen eye for perspective.
Tools of the trade: markers, pens, paper and a keen eye for perspective.

Landscape Architecture Club president Alex Mann said the club sponsored the workshop as a service to the university and surrounding communities. Mann added that the workshop was designed for students and practitioners in architecture, landscape architecture and interior design, but that anyone with an interest in presentation graphics and plan drawing was welcome to attend.

articipants at the Brian Lin workshop.
Participants at the Brian Lin workshop.

About 125 students of architectural illustration took part in the workshop. Participants ranged from professional landscape architects and other designers to WSU, UW and UI students.

A participant at the Brian Lin workshop practices her technique.
A participant at the Brian Lin workshop practices her technique.

Practice makes perfect

Practice makes perfect: a student illustrator takes the chisel-tip pen challenge.
A student illustrator takes the chisel-tip pen challenge.

Attention to detail is a hallmark of the Lin style; here, an illustrator practices his shading.
Attention to detail is a hallmark of the Lin style; here, an illustrator practices his shading.