{"id":1170,"date":"2025-05-07T14:52:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T04:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2025-05-07T14:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T04:52:03","slug":"lin-spirational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/2025\/05\/07\/lin-spirational\/","title":{"rendered":"Lin-Spirational\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Story by Seth Bogardus<br>Photo by\u00a0Ryan Low<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew Lin has been drawing since he was six. It has been a large tradition in his family. Most of his family has had something to do with art in their lives but his largest inspiration was his aunt. She had a similar job to illustration and it showed Lin that he could make it as an illustrator if he really wanted it.&nbsp;<br>And that\u2019s exactly what he did. He worked a second job at Scholastic for a while doing comics and that soon branched into his independent, commissioned work that he still does &#8211; from high-profile clients to the Campbelltown library.&nbsp;<br>In the session, Lin created a unique character with the class while teaching them different elements of character design. This began with a simple choice: human or creature and quickly evolved to class debates about the way he should hold a tree trunk.&nbsp;<br>Some more serious notes about character design included the importance of environment, colour and shape defining a character. He talked about how colour frequently ties into environment &#8211; something green will be pictured from a forest or a swamp while something blue is pictured from water.&nbsp;<br>The environment a character is from can also define its personality further than just the drawing. He also talked about shapes and body positions: like rigid lines defining a more aggressive character and drawing some lines on an angle to give depth and direction to a 2D figure, as well as bending a body to create movement in a stationary pose.&nbsp;<br>As Lin worked on the sketch, the class followed along with each person giving their own creative variation into their piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If there is anything to learn from Lin, it is that you can always achieve your dreams if you put the work in.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Seth BogardusPhoto by\u00a0Ryan Low Matthew Lin has been drawing since he was six. It has been a large tradition in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,76,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-stories","category-litfest","category-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}