If you’re “in the know”, you’ll understand when I say these are not amazing drawings … these are amazing “delineations.”
![KRob 2013 Jury Panel](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/KRob-2013-Jury-Panel.jpg?resize=600%2C440)
Last Thursday, I was asked to moderate a panel of extremely talented illustrators – delineators – graphic artists …. whatever name they like to go by, as they announced the winners of the 39th annual AIA Dallas Chapter Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition or “KRob” as it is commonly referenced. This year’s competition saw a record number of entries (408) and in all, over 29 countries were represented – including Japan, France, Australia, UK, South Korea, Russia, Brazil and many more (21 more to be specific.)
The panel I was fortunate to moderate was streamed live across the web and was recorded … I will modify this sentence once the audio has been cleaned up and post a link so that anyone who is interested can listen to my smokey and dulcet tones.
For now, let’s just get to it – here are the winners, the juror’s selections and a handful of the finalists from this years event. I recommend that you head over to the official Ken Roberts Competition web site and take a look at all the recognized entries (finalists and winners) from this year and the last 8 years! It’s a huge repository of architectural eye-candy.
[all of these images can be selected to open up much larger in a new window]
![Chris Cornelius Best in Category Professional Digital Mixed Chris Cornelius Best in Category Professional Digital Mixed](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Chris-Cornelius-Best-in-Category-Professional-Digital-Mixed.jpg?resize=1600%2C990)
Best in Category Professional Digital Mixed
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Stephanie Bower - Best in Category Professional Travel Sketch Stephanie Bower - Best in Category Professional Travel Sketch](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Stephanie-Bower-Best-in-Category-Professional-Travel-Sketch.jpg?resize=1600%2C491)
Best in Category Professional Travel Sketch
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Castaneda Eduardo - Best in Category Student Digital Mixed Castaneda Eduardo - Best in Category Student Digital Mixed](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Castaneda-Eduardo-Best-in-Category-Student-Digital-Mixed.jpg?resize=1600%2C900)
Best in Category Student Digital Mixed
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Samara Hayes - Best in Category Student Hand Samara Hayes - Best in Category Student Hand](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Samara-Hayes-Best-in-Category-Student-Hand.jpg?resize=1600%2C1143)
Best in Category Student Hand
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Steve Quevedo - Best in Category Physical Submission Steve Quevedo - Best in Category Physical Submission](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Steve-Quevedo-Best-in-Category-Physical-Submission.jpg?resize=1600%2C1600)
Best in Category Physical Submission
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Dustin Wheat - Best in Category Professional Hand Dustin Wheat - Best in Category Professional Hand](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Dustin-Wheat-Best-in-Category-Professional-Hand.jpg?resize=1023%2C1600)
Best in Category Professional Hand
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Changyeob Lee Juror Citation selection by Stephan Martiniere Changyeob Lee Juror Citation selection by Stephan Martiniere](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/changyeob-lee-Juror-Citation-by-Stephan-Martiniere.jpg?resize=1131%2C1600)
Juror Citation selection by Stephan Martiniere
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Adam Longenbach Juror Citation selection by Perry Kulper Adam Longenbach Juror Citation selection by Perry Kulper](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Adam-Longenbach-Juror-Citation-by-Perry-Kulper.jpg?resize=1067%2C1600)
Juror Citation selection by Perry Kulper
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Gary Schuberth Juror Citation selection by Alex Hogrefe Gary Schuberth Juror Citation selection by Alex Hogrefe](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Gary-Schuberth-Juror-Citation-by-Alex-Hogrefe.jpg?resize=1600%2C1280)
Juror Citation selection by Alex Hogrefe
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Derek Binsted - Finalist Derek Binsted - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Derek-Binsted-Finalist.jpg?resize=1600%2C800)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Jay Cantrell - Finalist Jay Cantrell - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Jay-Cantrell-Finalist.jpg?resize=1140%2C1600)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Kyle Murphy - Finalist Kyle Murphy - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Kyle-Murphy-Finalist.jpg?resize=1236%2C1600)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Ozayr Saloojee - Finalist Ozayr Saloojee - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Ozayr-Saloojee-Finalist.jpg?resize=1279%2C1600)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Vince (Wai Ian) Tam - Finalist Vince (Wai Ian) Tam - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Vince-Wai-Ian-Tam-Finalist.jpg?resize=1600%2C1168)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Scott Tulay - Finalist Scott Tulay - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Scott-Tulay-Finalist.jpg?resize=1058%2C1600)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Tofan Rafati - Finalist Tofan Rafati - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Tofan-Rafati-Finalist.jpg?resize=1600%2C1126)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Sen Liu - Finalist Sen Liu - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Sen-Liu-Finalist.jpg?resize=1600%2C800)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Patrick Ruggiero, Jr. - Finalist Patrick Ruggiero, Jr. - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Patrick-Ruggiero-Jr.-Finalist.jpg?resize=1188%2C1600)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Mohd Bilbeisi - Finalist Mohd Bilbeisi - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Mohd-Bilbeisi-Finalist.jpg?resize=1155%2C1600)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Matthew Bohne- Finalist Matthew Bohne- Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Matthew-Bohne-Finalist1.jpg?resize=1600%2C614)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Matthew Bohne - Finalist Matthew Bohne - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Matthew-Bohne-Finalist.jpg?resize=1224%2C1600)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Marcus Rothnie - Finalist Marcus Rothnie - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Marcus-Rothnie-Finalist.jpg?resize=1308%2C1600)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Manole Razvan Voroneanu - Finalist Manole Razvan Voroneanu - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Manole-Razvan-Voroneanu-Finalist.jpg?resize=1600%2C547)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Jay Cantrell - Finalist Jay Cantrell - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Jay-Cantrell-Finalist1.jpg?resize=1118%2C1600)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![J.P. Maruszczak - Finalist J.P. Maruszczak - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/J.P.-Maruszczak-Finalist.jpg?resize=1600%2C1131)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Christina Shivers - Finalist Christina Shivers - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Christina-Shivers-Finalist.jpg?resize=1600%2C1173)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Chris Bennett - Finalist Chris Bennett - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Chris-Bennett-Finalist.jpg?resize=1600%2C1067)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Benjamin Shields - Finalist Benjamin Shields - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Benjamin-Shields-Finalist.jpg?resize=1600%2C1550)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Alexei Dukov - Finalist Alexei Dukov - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Alexei-Dukov-Finalist.jpg?resize=1600%2C900)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
![Alexander Blum - Finalist Alexander Blum - Finalist](https://i0.wp.com/www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Alexander-Blum-Finalist.jpg?resize=1600%2C800)
Finalist
2013 KRob Architectural Delineation Competition
I could look at drawings like these all day long – and I bet you could as well. I am amazed and humbled by the skill presented in these images. I shared with this year’s KRob committee members and the jurors a story that the first year I chaired this event in the mid-90’s was the first year that we allowed digital entries to be submitted. This caused quite an uproar which included some of the longtime sponsors questioning their participation. I look at the artistry in each of these images and marvel at the views that are selected, the colors that are used, the framing of the image on the page …
I hope you can appreciate the time, effort, skill, and dedication to their craft that each of these illustrators has demonstrated. Makes me want to get out my sketch book and try and start working on my own delineation skills.
Cheers