Cancer Cross-Section Sketch

Quick sketch for Jim Perkin's mixed media class. Our assignment is to combine Illustrator paths into our sketches to keep them orderly and tight. Planning to paint over these shapes now that the basic values/colors have been blocked out in the week to come.

Cell Landscape

Illustration for a digital mixed media class with Professor Jim Perkins.

Tried out a few different things here: minimalist black-and-white painting with a lot of texture and strong lights. The blue glow/white threads are supposed to be electrical impulses travelling through cell bodies in the layer of the retina.

Digital Lineart

Quick Illustrator exercise from a Digital Media class. We were instructed to create lineart that depicted a simple exercise.

Exercise Graphics (Colored Pencil)

Two-step exercise graphic demonstrating a tricep press. Rendered in colored pencil with hatching.

These drawings are actually relatively old, from Anatomical Figure Draw offered in the fall quarter of this year. I only thought to photograph them now.

Gradient Mesh Assignment

Humpback whale informational poster, rendered in Adobe Illustrator.

Edits to Tilted Throat

You may have noticed that the bone structure on the "tipped throat" image a few posts down looked a bit shoddy... I ended up doing some project revisions to make the transition from straight anterior view to tipped-back more believable.

The edits to the straight anterior view are probably not very obvious - just some differentiation in values, trying to make the trapezius muscle seem a little closer to the viewer and the other muscles more vibrant and life-like. (Also the thyroid cartilage and trachea were tinted blue to correspond with the discs in the vertebral column).














Hopefully the transition here is a little more distinctive though; there was definitely something wrong with the first skull. It might just be that it's not dramatic enough of an angle, but I think lightening up the color palette helped a lot too.

Three-quarter view of the contents of the male true pelvis, including urinary and ejaculatory systems. Tried out some different techniques this time; I like incorporating lineart but maybe there's a more informational way to do so that doesn't detract from the overall form.