Pelvic Vessels and Select Muscles

Full 3/4 and bisected 3/4 views, respectively.

(Yes, the spongy bone is bread... shh...)

Bronchial Carcinoma (completed)

Finally finished!

(Although it probably needs a couple more hours...)

A quick aside (Intro to Web Design)

This is a little unrelated to the general content of this blog, but I'm currently taking an Intro to Web Design class in the School of Design as an elective. We're learning basic html and CSS, as well as (possibly) a little javascript.

There are some screenshots included in the post but it would be really nice if you could check it out as intended, as a website. Please try it out and see what you think, if you can find any bugs that I might have missed.

All images used are copyrighted to their respective owners, but the layout and button designs are my own. Font used is Requiem.

Thanks so much!

Bronchial Carcinoma

For Anatomical Illustration: Mixed Media with Professor Jim Perkins.

Medical Legal Exhibits

For Medical Legal Illustration with Professor Jim Perkins.

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.

Throat Illustration Process

Our assignment was to create two full-color illustrations of the throat: one at an anterior view and one with the a posterior-tilted skull.

Textbook Illustrations

We were assigned two topics, which we designed and illustrated for hypothetical publication in a textbook. The first diagram is a comparison/contrast of gap junctions, tight junctions and desmosomes; the second diagram depicts the translation of mRNA at a ribosome.

Anterior self portrait