Drawn Medical Art
Drawing, Illustration, Academia
2011
Bold, expressive line-work with a soft touch...not something you hear everyday to describe medical and technical artwork. Check out some examples of how technical accuracy and traditional drawing can merge to create fine art:
- Drawn Medical Art
- Bold, expressive line-work with a soft touch...not something you hear everyday to describe medical and technical artwork. Check out some examples of how technical accuracy and traditional drawing can merge to create fine art.
An artistic but accurate look at the anatomical human heart. Illustrated for a CR article about how some chemotherapy can have the unfortunate side effect of injuring the heart.
The causative agent of malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, infects red blood cells. The parasite replicates itself until it bursts the host cell, ready to infect more. This cycle is what causes the hallmark cyclical fevers of malaria. Drawn in pen and ink, and digitally colored.
Patients undergoing chemotherapy must work harder at certain tasks to complete the same mental tasks. The inset shows normal brain activity. Digitally painted for CR magazine.
Cancer recruits new blood vessel growth to feed the expanding tumor in a process called angiogenesis.
Historically, drug trials judged the efficacy of a new drug by looking at its ability to cure the given disease. Increasingly, surrogate endpoints are being used as gauges for a drug's value. Examples are shown here for cancer research, including: tumor size, metastasis and cancer cell mobility, and tumor antigens in the blood stream. Digitally painted for CR Magazine.
A soft touch to a a technical subject, this pencil artwork shows the signaling molecules that alert our intestines' cells that sweet food is on the way
A soft touch to a medical subject, this pencil drawing infographic shows the salivary glands at different magnification levels.
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Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter on a molecular and atomic scale, is being used by scientists for a variety of purposes, including preventative treatments for cancer.Digital Art, Illustration, Painting2012 -
Digital paintings showing a variety of ecosystems, the complex interactions between species, and the impact human activity can have on these systems.Digital Art, Drawing, Painting2012 -
These illustrations for How It Works Magazine demonstrate the ways in which graphics and text can be integrated together to create features that are simultaneously compelling and educational.Digital Art, Drawing, Illustration2012 -
Illustrations for an upcoming ecology textbook from WH Freeman depicting a wide-range of ecological systems: from the repercussions of our reliance on coal mining to what energy efficient smart-cities of the future may look like.Digital Art, Drawing, Illustration2012 -
An artists look at our solar system 3.8 billion years ago when the planets jostled with each other for position. Digitally painted.Digital Art, Drawing, Illustration2012 -
A selection of unique digital illustrations and artwork describing landscapes one could otherwise only imagine, created for various editorials in magazines and government agencies by Sayo-Art.Digital Art, Drawing, Illustration2011 -
Illustrations for the AACR Cancer Progress Report 2011.Illustration, Digital Art, Drawing2011 -
Complex, theoretical astrophysics explained and made tangible through illustration.Illustration, Drawing, Digital Art2011 -
A selection from the over 1,000 original drawings in the graphic adaptation of Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species, published by Rodale. Illustrated by Nicolle Rager Fuller, Written by Michael Keller. Nominated for 2 Eisner awards.Drawing, Illustration, Publishing2011 -
Dinosaurs illustrated with care and detail rarely seen in depictions of our prehistoric friends.Illustration, Drawing, Digital Art2011 -
Technology surrounds us in everything we do, but sometimes exactly how certain technologies influence our day-to-day lives can be hard to quantify. These illustrations & infographics illustrate hidden technological processes that can help us lead safer and more efficient lives.Digital Art, Drawing, Illustration2011 -
Insects are rarely regarded as beautiful creatures, but these illustrations show that this misconception is seriously misguided.Illustration, Drawing, Digital Art2011 -
Digital illustrations of various cellular functions. Imaginatively rendered and strikingly drawn, these illustrations draw you into the cellular world and allow you to visualize E. coli or the protein creation process.Digital Art, Illustration, Drawing2011 -
Artistic depictions of chemistry processes.Drawing, Digital Art, Illustration2011 -
Artfully drawn animal illustrations coupled with easy-to-grasp information combine to create these images that function both as art and as scientific information.Digital Art, Illustration, Drawing2011 -
Animals beautifully illustrated in their natural habitats.Illustration, Drawing, Digital Art2011 -
These digital illustrations depict how art can explain complex and hard to imagine natural weather phenomena and patterns.Drawing, Illustration, Digital Art2011