Tree Kil Moon

hehe, this one is for my brother. Not that he reads my blog... but he used to listen to the band Sun Kil Moon. This is not the sun, but a tree killing the moon.

I actually just really wanted to paint, so I made a limited palette of colours I never use and had some fun!

Here's my palette:

Any my little painting:

Logan's Letters...

So I have been doing this one for a while now. This was a gift I made for my nephew, Logan, who just turned 2 and LOVES his letters. I'm pretty happy with it... I just wish I had planned ahead and bought a proper frame and matte board... oh well. I don't think he cares about those things yet.

Pathology

I am prematurely posting this for no reason other than I am bored.

I just changed my lighting so the highlights/shadows are wrong... I am going to change the colours now too. Everything looks so dead. This is an illustration of the skin and the changes that it undergoes when someone has an allergic reaction to poison ivy. I think I need to make it more fleshy and alive looking. I think the mist in the background and the "sunset" might be a little too dramatic for this... but whatever. We'll see what happens as I continue to paint.

Med Legal Portrait Stage 1

I have to paint a portrait of a 16 year old girl. I decided to paint my bestest of the best, Benny! Sadly, I just copied from a picture of her so I can't take much credit for it.

I have NO idea how to paint in photoshop... I am just putting blobs of colour down and trying to find the major colours and tones of her face. I think it is looking pretty cool so far... I have much more to go still though!

Enjoy!

Patho roughs

For our pathology class we need to create a sequential tissue study showing a pathology over time. I chose poison ivy. The boxes will eventually contain call-outs... and there will be text too... so if you are confused about the grey boxes.. no worries. They are placeholders.

The major project is to create this illustration for a double page spread of a scientific magazine. I thought about the layout a bit and have included it. I played around with colour too... though I did a pretty messy job of it.

I don't think this will be my final sequence because I just don't like it very much...

Excuse the nakedness...

I am finally becoming more comfortable in photoshop. I drew this while Dan and I were watching the movie "Up". Obviously I was influenced by this beautiful film. I really think the intro should be its own short film... love love.

Tissue Landscape

School project...

I chose skin as my tissue and started with a thumbnail...



Made a pretty line drawing...



I ended up photocopying it at school and played around with my markers. Sadly, my sebaceous gland is funky looking and I didn't realize it until class yesterday when we learned what glands really look like. Oops.



We also needed to include at least one "call-out" in the composition. I outlined in markers where my call-outs could potentially go. I didn't bother doing detailed images. Since I messed up the glands I figured I would just leave this as a composition study.


I think I am happy enough leaving it like this. It is just a small assignment and I think I could be working on more important things than re-doing the whole thing tonight. It was a very fun assignment and I kind of want to re-do the whole thing. I completed it on Tuesday between classes.

Tissues!

I have an assignment in my surgical illustration class to draw a variety of tissues. This is my first page I have completed. I have part of the femur, and some cut skin, either retracted or stapled. The girl is from my program. I drew her today in class because I was a little bored.

Markers!

Just a quick sketch I did of my watch. Probably didn't take me more than 5 minutes. I didn't like it that much, but my boyfriend did, so I posted it!!!

Surgical Illustration Sketches

Here are some of the sketches I did to practice for surgical illustration. They are either 20 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes, or unidentified. I think I am slowly improving on my speed as I go! I experimented with pencil, marker and pen for these drawings.

Enjoy!

Immunology Illustration

Yet again, another textbook illustration. I completed this in Adobe Illustrator and placed it into a pseudo textbook page for effect! Hopefully it is clear and easy to understand. That is what I am going for!!!!

Rendered Skull

I rendered the skull from previous posts using carbon dust. It is a technique used in medical illustration. It was my first time using it and I found the medium to be very forgiving and enjoyable to work with. I am happy with the results and I hope you enjoy it!

Update on Grant's Museum Anatomy Pics!

I took my rough sketches and I made them pretty with wonderful lines! I closed the mouth on the sagittal section of the head, I also made the teeth of the skull straight.

School Stuff

Here are some of my sketches from the Grant's Museum at U of T. Hope you like them!!!