CYRUS C.

Link: http://vimeo.com/37742808
Anatomy is not only applying in illustration but also
animation. Here is the video about a creepy human skeleton inside animal
bodies. Everything in this video are like showing in X-ray.  I think his work is worth to watch especially
for students who are majoring in animation. Hominid is an animated teaser based
on the Hominid series of photo composites created from human and veterinary
X-ray films.
You can check out their project at hominidanimation.net/.

During the CNY holiday, I went to Macau and visited The Human bodies’ exhibition in the Venetian Resort. It was an incredible educational experience  to explore more about human bodies by observing real preserved cadavers. And it could also help me to know more about how to create medical illustration by seeing body parts and organs face-to-face. You can see the real flesh, tendons, blood vessels and nerves that are impossible to observe in daily life.

The positions of different cadavers were in different posts to pretend that they are doing different works. For instance,  this is a running man to show people the composition of muscles when he is running.

That is really interesting because it reminds me of Danny Quirk’s work like this one.

And I also tried a little sketch of the underneath of hands. I’ll show you guys when I finish it.

I want to share a design I recently did which was a medical illustration magazine design. And people would definitely recognized who’s artwork is this. Yea the image I choose is Danny’s piece from his project- self dissections.

I used Anatomist as the name because I think this could attract people who is working in biological field. It was the first time I did something about medical illustration and I am quite satisfied with this design as my first medical artwork.

I hope that everyone would like my work!

Carbon Dust is a classic technique for scientific and medical illustration which was widely used  in 20th century. It is invented by Max Brodel, who was a medical illustrator from Germany. This technique shows the transition from light to dark beautifully and highlights can be easily scraped by knife. However, sadly, carbon dust is no longer popular among the world because of the morden illutration technique like three-dimensional renders and endoscopic cameras.

To try this out, we need to grind some carbon dust from carbon pencil (but not graphite) and pick it by dry brushes. Score the silhouette from a acetate plate carefully and start paint the outline of the shape by brushes. after that, you can establish the volumes of the object by blending. At the end, highlights can be created by scraping the dust off the paper.