What is a Medical Illustrator? A medical illustrator is a professional artist with advanced education in the sciences (biology, human anatomy, physiology) and in art and design (illustration, 2D/3D/4D ...

During a printmaking class her first year at the University of Delaware, Isaura López thought a lot about bugs. The senior fine arts major said that she’s always been interested in the precision and ...

Meredith Osborn, a medical illustrator in Columbus, Ohio, talks about being both an artist and a scientist, and the respect society has for each of those roles.

We visit a medical illustrator’s studio, where boxes of bones, skulls and anatomy textbooks come to life through paint strokes and computer clicks. Medical illustrations in textbooks and journals have ...

As a medical illustrator, Audrey Thompson appreciates the value of educating through visuals. She worked on a project this semester where she leveraged her skills to teach patients and the general ...

As a practicing medical illustrator for over 30 years, I draw what can’t be seen and watch what’s never been done on a daily basis. And I teach my students to do the same. But what exactly ...

Neither of the studio’s co-founders initially envisioned careers as medical illustrators, or imagined that this could be a way to make a creative living. Both said they are grateful to have found this ...

M edical illustration is both an art and a science. But it can have a huge cultural impact, too, as medical student and illustrator Chidiebere Ibe discovered when his illustration of a pregnant ...

Wilson argues for the importance of diversity in medical illustration. Credit: Hillary D Wilson Hillary Wilson has always had a deep appreciation for art and medicine. As a child growing up in the ...

The Art That Made Medicine traces the interconnections between artistic practice and medical knowledge in Western anatomical illustration from the late 1400s to the mid-1900s. Together, artists and ...

Ibe, who will attend Kyiv Medical University in Ukraine next month, became interested in medical illustration in July 2020 and spent a year teaching himself to draw anatomy. From the start, he ...

“My biology teacher told me I’d love medical illustration, and I immediately knew I wanted to go into it,” said Smith, a second-year graduate student in AU’s Medical Illustration program.