Art of human anatomy
When I make a scientific illustration, whatever I am drawing: an animal, an insect, a plant, a part of the human anatomy … I create a personal and intimate relationship with that drawn object. Because I spend hours observing, studying every curve and every detail, color … I know him intimately and I represent him on the blank page at its best! Or, if it is a more artistic illustration, I represent it as I feel it, how it looks through my eyes.
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That is why it is not surprising that my relationship with the objects that I draw is like a long friendship, like that old friend whose strengths and weaknesses you know and who has entrusted you with his secrets.
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Communicating human anatomy through Art is an opportunity to know and connect with ourselves and our biology, in a meaningful, deep and emotional way.
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We can do it to help others, with medical scientific illustration. Helping doctor-patient communication or researching and communicating human anatomy to new students. Even being very rigorous, these medical scientific illustrations can convey great artistic value.
Bourgery & Jacob
Leonardo da Vinci
We can also use human anatomy as inspiration for personal artistic work, in a way that leads us to know our own body and how wonderful is the way it works.
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Make your guts into an heart. Isa Loureiro
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I recommend you see this talk by Vanessa Ruiz, who in addition to being a medical illustrator, is dedicated to collecting and sharing the artistic work of anatomy lovers.
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