What a Heart
February 12th, 2008 by Vanessa Ruiz
Illustrating a heart seems to be the right of passage for all aspiring medical illustrators in graduate school. It’s a wonderful exercise in rendering form and achieving a sense of volume using light and shadow. It’s also good practice for rendering those pesky globules of fat.
Jessica Wheat, a second year graduate student in UIC’s Biomedical Visualization program, illustrated this lovely heart. Jessica has a very nice loose painterly style present in all of her work. It makes the anatomy seem more organic and fluid. It’s a nice change from some of the highly stylized and ridged anatomical illustrations we see at times.
View more of Jessica’s work at her portfolio site.
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Wow! such a beautiful graphic of medical art..
reminds me a bit of marie rossettie’s style. I believe her portfolio is still hosted at http://www.medicalillustration.us
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