Christopher Huet is considered to be a master at photo retouching. He’s used by all the top ad agencies in the world and there’s no doubt you’ve seen his work in ads for anything from Adidas to Guinness.
Huet says of his work,
My purpose is to make people forget the retouching itself even if it seems obvious because of the singularity of the image.
He certainly succeeds in combining elements to make seamless images. Be sure to look through his portfolio site because he shows the step by step process for retouching each photo. It’s really quite amazing to flip back and forth between each step to see the transformation.
Heather Tompkins is a talented filmaker, illustrator, and designer. She’s got a very fun and creative website that’s definitely worth taking a look through (it’s all hand drawn!).
It looks like her focus is on filmmaking, but her illustrations are excellent. Her line work is loose and expressive, making her illustrations feel very energized and effortless. Hope she considers doing more anatomical work.
One of my readers, Aman Agah, had her wonderful heart tattoo designed by Heather and done by Colby Long.
Big thanks to Aman for letting me know about Heather’s work.
Interesting article in the New York Magazine entitled, “You Walk Wrong,” on how we’re all taking an evolutionary step backward by wearing shoes.
Last year, researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, published a study titled “Shod Versus Unshod: The Emergence of Forefoot Pathology in Modern Humans?” in the podiatry journal The Foot. The study examined 180 modern humans from three different population groups (Sotho, Zulu, and European), comparing their feet to one another’s, as well as to the feet of 2,000-year-old skeletons. The researchers concluded that, prior to the invention of shoes, people had healthier feet. Among the modern subjects, the Zulu population, which often goes barefoot, had the healthiest feet while the Europeans—i.e., the habitual shoe-wearers—had the unhealthiest. One of the lead researchers, Dr. Bernhard Zipfel, when commenting on his findings, lamented that the American Podiatric Medical Association does not “actively encourage outdoor barefoot walking for healthy individuals. This flies in the face of the increasing scientific evidence, including our study, that most of the commercially available footwear is not good for the feet.”
Street Anatomy, created by Vanessa Ruiz, obsessively covers the use of human anatomy in art, advertising, and design. Be sure to take a look through the anatomical street art and tattoo galleries. We're always looking for new additions!
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