Blunt Dissection

My illustration of the mosquito hemostat.  A fabulous dissecting tool because it's blunt so won't cut through important structures and it easily spreads fascia, tissue, and muscle. (Sounds like a morbid infomercial.)Medical illustrators need to know more than human anatomy. We need to be able to differentiate the many types of surgical instruments used during surgery. This is especially important when doing surgical illustrations for textbooks, manuals, or journals. Because you can't confuse a Kelly hemostat with a mosquito hemostat, and you can't draw the wrong sized scalpel blade.Accuracy is important because a surgeon looking at a surgical illustration for reference needs to trust that everything is correct down to the last detail.