Art for Scientific and Healthcare Application ASHA
Biomedical Illustration
Good health should be accessible for all. Healthcare and well-being should not be subject to educational privilege, cultural background or ethnicity. Many healthcare professionals (HCPs) are highly trained and specialised in their fields and relaying their knowledge and information in an accessible format is paramount. With medical illustration, we can help bridge the gap between HCPs and patients, educators and students, and amongst HCPs themselves through knowledge translation by creating and showcasing understandable, audience-specific illustrations, graphics and diagrams.
Some projects I have worked on are showcased below, in some cases indicated you can click to view more information about the project.
01
First page published illustration
Published illustration in The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) Atlas of Tumor and Non-Tumor Pathology of the superior view of a transverse section of the female lower abdomen.
02
Creating animations to help people with endometrial cancer understand more about their diagnosis and treatment. This project is for The ELECTRA Project initiated with Bart's Health and is being completed in collaboration with Peaches Womb Cancer Trust.
This illustration shows the two most common Endometrial Cancer Types, endometrioid carcinoma and serous carcinoma. Click to view more from this project.
03
Anatomy of the inner and outer eye
Illustrations of the outer eye using graphite and oil paint. The inner eye illustrations were digitally drawn using Procreate. Anatomy sources obtained using UBCs Clinical Anatomy.
04
Delivered a soft-launch of an online educational module for maternity providers in Canada as part of a group project. The intended outcomes were to create informative and understandable illustrations and videos in order to better maternity providers to effectively and safely deliver breech babies.
This is a screenshot from a section on the online module of a footling breech. Click to view more information on this project.
This diagram was designed to illustrate how the aims of the study would deliver the study outcomes, to 'bridge the gap' as endometrial cancer is understudied and underfunded. Click to view more information on this project.
05
Grant applications pose different challenges as they have strict word count and page number restrictions.
The brief for this project was to concisely illustrate the aims, framework and team outline of the proposed project for the grant application. The team were successful in the application and were awarded the TFRI Grant.
06
Layers of the face and head
This animation was made by creating layers of illustrations of different components of the head and neck, e.g. bone, blood vessels, muscles, skin, etc. The application primarily used was Procreate.
07
Digestive system for kids
The brief of this project was to design an engaging and understandable video teaching children about the digestive system. The colours, animation style, need for constant movement and wording used were specifically considered during production. This animation was created using Adobe Illustrator, AfterEffects and Procreate.
08
3D Model of a Eukaryotic Cell
This 3D model of a cell and its organelles was constructed and rendered in Blender. It was then uploaded to SketchFab and this video of the features and captions of the different organelles was recorded. This was the first time I tried to create a 3D model and, although it was technically challenging and it is not quite perfect, attempting to construct each organelle with its specific characteristics was incredibly enjoyable. The uploaded interactive version can be viewed here.
