IAmSciArtさんのイラストまとめ

I recently finished a bunch of scientific illustration commissions for ARUP Group including this Small Heath Butterfly. Usually I draw insects traditionally but I had so much fun creating this using my iPad. Love the end result too! #sciart

I was recently commissioned by a genetics company to design a series of colourful illustrations for a disease-themed educational card game! Here's a few of my favorites from the project! :-) #sciart

Here's some Hognose snake illustrations I did recently for a care guide I'm putting together in my spare time. I used my own Danger Noodle for reference. He's such a character!

We had a tremendous thunderstorm last night; tremendous to me at least! I grew up somewhere that rarely sees lightning, so this is always a treat. Sunset clouds, red rainbow, pouring rain, the works!

Re: pigment flow again, physics can surprise you. This was a lunchtime sketch of a Garibaldi. I dropped the same two neutral complements (cobalt and orange) into the fins. The blue flowed into the orange without blending, creating lovely shadows.

Two neutral complements can represent a surprising array of hues, depending on your topic. These birds were a paper test, all using Cobalt blue (PB28) and Burnt Sienna (PBr7). That Great Blue Heron looks a bit more like a Tricolor, oops!

I posted this one earlier, bringing it back now as a good case study for the technique. The sky is all cobalt blue (PB28) and perinone orange (PO62). Add each to wet paper, swirl a bit, stand back and watch the magic!

My own expression of #SciArt so far is documentary in nature… documentary OF nature really. If I could, I'd draw, paint, and take notes on every species I see! The bugs alone would be a full time job, never mind the birds. And it would be a dream job for me.

Field sketches:

Other end of the spectrum, was sketching a pond when a passer-by asked if I'd noticed the osprey. It was in a tree right over my head!

I had maybe 20 minutes while the bird groomed and hung out, before it flew away.

Something that began to fascinate me, is the way pigment and water can so effectively replicate things that happen in the sky. It doesn't make sense, really - how does water, sugar, tree sap, and ground-up rocks look so much like air and ice? But it does! (Summer Storm, 2014)