mark belan | science illustrator + info designerさんのイラストまとめ

Originally, stars were plotted as luminosity against COLOR, and by color I mean the wavelength of the peak intensity 〰️

You would have short wavelengths on the left, and long ones on the right. This is standard convention in wavelength science.

🗓️July 2022: The Rise of AI Art

🤖Widespread access to generative AI tools fuels inspiration—and controversy. Concern for artist rights and copyright violations grow as these programs potentially threaten to diminish creative labor.

Art: Jason Allen (or is it???)

🗓️January 2022: The James Webb Space Telescope Arrives At Its Destination

🛰️JWST is our state-of-the-art “window” into deep space. With more access to the infrared spectrum, new images and observations of outer space will become available

Art: Daniel Harries/@DanielHarries88

The animals are all digitally hand drawn in Photoshop ✍️🏻While it was a lot of work (~2 weeks), I had a lot of fun doing it. I used some 3D models from #Sketchfab as references, since you can turn the models around within a browser to get the lighting + angles you need.

Chantelle studies the societal implications of multiple sclerosis on workers in Sweden. This piece shows women workers navigating their paths in life, represented by a degrading neural axon (specifically, the myelin sheath), a characteristic of MS

Aside from the day job, I also freelance for scientists and their research publications🔬📚📔 Here are some graphics I made for #NASA, #NYBG, and other institutions in the past few years! Of course I did my own illustrations for my own science paper, too! #research

Identifying these hurdles in my own studies is where I found the calling to prioritize my creative/artistic skills into science. I graduated + then enrolled in the University of Toronto's @MScBMC Program in 2015. It was very bio-focused, but here are some projects from that time:

Here are artists in the medical illustration community, both Black creators and creators who have produced Black illustrations, that have been producing with integrity for a long time:
@NikaFord_
@fairmanstudios
Hillary Wilson, Nobles Green II, @DorothyFatunmbi, to name a few.

I really enjoyed visiting @EttoreMazza_art's rendition of homo bodoensis (left) and wanted to give it a go (right). I'm by no means a paleoartist (there is likely some minutia that an anthropologist will cry at) but I really enjoyed the creative process here ☺️

UPDATE: I made a big, bad, amateur science boo-boo on the first publication of this piece - I messed up the direction of the DNA spiral!🤦🏻‍♂️ Here's the updated version. #synbio #synthbio #sciart #scientificillustration #DNA #science #art #illustration #infographics