8.17.2009

have a heart



So this is a left lateral view of a human heart for my advanced illustration class.

Our program director told us a few key illustrations that are good for a medical illustrator to have in his/her portfolio:

1. a nice face
2. nice hands
3. a well-rendered heart

So I thought I'd give the "well-rendered heart" a try in Adobe Illustrator.

I've always loved vector styles; since I'm planning on going into a field that's more technology-based than straight-up illustration, and since the instructor of the illustration class encouraged us to experiment/pursue our own signature styles, I thought I'd give this a shot.

Here is what I learned:
HEART FAT IS REALLY HARD TO RENDER.

I wish I could show you a screenshot of my Illustrator workspace--I keep about a million reference images just outside the borders of my artboard, and the space just looks ridiculous--but many of the images are copyrighted. It's one thing for me to download them for my own personal use, but to repost them online is probably not legal. So it goes.


[Adobe Illustrator]

at 8:21 AM

4 Comments.:

  1. I wonder if you could, like, blur or pixelate the reference images (or maybe only the roughly 900,000 or so which are copyrighted). Ever since I was a little kid I've always dreamed of seeing just how hard it is to render heart fat. It would be a shame for copyright law to squash that dream, don't you think? ;)

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  2. holy vector work batman! and i thought i worked illustrator well. great work!

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  3. John- the last two paragraphs (heart fat and my workspace) aren't really related. I'm bad at transitions. :)

    Donny- Donny. It's so weird to call you by a real name. Thank you. :D

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  4. All evidence indicates I'm rather bad at dreams, so no harm, no foul.

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