Scientific Illustration

Over the years, I have enjoyed helping biologists communicate their research effectively and accurately through illustrations. Examples:

Left: Turtle skull reconstruction based on broken fossil fragments. This illustration helps with species identification and documentation (Medium: Pencil).

Right: six views of one turtle skull (Medium: Adobe Illustrator)

Client: American Museum of Natural History (2008)
 

I reconstructed a fossil skeleton then overlaid it on top of fossil footprints. To ensure accuracy, I used screen digital measurement tools and accounted for errors with statistics. This enabled me and my fellow researcher to deduce the stance and gait of an extinct animal.

Published in Paleontology (2008)
 

Digital illustrations comparing the cranial structures of two species of dinosaurs, proposing that one “specie” is actually the juvenile form of the other.

Published in PLoS One (2008)
 

Clients: NASA exhibit at Kennedy Space Center (2013), Berkeley Museum of Zoology (2007)
 

Illustration for a genetic study that explores the formation of turtle shells. The rest of the study includes slides similar to c, and this illustration clarifies the origin and orientation of these slides.

Published in Evolution & Development (2009)
 

Digital illustration of American Pika skull for a study that explores the relationship between environment, e.g. elevation, and cranial morphology.