As a medical illustrator, studying the work of other artists is an important part of my free time, I would like to offer some perspective and, for what it is worth, an admittedly subjective but well-researched chronology for those interested in the best medical illustrators in history, and in different regions arund the world. I realize there are going to be enormous gaps. Please feel free to write to me and to comment below, and to add your favorites so my perspective can be the most well-rounded possible.
Hailed the "co-founder of entomology" Maria Sibylla Merian is renowned because of her skills at close direct observation, accurate documentation, insights about insect life cycles, and her ability to transport her viewers to this world
Leonardo dissected more than 30 diseased and healthy human corpses during his lifetime, as a means of discovering human anatomy. Philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle were curious about the body. But they did not dissect it in order to create a realistic model for reference. Consequently, Da Vinci's renderings are remarkably accurate.
Laura Maaske – Medimagery LLC has 20 years of experience making medicine beautiful and understandable. I’ve always loved expressing complicated concepts and seeking the beauty of natural forms.
Some Very Basic Lessons on How to Draw a High Quality Medical illustration
For students who simply want advice on how to improve the clarity of their scientific or medical illustrations, this video is a good basic resource. It’s a set of practices you might learn in the first week of a medical illustration program, for good practice:
Cataracts are generally defined as breakdown of the lens microarchitecture. Normally in vision, light passes through the lens of the eye so that the image can be projected clearly on the retina. This image is then interpreted as a neural signal. If the lens is unclear, which is a condition called a cataract, the image projected on the retina will be cloudy or blurred. With a cataract, some even, perhaps a DNA mutation, causes opacity of the crystalline lens. It may be there isa structure change accompanied by changs inin lens protein constituents. The opacity or cloudiness means that the refractive index of the lens varies significantly over distances approximating the wavelength of the transmitted light.