News & Insights
Updates, teachings and tips & tricks for anyone interested in the field of medical illustration and animation.
Online Course: Working as a medical illustrator
A course created for medical illustrators by professional medical illustrators, actively working in the field. BIG NEWS! We are delighted to announce that we are launching our first online course on 31st March 2022! The Learn Medical Art team has been very busy behind the scenes over the past year putting together this course focussing on working as a medical illustrator.
What is a Medical Legal Review Process?
A medical-legal review refers to the process that your content should go through before it is published to the general public. It ensures the information you portray is correct and not misleading which can potentially land you in hot water. Here we discuss why engaging trained medical illustrators can give you the peace of mind that your content is prepared appropriately for the process, saving you time and money.
How Medical Illustrations Can Boost Your Start-Up Business
What are medical illustrations and what sort would you need to help create a lasting impression of your start-up businesses brand? Here we discuss how commissioning medical illustration and animations can add many supporting elements for your brand that can be built upon as your company grows and diversifies.
What is a pharmaceutical MOA animation and why you should have one?
Explaining the complex science behind your drug or medical device can be challenging, particularly when you have to pitch to a diverse range of people from KOLs, investors and patients to name a few. Helping your audience visualise your research is a great way to quickly share how you are addressing unmet medical needs in your specialism. Making information simple to understand and sharable to a wider audience.
How medical illustration and animation can boost your medical conference booth or presentation
Medical illustrations and animations can play a big role in helping start-ups, biotech companies and larger pharmaceutical companies to improve the impact that they can make at a conference or trade stand. Investing in good quality medical animations and illustrations can help communicate and promote your business image as well as explain complex scientific data in a simple and easy way.
3 top tips for drawing faces in your medical illustrations
Hi friends, Annie here. Like I’ve said many times before, figures serve as our canvas for many of the medical illustrations that we create. So when it comes to drawing faces, we need to make sure we’re creating figures that are visually appealing as well as stay true to their form. Today I wanted to share with you some quick tips for drawing faces and making them look beautiful.
Figure drawing quick tips: How to draw hair
In this video, you can get a glimpse into the type of in-house training she provides her team members at Now Medical Studios. Susie provides a clear and easy approach to drawing hair that has volume, is believable, and stands up to commercial medical illustration projects. Immerse yourself into the professional world and have a watch to get an insight into her thought process as she does a draw over and provides feedback to another medical illustration artist.
Medical illustration tutorial: How to create cross sections in tubes
Medical illustration director, Annie Campbell, shows you how mastering primitive shapes (like tubes) can help you draw believable cross sections.
Creative Studio of the Year Award
We are absolutely delighted to share that we won Creative Studio of the Year 2021/22 for the Corporate LiveWire Scotland Prestige Awards!
The 12 Principles of Animation for Medical Illustrators
The 12 principles of animation are a set of animation fundamentals developed by Disney animators in the 1930s to help give more realism to their animations. It's important for medical illustrators and animators to know these principles. This article will teach you how to apply these principles in your medical animations.
New team member - Angela Douglass
We’re delighted to introduce you to our newest member of the team, medical artist Angela Douglass. Take it away, Angela!
An interview with medical illustrator Emily Holden
I am Emily Holden, one of the Directors of Now Medical Studios. We have such a wonderful team here at NMS and they are constantly bringing their unique experiences and talents to the table. I wanted to share a bit of my own journey to becoming a medical illustrator and animator to hopefully inspire others to join this fascinating career path.
How this medical illustration of a woman with lung anatomy was created
In this Photoshop video tutorial and article, medical illustration director, Annie Campbell, provides a unique insight into how Now Medical Studios created this medical illustration of a lady with lung/respiratory anatomy.
Why hire trained medical illustrators?
The field of medical illustration is one that is perhaps unknown to many. We are surrounded by its imagery - in the media, on posters hanging in the doctors office or in patient information leaflet explaining disease or a surgical procedure. Often people do not realise that these images are created by specialists.
Learn how to use photo references to create great figure drawings
Using photo reference is an important part of the figure drawing process because we need to create images that are not only accurate, but also original, and true to the subject that we want to show. This tutorial shows you how to use photo references for your figure drawings in your medical illustrations.
Top tips for buying a digital drawing tablet for a medical illustrator
If you’re in the market to buy a digital drawing tablet for your medical illustration production, this video and article by medical illustrator, Annie Campbell, provides some insight as you make your equipment purchase.
An interview with medical illustrator Annie Campbell
Annie here, I’m one of the Directors of Now Medical Studios (if you’re reading this, you should also go check out our other Director’s profile, Emily Holden). I’m thrilled to be part of an amazing and talented team of medical illustrators. I thought I’d share a little bit about myself so that you can get an insight into who I am and where I’ve come from.
New team member - Angela Yeung
We’re delighted to introduce you to our newest member of the team, medical artist Angela Yeung. Take it away, Angela!
New team member - Juman Hamza
We’re delighted to introduce you to our newest member of the team, medical artist Juman Hamza. Welcome Juman!
Annie presents a keynote at the 2020 Dundee Masters Showcase Speaker Programme
Annie presents a keynote at the 2020 Masters Showcase Speaker Programme for the University of Dundee. Join Annie as she discusses her work. Following this will be an opportunity to ask questions. The evening will be chaired by Laura-Jane Logue, graduating MSc Medical Art student, currently an intern at the Royal College of Surgeons.
Learn Medical Art
Want to learn more about medical illustration and some tips and tutorials for pursuing a career in the field? Our educational channel Learn Medical Art is here to help.