How to become a scientific or medical illustrator

by Jessie Good, Scientific illustrator

I recently attended the Guild of Natural Science Illustrator’s annual conference, and heard a lot of people describe getting into the filed this way:

“I was a science student, but I didn’t want to do research. I also took art classes, but my teachers did not like my work because it was so representative.”

When I heard that story the first time, I said “Exactly! That’s exactly how it was for me!” (although I was an art student taking science classes.) Neither of the fields really fit, but mixed together they fit like a glove.

Trying to figure out how these things fit together was a huge challenge for me, and the process took me three years after I had a pretty clear idea of where I was going – because that is how long it took me to figure out what this field is, and how it fits in with the related fields.

Over the course of these years I have learned a good deal of information that really would have made life easier if I had known these things from the beginning.

I have received an increasing number of inquiries from scientist/artists who are trying to figure out whether scientific or medical illustration is the field for them, and I realized that this information that came so hard for me comes pretty hard for everyone.

Because of this, I have created a report that will ease this process for you. In the report, I give you all of the pertinent information about this field that I have garnered, and have done research to fill in any blanks.

I hope that you find this information helpful in your decision about what career path to follow.

"Report: Becoming a Scientific or Medical Illustrator." Download now for $6.95.

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