What Are You Drawing?

Sometimes work produced takes more research than just looking into existing work and practitioners. Sometimes a piece of work will require further investigation into the topic of the work, for example if creating illustrations for a medical book research may be required into how the organs look, how they need to drawn or broken down for the book or a book on pregnancy may require research the stages, the baby, organs etc . Without this knowledge the illustration could be wrong and no good for the purpose.

One final piece for my domestic violence brief.
An information card on how to help to prevent domestic violence.

For one previous brief I created a campaign for domestic violence against women, using facts and figures of domestic violence to create awareness and prevention. For this work I had to do a lot of research into the figures about the amount of violence. There was a lot of available material, lots of existing figures and records for many different years, countries and world wide. It required a lot of research into the information available and because i did this I was able to correctly incorporate and create my campaign around them.

Swine Flu Virus, Edmond Alexander
From: http://www.cynthiaturner

Looking at an working practitioner, Edmond Alexander shows us that research is required to create informative diagrams and illustrations. Edmond Alexander shows us how medical illustrations can not only be informative but beautiful. Alexander is a medical illustrator that specialises in not only 2D but 3D visualisation of medical information. Alexander notes that his illustrations 'have been heavily influenced by the beauty of the Disney films during his childhood years, and the art of Frank Armitage during his formative years in medical illustration,'
http://www.alexanderandturner.com/html/edmond_alexander_biography.html.
Alexanders work is recognisable through the strong and vibrant colour and very graphical, digital look to the works. The swine flu virus work demonstrates that Alexander would have had to do research into not only the swine flu virus but it's transmission from pig to human, how the virus looks and that the virus causes the production of antibodies in order to create an accurate illustration.
This principle is also demonstrated by Alexander's partner Cynthia Turner who is also a medical illustrator. One of her works on Asthma would have required research on the condition itself, bacterias, cytokines, histamines and how these all look not only themselves but within the lungs.

Cythia Turner's Illustration On Asthma
From: http://www.alexanderandturner.com/assets/images/autogen/a_19a.jpg