Media: graphite, photoshop
It’s ironic that the baby’s head is never shown, when the surgery is all about getting the full term fetus out, but it never became necessary to show the head.
Cesarean section surgical illustration, with emphasis on suture layers
Final comps for the porcine surgical piece – in this case, the removal of both the ovaries and uterus. Steps were limited to 3-5 within 1 or 2 plates, plus and image for orientation, and minimalism in content was pushed. This kind of illustration would be in a journal, accompanying an article, and the idea is that those readers would have the background knowledge to be able to recognize these relatively abstract tissue shapes.
Media: crowquill pen and ink, Illustrator, final format in bitmap.
Porcine ovariohysterectomy, page 1
Porcine ovariohysterectomy, page 2
Unless you use a lot of surgical instruments often, it can be difficult memorizing/learning the myriad instruments common in surgeries. There are lots of surgical instrument catalogs online, but they’re not designed for educational uses and can have 100’s of variations. So here are a few sites online that clarify the more common ones, each with images that at least get the job done.
