Beau and Alan Daniels “create cutaway, ghosted and phantom view medical illustrations, realistic and stylized.”
No wonder they have an impressive portfolio of commercial work. I may be partial to medical illustration in general, but I think these are rather wonderful.
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If only these wonderful creations by Mathias Koehler and Alessandro Beda were not just concept toys!
I want all of them!
And the perfect Valentine gift:
Found on Street Anatomy
Ooh, these Kate Street illustrations make my heart flutter!
Gorgeous amalgams of anatomy and nature never fail to delight me. Flesh and bone, flora and fauna…interaction and fusion…
I love how these images make the eye search and decipher!
I think I’ll use this one as a Valentine next month:
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Seen on Morbid Anatomy.
Brazilian artist Walmor Correa takes his inspiration from a strong science background, during which he practiced sketching the anatomy of laboratory creatures.
He paints “improbable beings with a spine-tingling familiarity about them,” evoking vintage anatomical charts with detailed fictional taxonomy.
Clearly, I’ve been fascinated with fantastical imitations of biology lately. The art world is home to fictional creatures aplenty, most often depicted on a surface level. Developing an anatomical study adds dimension, and seems to give life to these imaginary beasts.
See more on the artist website.
Thanks to Matt P. for reminding me that I had planned to do a cartoon skeleton post. We’ll start with Michael Paulus.
In the artist’s own words: I tended to take for granted the distortions and strange bodies of these entities.These Icons are usually grotesquely distorted from the human form from which they derive.
I decided to take a select few of these popular characters and render their skeletal systems as I imagine they might resemble if one truly had eye sockets half the size of its head, or fingerless-hands, or feet comprising 60% of its body mass.
(I love the skeletal arm stumps!)
See the rest here.
Now for a three dimensional representation of cartoon anatomical structure, I bring you Hyungkoo Lee, “pop palaeontologist” extraordinaire.
Cartoon characters are not real; they are two-dimensional exaggerations of human behaviour. Yet, over time, they have entered the pantheon of global popular culture and are more recognizable than the real personalities that shape our world (Just consider the multi-national empire that is Disney).
Our own predisposition to anthropomorphize furry (and feathered) creatures allows us to endow them with personalities that reflect our own and to place them in situations that mirror the trials and tribulations of our daily lives. So, if these cartoon figures can represent us in a simplified, yet extreme form, it follows that this form can be deconstructed and analyzed. –Source
As long as we’re talking about cakes today, I have to show my appreciation for the medical textbook cake I found here.
I have to try my hand at another medical themed cake soon.
I’ve learned something about myself through these blog posts. I really enjoy fashion photography…providing it has a dark and morbid edge. The spindly models and drastic angles lend themselves nicely to the macabre.
Fumie Sasabuchi retouches fashion magazines with underlying anatomical structure; a lovely juxtaposition with the polished images of socially constructed “perfection.”
Such a fantastic Stepford Wives vibe to these…
I’m intrigued, impressed…a little bit in love…with this incredible MRI-style brain image puzzle.
Like an actual scan, the puzzle contains “slices” and cross sections, creating a three dimensional rendering of the human brain.
I want to dig in…
Since I tend to make multimedia projects instead of two dimensional art, I find Lyndie Dourthe’s work positively inspiring (particularly the Anatomie series pictured below).
My head is spinning with ideas…
I’ve always found eyes to be the most fascinating human feature. I’ve never seen photos that so masterfully detail the intricate configurations of pattern and color in the human eye.
The one below resembles the color scheme of my own eyes (though the brown in mine is a small circle around the center and doesn’t extend outward), which has been notoriously hard to describe.
I highly recommend the rest of these photos!
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