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Photography vs Illustration: 7 areas where photos fall short
"Why not take photos?" Installment #1: Bird Photography Edition "Why not take photos?" When talking about photography vs illustration, this is probably one of the most common questions I get. The easy answer is, "because photos can't do the same things illustrations...
How to WOW your audience with your scientific research presentation
Have a 10 minute PowerPoint presentation slot at the next meeting? Scientific Presentations are an effective way of sharing research, gaining professional recognition, and attracting attention to novel approaches and findings. The problem is, most presentation slots...
Photoshop Tutorial: Use Lasso Tool Like a Frisket
How to be concise with the lasso tool For Illustrators and Scientists using Photoshop as a precise painting/editing tool: Imagine being able to precisely paint inside the lines in Photoshop without worrying about perfecting the path tool. Make your illustrations go...
Preparing a scientific presentation? Read this first.
PowerPoint Tips for the Scientist Almost everyone is a little bit guilty of taking a power nap during a PowerPoint presentation. If you are the one on the podium, though, that’s demoralizing. After all, you spent months writing abstracts and proposals, setting up...
Scientific Illustration Overview – What is Scientific Illustration?
Scientific Illustration as a communication tool In the recent years, there's been an explosion of scientific research. More papers are published today than ever before, and scientists are making new discoveries every day. Using scientific illustration effectively to...
Medical Illustration Overview – What is Medical Illustration?
Medical Illustration as a communication tool There are many ways in which people communicate, and visual communications is one of the most successful. Medical Illustration is a field of study that combines medicine, communication, and visualization. By using visuals...
How to make a sweet heart out of M&M’s
Happy Valentine's Day! To honor this "holiday", I created an anatomical heart made of M&M's! It was fun to swoop the different colored candy into place as I recreated the shapes of the different anatomical structures. Yes, in case you were wondering, I snacked on...
Website Update 2013
Happy new year! Hope everyone is having a great start to the new year. Here at Studio Kayama, we are updating our website! Please pardon the dust for few days as we go through the upgrading process. There might be few broken links and a longer load time. The new...
Anatomy of Sports Day
The National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland hosted a program titled Anatomy of Sports. I was one of the invited medical illustrators who painted muscles on athletes to show which muscles were used when playing different types of sports. The...