by ikumikayama | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by ikumikayama | Feb 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by ikumikayama | Jan 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by ikumikayama | Aug 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
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...
by ikumikayama | Aug 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
Here is another video I made to help illustrators paint in Photoshop. What is a good way to stay inside the lines while you paint? One of the tools you can use is the quick mask tool. It’s prominently featured in the main palette, but not that many illustrators...
