Medical Illustration improves lives as a mode of visual communication enhancing medical education and health care around the world.

I am fueled by an eternal fire to constantly learn and progress my knowledge further.

My favorite part of Medical Illustration is taking information about topics that someone has spent years researching and developing, and bringing it to life. To be able to display their findings to the rest of the world in a visual way is an indescribable feeling. Sixty-five percent of humans are visual learners, and even those who consider themselves not most likely have never seen a microscopic organism like a Radiolaria, the three-dimensional shape of an alveolus, or the detachment of a retina. Every time I can take a complex topic and bring it to an audience and see the “ah-hah” moment on their face, be it for understanding or relating, makes it all worth it.

Complex doesn’t have to mean complicated.

Growing comprehension on topics such as medical procedures, diseases, disorders, illnesses, or even basic human functions and anatomy is always eye-opening. But when you can bring that information to those who need it, such as someone undergoing surgery or an at-risk candidate and allow them to fully understand their own body or that which is happening to them, be it positive or negative, bridges the gap between the unknown and reality.

I never want those moments to stop.

My art is an extension of me. Each piece I create not only represents my skills and ability but also exhibits a bit of my artistic soul. I’d like to think that I pour myself into my work, that each brushstroke has a purpose. I originally worked traditionally, enjoying the blend and flexibility of oil paints, but soon discovered the hidden world of digital art. Much of my art in recent years has been focused on a 3D sculpting program and later rendered out. This new change in medium allowed my work and style to grow exponentially.  Here I can create an object in the round digitally and truly get a feel for the size, weight, and structure of my subject matter. This is essential in representing accurate information about medical fields. Taking on a new medium, especially that of the digital world, was exceedingly difficult at first, but as my need to learn more, building skills in other forms of art have helped push my boundaries.

My overall goal in life is to bring about works of art I can share with others, and in doing so creating my own happiness through it.