Medical illustration in veterinary sciences combines advanced education in science and art. For insights into this line of work, AVMA News interviewed four experts about this unique profession, the challenges these professionals face, and how they’ve developed their careers. This is the first article in our three-part series.

Our Learn Medical Art co-founder Annie Campbell shares some tips in the fundamentals of line drawing in your medical illustration. In this video, Annie shares some tips on how to draw transparency with only line illustrations. These are techniques used by the old masters of medical illustration and it's nice to see how these techniques can be easily translated to digital illustrations.

In this video, medical illustrator Susie Brighouse, provides art direction and feedback for figure drawing in a recent medical illustration project. The feedback notes she provides reflects that of a studio environment so immerse yourself into the professional world and have a watch to get an insight into her thought process as she does a draw over and provides feedback to another medical illustration artist.

In this video, you can get a glimpse into the type of in-house training she provides her team members at Now Medical Studios. Susie provides a clear and easy approach to drawing hair that has volume, is believable, and stands up to commercial medical illustration projects. Immerse yourself into the professional world and have a watch to get an insight into her thought process as she does a draw over and provides feedback to another medical illustration artist.

Being able to depict protein folds in an accurate way is one of the many knowledge points that comes with being a medical illustrator. Seasoned medical illustrator, Veronica Falconieri Hays, shares a resource that you can add to your toolkit to help you depict protein Alpha folds correctly in her most recent article.

The Educational Resources team of the College of Veterinary Medicine and The University of Georgia have produced over 50 free iBooks, filled to the brim with amazing veterinary illustrations and educational content.

Today, medical illustration director, Emily Holden shows how you can use the Photoshop mixer brush to clean up and digitally paint your medical illustration so that you have a seamless piece.

Today, medical illustration director, Annie Campbell, shows you how to use Photoshop to digitally paint anatomy underneath the skin so that the transparencies look believable and not like it's been stamped on.

In this medical illustration tutorial, Annie Campbell from Now Medical Studios shares her studio’s process for creating this kidney cross-section digital illustration.

In this tutorial medical illustrator Annie Campbell will show you how to use Adobe Illustrator’s blend tool to create vector blood vessels.