Origami Crane Sketch
Sunday, July 11th, 2010Just did a digital sketch of an origami crane. It’s interesting, once you do a few web searches, you realize what a popular artistic subject this is, even things like silver cast jewelry.
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Sketches
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010I’ve had more time for sketching lately — here are a few of my latest subjects!
All images ©2010 Michelle Reinke
Graduation!
Monday, May 10th, 2010Last Friday I got a large piece of paper with both my name an lots of Latin on it — the Master of Science in Medical Illustration is official! The plan now is to move to the Dallas/Denton area of Texas. To that end I’m continuing the job search in earnest.
So what have I done on my first official day of unemployment? Went back to the studio, of course, and played around with modeling and rendering in Cinema 4D. Your guess is as good as mine as to what these little spiky balls are:
Surgery Illustration Process
Sunday, January 17th, 2010I thought I’d show my working process in photoshop, starting with drawing and going toward finished illustration!
This portrays the pulling/dissecting up of the gallbaldder from the liver bed. It’s actually kind of a bloody mess; it’s not like the gallbladder just sits and hangs out by the liver, it becomes tightly invested in it via connective tissue and small vessels.
The checked background is the default background in photoshop, letting you know what’s transparent and what’s not. I’d probably leave that out next time.
The original drawing, scanned and masked
Initial masking and tonal development
More finessing of tonal base and vignetting
even more tonal finessing
Rough color study - see the blood?
Refined color choices and flat masking
The final - more vignetting, adjustment of tone, and more color variation, and highlights.
It needed to be clear that it’s not the prettiest thing to happen in the body, but didn’t want to get gory. The final looks rather watercolorish in some respects.
Ear sketch
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Male left ear, graphite. Well, to be precise it’s just the auricle. The middle and inner ear can’t be seen.
Thanks, Chris Davis.
