Medical Illustration

Did you know that there are jobs that combine science and art? Medical illustrators get paid to draw parts of the body and other health related images for textbooks, scientific papers, online sites, and more! Learn to draw different body parts while learning about real life medical illustrators! Click here for Spanish.

This resource was originally created for families at home but is easy to adapt to the classroom using either the pdf instructions or videos below.

Thank you to Kate Galloway for providing the “how-to-draw” illustrations and instructions for this lesson, and to Tess Buckley and Li Yao for providing examples of their work!

HOW-TO-DRAW and MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION VIDEO LESSONS from our collaborators CREATE AT UC SAN DIEGO are at the following links:
Lungs - English Lungs - Spanish Heart - English Heart - Spanish Stomach - English Stomach Spanish