Working as a medical illustrator Information

A course created for medical illustrators by professional medical illustrators, actively working in the field.

Production Pipelines & Project Planning

Organization tips and tools

Knowing your production pipeline will give you the confidence in explaining your process to your clients or managers. It also reduces the risk of scope creep, multiple change requests, and helps you to deliver work on time and to budget. Present yourself as a professional medical illustrator in the field by streamlining your production.

Tips & techniques

Common tools and workflows for a medical illustrator

Learn about the common tools that professional medical illustrators use and how they use them so that you can implement that into your streamlined process.n.

Put theory into practice

See how we work

We explain the theory on how to manage your productions but we’ll also show you how we implement them into our 4 example case studies—giving you a deeper understanding of how this pipeline can be adjusted for various projects.

What You’ll Learn In Working as a medical illustrator?

Production phases, creative brief, and research

• Welcome to the course!
• Course Navigation and Exercise Files
• What is medical illustration?
• What kind of work does a medical illustrator do?
• Research is important in our visuals
• The medical illustration production pipeline
• What is a creative brief?
• Planning and organising your projects
• Tools of the trade

Phase 1 – Research, concept sketches, client reviews

• Intro to this section – Research and concept sketches
• How to research for an assignment
• The medical illustration formula
• Creating concept sketches
• How to prepare your content for delivery

Phase 2 – Implementing feedback, refining your illustration

• Intro to this section
• Gathering feedback notes
• Gathering references to help you create your illustration
• Tight sketches
• How to structure your illustration files
• How to check your work

Phase 3 – Final touches and delivery

• Intro to this section
• Gathering final feedback notes from your client
• Final illustration production
• Preparing your files for final delivery
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Case studies, Downloads, mock briefs, & feedback

• Case Study 1: Illustration for video
• Mock brief 1: Illustration for video
• Case Study 2: Illustration for consumer science magazine
• Mock brief 2 – Consumer science magazine
• Case Study 3: Illustration for website
• Mock brief 3: Website article inline image
• Case Study 4: Illustration for pharmaceutical infographic
• Mock brief 4: Pharmaceutical Infographic
• Course feedback

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