I can help with many different types of illustrations. Which type you need probably depends on what kind of project you need illustrations for – and what styles you like.In general, I offer four different types of illustrations (that all can be rendered out in the exact format and resolution, you need):
- Vector graphics
- 3D-renders
- Drawings
- GIFs – animated images
Vector graphics
Vector-graphics is a type of illustration that gives very a very ‘smooth’ and clean look. Below is an example of an illustration that I have made for the Lundbeck foundation (for their online collection of illustrations and slides about neuroscience called “Neurotorium”).
3D renders
3D renders can be made with either high or low photo-realism. High photorealism can be used for situations that are difficult or impossible to take a photo of, but where a photo would have been appropriate, like for instance the solar system or the surface of Venus (below).
Outdoor scenes can be rendered with special background images and 3D-objects to look very close to reality, like these images of a dragonfly during metamorphosis.
Laboratory equipment and procedures can also be rendered out with quite a lot of photo-realism, like these lab-ware images below:
Whereas in other situations, you don’t really want to show reality, but instead something you would not be able to take a photo of. For instance a human being with visible organs inside. This could be used to show the effects of e.g. medicine or toxins on different organs in the body:
Again, in other sitations, you don’t want to show reality. But on the other hand, you want to give it a look that still in a way resembles reality. In these images in different styles, the viewer is given a sensation of being inside the brain.
Moving more and more away from the photorealistic look – these images (of a corona-virus particle and of a bacteriophage) is like a hybrid between photo-realism and textbook model. The models have been made semi-transparent in order to show the genetic material inside.
Below are more examples of semi-realistic/semi-artistic images/renders.
And here, these images of molecular biology (DNA and a ribosome in action), are even more close to textbook images, where the artistic feel is more important that photo-realism.
The same goes for this molecular model, which is rendered out to show its secondary (alpha-helices and beta-strands) and tertiary structure (folding). The model of the molecule is correct, but the style it is represended in is more artistic.
Hand-drawn illustrations
I also offer hand-drawn illustrations – either drawn on a graphic tablet in a computer program – like the ones below.
GIF animations
GIFs are animated images. Thus, they are short animations in the image format GIF and can be used to create motion places where videos cannot be inserted.
