Medical Illustrations of the Moving Body
The human musculoskeletal system is comprised of our bones, muscles, cartilage, tendons, and joints, and works with our nervous system to give us the ability to move. The Pocket Anatomy of the Moving Body is a compact book which aims to combine full colour illustrations of the structures of the body with succinct but informative explanatory text to build a clear picture of the science behind human movement.
Beginning with an overview of the structures of the musculoskeletal and neurological systems, the book then explains the biomechanics of movement. The main section of the book looks in detail at the anatomy at work in different body movements, joint by joint, illustrating the anatomical structures and explaining how they work together to produce different movements. Feature spreads analyse specific examples, such as the tennis serve, sprint start, and kicking a ball.
Project Brief from Publishers
Commissioned by Quarto publishing Medical-artist.com were tasked with illustrating over 100 illustrations for this new book and at the same its accompanying title called the Pocket Anatomy & Physiology. The brief was to complete the medical illustrations not only as anatomically accurate but in a realism style to show the detail within each anatomy illustration. The medical illustrations were to accompany the text in the book with the aim to illuminate any of the complex medical content, to make it more engaging for the reader and of course illustrations naturally bring any book to life.
Our first task was to take the brief and create pencil drawings of the anatomy on order for them to be approved by the contributing author Kenneth Ashwell. We responded to any edits to the pencil drafts and used the same sketches as the basis for the colour illustrations. We used a combination of working in the digital medium and some in watercolour.
