In this podcast I report on my experience attending the Anatomy Connected 2024 conference in Toronto Canada. If you weren’t able to attend this event, I hope I can give you a sense of the subjects covered and types of presentations. Show notes for this episode will be posted on TVASurg, in thanks for sponsoring me to attend this event: https://pie.med.utoronto.ca/TVASurg/anatomy-connected-2024 ..read more

In this interview I'm speaking with Anthony Baker, a Board-Certified medical illustrator in Columbus, Ohio. Since 2008, he has directed The Ohio State University’s Medical Visuals team, creating visuals for Ohio State health sciences faculty, physicians and researchers. View the show notes at: https://www.pkvisualization.com/post/medical-illustration-podcast-anthony-baker-interview ..read more

Let’s get back into it! I’m happy to announce a new season of the medical illustration podcast! In this solo episode I’ll be giving some updates about news in the field. You can check out the show notes, with mentioned links, here: https://www.pkvisualization.com/post/medical-illustration-podcast-season-2 ..read more

It's March 31st 2023, and we are still in Year Zero of AI tools being made available to the masses. These are wild times. I made an episode at the end of last year about AI art that I wanted to follow up on. So here's some recent updates and some reflections on the era of AI. Show notes here: https://www.pkvisualization.com/post/ai-tools ..read more

For this episode of the Medical Illustration Podcast I’m going to give a virtual tour of my personal library of art books for figure drawing. Learning to draw the human figure well is a challenging task, but one every medical illustrator must be familiar with. Here's a collection of my favorite references for figure drawing, check out my site page for links: https://www.pkvisualization.com/post/medical-illustration-podcast-figure-drawing-february ..read more

This is a podcast dedicated to the memory of legendary medical illustrator Steve Harrison (1947–2023) Show notes: https://www.pkvisualization.com/post/in-memory-of-steve-harrison ..read more

In this final episode for 2022 of the Medical Illustration podcast, I share some announcements and dive into the topic of AI art and its affects on the medical illustration field. Show notes can be found here: https://www.pkvisualization.com/post/final-podcast-for-2022-ai-vs-art ..read more

Andrew Swift is well-known throughout the profession as a prolific medical illustrator. After graduating from the Georgia program in 1999, he went on to be an Associate Professor there for the next decade and helped to train a generation of highly skilled medical illustrators. He’s been an active member of the Association of Medical Illustrators and presents regularly at the annual meetings. Andrew is well-grounded in traditional art techniques and continues to draw almost every day. He’s worked extensively in ZBrush and corresponds regularly with their development team, helping that software ..read more

This is a quick episode to talk about some of the online resources available for learning the fundamentals of medical illustration. Check out the show notes at https://www.pkvisualization.com/post/learning-medical-illustration-online ..read more

In this episode I talk about variations on the theme of ownership–how it relates to originality, authenticity, professionalism, and the very literal ownership of intellectual property. All important topics for the professional medical illustrator. You can find the show notes and links at http://PKVisualization.com ..read more