Medical Illustrator | Cover Art for The Journal of Infectious Diseases

This project starts my journey into being a Medical Illustrator, and I'm excited for where the type of projects this is going to be adding to my creative pipeline. Creating this cover art for The Journal of Infectious Diseases was a really neat process. 

The agency I'm working with sent me several reference images, as well as previous covers of the journal as a jumping off point. The reference images included the various kinds of bacteria and viruses they wanted included, as well as an example of what the people in the image would be doing. They wanted a female doctor and patient and for the doctor to be doing the test swab in the illustration. 

I created my initial sketch with a few different variations and they narrowed the sketch down to this final version (see below) to go onto the next round.

They had also sent me an image I illustrated for the Springfield Daily Citizen's series on Domestic Violence - they like the style I did that illustration in and wanted this illustration in that similar style. Since I like to experiment and create in multiple styles of illustration, it's always helpful to know which the client wants. 

For the fully fleshed out, in color version I also created several with slight variations for them to choose from. After just one small round of revisions, this is the final version that was approved for publication.

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