A fun botanical drawing to pass the time after work while I wait for my summer course to begin.

I am an artist/researcher from Rotterdam. I am writing my MA thesis about how AI-generated images have been affecting artists and designers all over the world. I am looking for more people to bring awareness to this topic in academia. To contribute to this important research, I'd be grateful if you could fill out my 10-minute survey and share it with any other artists who want to share their opinions.

Survey link: https://erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aVHPfxNJRZt4ihw

Cheers✨

i've been recently getting into science illustration and was wondering what the best platforms are to advertise yourself to get freelance work? it seems like fiverr and upwork are popular but i wanted to hear your opinions on if there are any pros/cons to being on certain platforms.

Looking for some simple but colorful CFD illustrations of the Bernoulli effect.

I really enjoy creating technical graphics, but it takes me a long time because I'm not very good at it yet. So far I've just been bumbling around and doing a lot of googling, but I'd really like a bit more guided education about how make these graphics. The image is an example of the sort of thing I'm talking about, a lot like explanatory graphics found in textbooks:

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I'd like to get better at this, but I'm not sure what the right sort of course would be. Scientific Illustration? Data Visualization? Graphic Design? It seems like a crossover between all of those, and I'm having a hard time finding a course that fits. I'm pretty good at self-directed learning, so I'm looking for an online course or series of tutorials that I can convince my employer would be useful.

Any ideas?

I was wondering about the career prospect of the master's program at Zuyd in Netherlands. If any of you have attended the program before, were you and your classmates able to find jobs right after graduation? Does the program connect students with prospective employers or clients? How is the demand for scientific illustrators in Europe compared to North America?

I've looked online and the only alumni experience I've found is a company called Biotic Artlab which three graduates started. which leads me to believe maybe people generally start their own company or become freelance after graduating?

What are your experiences?

Hey! I'm in my undergrad and looking to take up scientific illustration as a hobby, specifically more environmental/biological illustration. I'm curious how y'all got into it and what online resources you've found most useful! Lemme know :)

Hi everyone!

I'm doing my PhD in robotics and as you can imagine it involves is a good amount of scientific illustration. I realize that in order to get descent results, especially with 3D graphics, a fair amount of work is required which is not exactly optimal as I would like to focus in the core science of the thing.

Any online services where I could outsource this task? I imagine sending my quick sketches a description and data and receive a nice presentable drawing.

Any help would be appreciated.

Best,

I’m Bárbara and I’m from Portugal. I’m doing a UX design school project about scientific illustration. I created a survey to help me with my research, and I need the maximum number of people working or training to work in this field. I’m also studying scientific illustration (on the side) and I'm curious to know what are your experiences in this field, your struggles, and your work process. Do you think you could fill out my survey (takes 5 minutes and it's anonymous), it would help me a lot!

Also, please, share it with other people you might know in this field. Thank you so much :) Here's the link to my survey: https://forms.gle/it2TkmPH3XiKNWaT8

I have done a few courses from IllustraCiencia (spanish online science illustration course).

I want to keep doing them, but they are a bit pricey, so i was thinking of gathering some money first so that i can enroll on several at the same time.

But in the mean while wanted to keep practicing, but can't really find many science illustration courses /tutorials on YouTube.

Some help would be appreciated. Also any critiques! Thank you!

Some of my works

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ANARI significantly simplifies the development of applications in domains such as scientific visualization by providing high-level functionality to build an in-memory scene representation to be rendered without the need for low-level graphics code and enabling the use of any 3D rendering engine that supports the ANARI API. The ANARI 1.0 specification has been openly developed and incorporates significant community feedback, including compatibility with glTF™ Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) materials. ANARI has already been widely integrated into scientific visualization applications and is expected to be used by diverse applications needing portable access to multiple rendering engines delivering sophisticated 3D functionality such as ray tracing and global illumination.

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I'm creating a scientific illustration to depict the natural succession of plant communities over time. This is nowhere near finished, still have to add some wildlife, and I am struggling to unite the composition. My mind goes to adding soil texture, shadows, and perhaps the lighting is coming from multiple directions? (My training for Illustrator comes from YouTube videos, but I have access to Linkdin Learning and wondering if taking a course from the ground up would be best to learn fundamentals...)

Any advice or tutorial links on how to better blend the assets into the landscape would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Hi! I'm a graphic design student and I was previously studying biology, but gave up on that degree because I thought I'd be happier in a more artistic field. I didn't know about scientific illustration and didn't found out about it until I was at my second year into the graphic design degree. Now I feel frustrated because I could have done it while I was still in biology, and also worried because I don't know the odds of getting a job in the field coming from a graphic design background.