Task 3
https://creators.vice.com/en_uk/article/jpvva4/why-science-illustration-still-needs-a-human-touch
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/httpblogsscientificamericancomsymbiartic201107125-reasons-your-camera-wone28099t-steal-my-job/
'The photographs are just the tip of the iceberg for what can be communicated visually.'
'Illustrators can ignore color variations and minor cracks and complete missing sections based on other specimens; essentially, we act as editors, pruning extraneous visual information.'
http://vividbiology.com/visual-identity-in-science-illustration/
'If that information is not necessary, or does not signify something important, it is a distraction from the information that does. Do not add extra colours or lines unless they are absolutely necessary to understand the information correctly.'
'Science illustration agencies often make no effort to place contrasting styles next to each other, and sometimes do not even show images, listing only a directory of names and addresses, as if finding a science illustrators were as interchangeable as plumbers or cleaners.'
https://theconversation.com/what-makes-a-good-scientific-illustration-10037
Key points
Collaboration between scientist and illustrator
Scientific illustration is still a vital tool in explaining scientific concepts
Illustration more beneficial than photography in certain areas of science
Highlighting key parts of an object/structure
Traditional drawings skills still foundation of all illustration despite more digital tools (Illustrators have more varied toolkit)
Be technically accurate/ Be interesting/ Simplify
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