It's midterm critique week which means drafts everywhere! Here are my final sketches for medical-legal class. I've been working on a medical malpractice case. The physician is accused of negligence for his allegedly premature decision to perform a forceps delivery, which may have led to a skull fracture and cerebral palsy. The position of the fetus' head during labour is highly relevant to this case. However, the maternal-fetal relationships present serious challenges to understanding and viewers not familiar with anatomy can get easily disoriented. My solution: contextualize everything by relating the anatomy of the fetal head, maternal pelvis, and maternal body to situate the viewer. I did these illustrations with the defendant (physician) in mind, so I wanted everything to look objective and to conform to medical conventions (e.g. obstetrical view).
Illustration board 1:
Illustration board 2:
Maternal-fetal relationships during labour Adobe Photoshop CS4, illustration boards 4x3' each
Next steps: redo the lines in pencil and fully render everything...
5 comments:
This is really cool stuff you're doing. If I ever need to defend one of our numerous soon-to-be-doctor friends, maybe I'll need your services. :P
Is this for an actual case? Or just a practice scenario?
sooo pretty :)
@ Lee: Haha hopefully you won't need to! But of course if you do, I'd be happy to oblige! 8D
This is an actual case from the 1980s our prof picked out.
@ Nicole: Thanks! (though that isn't the most aesthetically pleasing orientation haha :P)
Ah, so THIS is why u needed that lithotomy reference pic eh? XD; Amazing job as usual =P
@ Minyan: HAHA!!! Yes, exactly. I do apologize for soiling your eyes. D:
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