Working as a Medical Illustrator Online Course (2024)

Knowing your production pipeline will give you the confidence in explaining your process to your clients or managers. It also reduces the risk of scope creep, multiple change requests, and helps you to deliver work on time and to budget. Present yourself as a professional medical illustrator in the field by streamlining your production.

Learn about the common tools that professional medical illustrators use and how they use them so that you can implement that into your streamlined process.n.

We explain the theory on how to manage your productions but we'll also show you how we implement them into our 4 example case studies—giving you a deeper understanding of how this pipeline can be adjusted for various projects.

We'll share our process with you and then show you how we implement them into our 4 example case studies.

"As a young professional, I believe [this course] provides essential information on how to properly organize your workflow and communication with the client. The LMA team sets a high professional bar for themselves and encourages young professionals to have higher standards of work, which is a great achievement of this course. My working process improved a lot since I started to implement the advice given in this course on how to work more efficiently with a client. My filing system starts to look much better and it is easier to navigate through and between the projects now. It is easy to follow and interesting to watch. Every video lesson is supported by text material and even templates, that you can use in your communication with clients. I would definitely recommend this course for medical illustrators who have just started their professional careers as well as for illustrators with experience who want to have a better work system, provide better research for the client and save up some time by establishing a good structure of feedback loop. It was a pleasure to take this course. Thank you LMA team! "- Eva Klinkenberg, Visual Communication Artist, Medical and Scientific Illustrator

1. 1. Welcome to the course!

   2. Course Navigation and Exercise Files

   3. What is medical illustration? FREE PREVIEW
   4. What kind of work does a medical illustrator do? FREE PREVIEW
   5. Research is important in our visuals FREE PREVIEW

   6. The medical illustration production pipeline

   7. What is a creative brief?

   8. Planning and organising your projects

   9. Tools of the trade

2. 1. Intro to this section - Research and concept sketches

   2. How to research for an assignment

   3. The medical illustration formula

   4. Creating concept sketches

   5. How to prepare your content for delivery

3. 1. Intro to this section FREE PREVIEW

   2. Gathering feedback notes

   3. Gathering references to help you create your illustration

   4. Tight sketches

   5. How to structure your illustration files

   6. How to check your work

4. 1. Intro to this section FREE PREVIEW

   2. Gathering final feedback notes from your client

   3. Final illustration production

   4. Preparing your files for final delivery

   5. NEXT CHAPTER RELEASED 7TH APRIL 2022

5. 1. Case Study 1: Illustration for video

   2. Mock brief 1: Illustration for video

   3. Case Study 2: Illustration for consumer science magazine

   4. Mock brief 2 - Consumer science magazine

   5. Case Study 3: Illustration for website

   6. Mock brief 3: Website article inline image

   7. Case Study 4: Illustration for pharmaceutical infographic

   8. Mock brief 4: Pharmaceutical Infographic

   9. Course feedback

Emily Holden and Annie Campbell are two medical illustration directors who have been working in the field for over 10 years. Together they spearhead their creative animation studio, Now Medical Studios, and work with a talented team of medical illustrators, designers, and animators. As founders of the Learn Medical Art channel, their passion is helping people step into the world of medical illustration as well as teach any tips they have learned along their creative journey.

Meet Juman Hamza, Angela Douglass, Angela Yeung, and Susie Brighouse. Four super-talented medical illustrators with a multidisciplinary set of skills that have contributed greatly to the creation of this course. Each of them hold a Master's degree in medical illustration and have been working for multiple studios and agencies since graduation. Currently, they work as full-time artists at Now Medical Studios, servicing clients from the medical and pharmaceutical industries.