Hi Diana,

I also don´t have a real example, but one of the things I see over here a
lot is illustrators copying illustrations from other illustrators without
looking into it themselves. And thus copying mistakes also. And a few years
back I saw an illustrator advertising himself as medical illustrator with a
portfolio of drawings of medical plastic models.. and where you really could
see that he didn´t understand what he was drawing.

Mieke


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Onderwerp: [SCIART] illustration mistakes

Dear All,

I'm working on a presentation (to be given this friday) where I want to
highlight the importance of being well science informed to do a science
illustration, so I am trying to gather examples of illustrations with
mistakes; not necessarily mistakes that are obvious to anyone but for
example images that I could say "this bird would never fly because it's
missing feathers", "it's impossible the ankle would bend that way", "this
dinosaur would never have a bump there", "the leaves in that species are
arranged in a spiral and not bilaterally", "that molecule doesn't exist",
etc.

I wonder if you know some of such examples (I'm reachable on or off list). I
have a couple of images already but would love to make them as diverse and
numerous as possible. The presentation will be mostly for an art background
audience and I want to make a very convincing point.
Thank you so much,
Diana

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