Shadowness - KatSaw

Recovery

Wed, 29 May 2013 15:27:10 -0400

Part of the Surgical Saints series for the Anatomy for Life charity auction. Recovery holds out her healing hands.

Surgery

Wed, 29 May 2013 15:27:07 -0400

Part of the Surgical Saints series for the Anatomy for Life charity auction. Surgery hides her bloody fingers..

Diagnosis

Wed, 29 May 2013 15:27:05 -0400

Part of the Surgical Saints series for the Anatomy for Life charity auction. Diagnosis offers a hand in blessing for the afflicted.

Excision

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:18:06 -0400

This was meant to be a mere diagram illustrating some concepts we're encountering in the teaching course I'm doing. We were just supposed to do a mind map, or a pictorial representation of the importance of said concepts with relation to each other. I did this and labelled the relative organs with the relevant concepts, with their respective sizes illustrating their importance. [I think it's also clear how I feel about the course itself]

Profane Nude

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:49:53 -0500

Tried to create a obscene nude. She has bodyhair, a giant face-tumour, some herpes blisters, engorged breasts and a missing arm. Yet somehow I don't think she's nasty enough.

Old Lady

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:40:08 -0500

Part of a presentation I'm doing on the female nude and representations of women in general.

Fox Girl

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:09:33 -0500

A gift for my dance instructor, whose lovely red hair and habit of curling her hands into paws makes me think of a fox.

Puberty

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:56:25 -0500

The Little Books of Growing Up: Puberty. This book deals with the changes that occur during adolescence. These are divided into five chapters: Adrenarche — hormones begin to sway the body; developing androgenic hair, sweat glands, acne Gonadarche — growth of sex organs (ovaries, testicles) Thelarche — breast development in females Pubarche — growth of puibc hair Menarche — first menses Spermarche — development of sperm Not all images/explanatory text is shown here; of course, but you get the idea. The drawings were done in ballpoint pen inside a 10.5 x 6.5cm Moleskine sketchbook. More on the tumblr thang.

Childhood

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:18:36 -0500

The Little Books of Growing Up: Childhood. This book deals with the changes that happen in the body during childhood; such as the fusing of bones (children are born with over 270 bones while adults only have 230), changes of proportion to facilitate balance, the growth of permanent teeth, etc. The drawings and text (not pictured) were all done in a 10.5 x 6.5cm Moleskine sketchbook, so it was a fairly small area to work with. More pictures on the tumblr.

necrophagous

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:07:01 -0500

For this piece I tracked the development of a maggot, from the fly laying the egg to the maggot forming a pupa and emerging from it as a fly itself. The book got eaten away by said maggot more and more as it went along; and also began to show stains of decay. I buried it in a shallow grave for a week to make it more authentic. More pictures here.