The Digital Biomedical Illustration Handbook

This book is great! It's a how-to-draw-medical-illustrations-electronically book. I've always wondered just how to get started, and this book explains it all from sketches to saving the final file. And the author does it in a clear step-by-step easy reading style with lots of color pictures and screen shots. Each chapter takes you through color schemes and brush stroke settings. It even provides a CD with some trial programs so you can follow along with the also included tutorials. If you already have artistic drawing skills (not like Da Vinci, but know the basics), have some Photoshop navigational ability, have anatomy knowledge (or can look it up on the web), and have an electronic drawing tablet, then you've got to have this book. It doesn't just show you a bunch of pretty final gallery masterpieces of medical illustrations, it shows you how to go about them--how to achieve the effects that make a biomedical illustration attractive and, most importantly, educational. The author gives you his secrets. The chapters cover not one style, but several. I can honestly say, if you're only going to buy one book on this subject, then get this one. I'm very glad I did, and I am amazing myself at what I can do because I followed the steps in the book.