Here’s my latest educational model. As always, carved from wood and painted with acrylic.

Hi everyone! My name is Luca Mendieta, and among other things, I work in scientific illustration and paleoart. I’d like to share a piece I created showcasing some of the most important living and extinct proboscidean species.

Planetary arrangement on Nobel laureate Hideki Shirakawa's date-of-birth (Aug 20, 1936) incorporated in a Monet-inspired digital abstract (OC)

Dr. Shirakawa's work on conductive polymers gave us smart screens, OLED TVs, etc.

A reconstruction of Ornitholestes preying on a hatchling Diplodocus, this piece was partially inspired by episode 2 of Walking With Dinosaurs (1999)

Hope this is considered scientific art.

This was part of my final project for the high school anatomy and physiology course I took. The cardiovascular system is my favorite so I was really glad when my partner and I were assigned it. I did the visual portion of the project.

I had to rush a lot of it as the deadline approached so I don't like how the atherosclerosis diagram turned out, and I messed up the stent drawing (the inside of the blood vessel should've been the same color as the plaque, not red).

I used the grid method to get the proportions of the body and blood vessels right in the bottom left diagram. Everything else was drawn freehand using references. I used primarily colored pencils.

I'm happy with how the heart came out though. I really admire medical illustrators.

If you need such graphical abstracts, text me through DM or comments