Animal Subjects
Illustrations categorized here are animal related illustrations created in realistic style. This type of the traditional science illustration requires a rigorous accuracy in details.
Most of illustrations that I produced here took much time in research before drawing. It usually started from physically studying the specimens at a museum or a university.
Japanese Snail-eating Beetles
August 2024
Those snail-eating beetles were illustrated for Associate Professor Junji Konuma of Toho University and his research team. They discovered that the same gene involved in shaping the human head also determines the head shape of Carabus maiyamicus, a species of snail-eating ground beetle in Japan. The illustration was used for their press release at Toho University
Owstonia Fish
August 2016
Those fish illustrations were created for Dr. Johnson at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. The study was published in November 2016 at Zootaxa.
Filikomys family
November 2020
Filikomys primaevus is a small mammal lived about 75.5 million years ago in North America. Line drawings of fossils and reconstructed illustrations of Filikomys were used for the paper and the press release. Later, those figures were used for The Dinosaur Expo 2023 in Japan.
Talpanas lippa
July 2016
Talpanas lippa is an extinct species of duck, so called "mole duck" discovered in Hawaii. This illustration plate was created for Dr. James at the Smithsonian Institution Natural Museum of Natural History. This was used for North American Ornithological Conference and other conferences.
Dominican New Species
March 2016
Those beetle illustrations were used for the Project of Beetle Taxonomy and Systematics Supporting U.S. Agriculture, Arboriculture and Biological Control, Systematic Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture and Smithsonian Institution.
The research paper was later published in the Journal of Insect Biodiversity in 2020.
Adélie Penguin and Gentoo Penguin
November 2015
This illustration plate is to show a physical difference between Adélie penguin and Gentoo penguin with a comparison with a human. It was used for the Living Bird magazine published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Alphadon, Cimexomys and Didelphodon
January 2019
Those three reconstructed mammals are going to used as permanent exhibition graphics in the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture which will reopen in October 2019. See UW news.