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.
Magnuviator ovimonsensis
January 2017
Magnuviator ovimonsensis is the oldest found iguanian in the America. This illustration was used for a blog of Scientific American and a press release of University of Washington.
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.
Didelphodon vorax
December 2016
Didelphodon vorax is one of the largest North American Late Cretaceous mammals so far discovered. This illustration was used for a press release of the Burke Museum and of the University of Washington.
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.
Reconstruction of
12 Human-related species
2013 - 2015
This project is to create visual reconstruction for 10 extinct hominin species and 2 extant species, approved as a Master project for the Anthropology Department, University of Washington.
