Anatomy

The anatomy section of the Magazine is an area I have not really touched on yet. I wanted to use this opportunity to show my illustrative skills and draw my own bionic bodies that can be contrasted with the photographs. Also I could edit them into the photographs to make the models look like they are developing into the ‘HUMANOID’. 

It was suggested I should take combining my illustrative skills and photographic skills that I developed in my last project further as it was one of the most successful elements. I considered referring to the grey's anatomy book to push my illustrations further and make them more detailed. These illustrations were very effective as I was incorporating ligaments and muscle with mechanical elements such as constructing the spine with bolts along it. 

(grey's anatomy)

However once I put these illustrations in the layout they stood out because they were the only drawn feature so I decided to try to make them look as if they were x-ray images by editing and inverting them. This was very successful however they still lacked depth so I researched body printing by the artist David Hammons. 

(David Hammons)

This was an interesting avenue to look at however I did not want to create my own so I considered putting a background to each photograph so they were not hovering in the middle of blank page, this worked very well and gave the images the depth I wanted and helped integrate them in the layout. I also combined some of the illustrations with the models to make them look even more robotic, some were more successful then others. I have placed the most successful ones in the magazine.