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Technical illustrator Cody Walker offers up a new tutorial, this time for creating exploded isometrics in Adobe Illustrator.

Revisit our previous link to his advanced isometric illustrations for a look at all his tutorials.

Toronto-based technical illustrator Cody Walker has been authoring a series of tutorials on creating technical illustrations using Adobe Illustrator. The latest how-to is for Advanced Isometric Illustrations.

Previous tutorials also include Drawing in Perspective and Working with Orthographic Projections and Basic Isometrics.

Science-Art.com is a gallery/portfolio site for scientific illustration. You’ll find diagrams, science, nature and medical images and the illustrators who create them. Particularly note-worthy are these wonderful micro-community cubes by Frank Ippolito depicting the microcosm of biodiversity beneath our feet.

We don’t post a lot of technical or scientific illustration here on Drawn!, so this is a welcome change: Carl Buell is a paleo-wildlife artist. His blog is more than just a showcase for his work, as this mastadon Columbian Mammoth illustrates — he’s glad to share his process. I’m constantly amazed that people can paint using Photoshop. For more from “Olduvai George”, here’s an interview.

You’re looking at an image of neurotransmitters at a synapse by medical illustrator Graham Johnson. It was the winner of the 2005 Science Magazine and NSF Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge and is part of the best science illustration of 2005. Eva at Eastern Blot (a great blog about all the fun parts of science) has many more links about scientific illustration, including this story about careers in science illustration.

This is site is great: featuring technical cutaway drawings of submarines, ships, aircraft and arms.

In the Second World War people at home with loved ones spread far away around the world with the forces were fed a diet, often government backed, of “how it works” or “how we will win” technical information leaflets. Very often these would have contained superb cut away and sectioned diagrams, showing the “insides” or as was said at the time “the works!” of the machines that were winning the war for us!

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