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The following work, unless otherwise noted, is from the Biomedical Illustration courses that I teach at Cal State Long Beach, ART 374A and 374B.
This work has been created over the past 12 years, in various media, both from students in the Biomedical Illustration Certificate program, as well as from many students from the Illustration, Animation, and Studio Art areas at Long Beach State.
The Biomedical Illustration Program, now known as the Biomedical Illustration Prep Certificate,  is an interdisciplinary program sponsored by the Art and Biological Sciences departments. Special permission is not required for a student to pursue the Certificate in Biomedical Art, however it is only available to students who are presently enrolled in a degree program in the biological sciences or in art at CSULB. Please access the current list of required courses for this certificate in the Online 2019/20 College Catalog.

Questions on this program may be addressed to: Robin Richesson, School of Art, robin.richesson@csulb.edu (562) 985-9068 or Kelly Young, Department of Biological Sciences, kelly.young@ csulb.edu (562) 985-4859, or to Jim Dowdalls, the instructor, at jdowdalls@verizon.net or at jim.dowdalls@csulb.edu

My apologies if your work is not represented here, or is misrepresented by a misspelling or mistaken identity.

The following pages contain a cross-section of projects created in the two courses that I currently teach at Cal State Long Beach, Biomedical Rendering and 
Biomedical Illustration. Jim Dowdalls, Instructor


  Skulls and Skeletons
This project involves drawing subject matter from life, and rendering it in prismacolor pencils, usually in black and white, but occasionally with the addition of several other neutral colored pencils on tonal Canson paper.
                                   Approximately 24 hours from start to finish.

Abby Oshiro 

Dominique Roberts

Emily Yip

Eric Yilliqi

Jordan Lance

Kristofer Schweitzer

Lilit Brigoryants

Rachel Stanley

Sam Austin

Samantha Gottfredson

 Rea Kim

           
                                                                            Elijah Henry
                        
                                                
                                                                           Kaho Akiya

                                            
                                                                      Rita Hernandez

                                                  
                                                                      Samantha Kobel

                                          
                                                                       Susie Hammons

                                                
                                                                   Tatiana Sanchez