DRAWING SPECIMENS

1. Use a good quality, sharp HB pencil.

2. Use plain paper.
3. Consider the size of what you want to draw in relation to the size of your paper.
Make sure the drawing, along with the labels and annotations (notes added to
labels) will fit comfortably on the page.
4. Make large, clear line drawings. Do not use ink or coloured pencils.
5. Make single pencil lines without sketching or shading.
6. Keep your drawing simple by providing only an outline of all the basic structures.
7. Draw accurately what you can see. Never draw anything you cannot see, even if
you think it ought to be there.
8. Draw individual parts in strict proportion to each other.
9. Give your drawing a suitable title which clearly indicates what it shows
10. Fully label all drawings and annotations if appropriate.
11. Do not label too close to the drawing, and never label on the actual drawing.
12. Do not cross label lines and, if possible, arrange labels vertically, one beneath the
other.

The following additional points apply specifically to microscope

drawings.
13. State the section you have drawn (i.e. LS or TS etc. - this is stated on prepared
slides).
14. State the magnification, scale or actual size of each specimen.
15. With microscope drawings, you should make two separate ones:
(a) a low-power map indicating the main regions of each cell type, but without
drawing individual cells.
(b) a high-power drawing of a section or wedge passing through all the major cell
areas. Draw a few cells of each type and, in at least one cell, include cellular
detail (if you can see it) e.g. nucleus, cytoplasm, storage grains.