Dr YanTing Choong 2019

Lesson Title: Scientific Illustrations

Learning Objectives:
 Understand the drawing styles in biology
 Understand how to label diagrams appropriately
 Understand the standard rules of scientific illustration
 Ability to pay attention to detail and recreate it on paper.

Importance of scientific illustration

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Scientific illustration guidelines

When doing scientific drawings, use the following checklist to make sure your drawings have all the required
components:

• Two drawings per page

• Drawing title

• Magnification

• Labels and annotations

• Scale bar

• No shading, only stippling (dotting)

• No sketchy lines, only single lines

• All scientific names underlined

• All drawing neat and clean

Dr YanTing Choong 2019

Your Task: Draw to Scale

Try drawing this life sized, flatworm at a scale of 2 (twice as big).