The Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration
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This encyclopedia of scientific illustrations is an indispensable text for the novice as well as professional illustrators and scientists. Covering tools, materials, and rendering techniques, with over six hundred outstanding examples shown, this book enables scientific illustrators to understand the complex nature of their subjects and depict them appropriately.
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Elaine R. S. Hodges is a scientific illustrator in the Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. She studied art at Pratt Institute and American University and majored in entomology at the University of Maryland. An illustrator and painter since 1956, Mrs. Hodges entered the field of scientific illustration at the Smithsonian in 1965. She helped found the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, serving as its first Newsletter editor and later as vice-president and president. Mrs. Hodges has also lectured, taught, and written extensively on the field.
