http://marcomorenoart.com/home-pedro daily 1.0 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/fdf3f078-b904-44b0-bd85-dedd32dd980a/Thyroidectomy_Patient_Ed_website.jpg Home - Surgical Illustration Illustrations of surgical procedures and outcomes for a patient, physician, or academic audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/59c967fb-8818-40ac-9262-dc9b3a31dc1d/Med_Legal_A2.jpg Home - Medical Legal Pieces created for a courtroom audience about specific legal cases involving injuries or malpractice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/17333add-7c48-4a2c-a842-e1799dfd1f1a/MMoreno_Assignment1_Fall2024+2.jpg Home - Editorial & Page Design Journal covers, posters, and figures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/80c2e405-9c94-4a52-872c-c041da5c39e9/IMG_1024+2.jpg Home - Figure Drawing Drawings of the human form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/2c1e15e7-815f-4702-9830-e5994e1c308a/ezgif-6d90aa7368214c.gif Home - 3D Modeling Posters and animations created in Cinema 4D, ZBrush, and Blender, rendered using RedShift. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/10f73d94-9070-48d5-ae26-669a980f9527/ezgif-3eee7842c04327.gif Home - Other Works Personal projects, miscellaneous items, and undergraduate work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/7149a3ba-2388-41bc-bc8c-4c7841c5d8ad/IMG_3870.jpg Home - Sketchbook Miscellaneous excerpts from my sketchbooks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/ddab7b44-bf39-404e-bc71-f4516f8bd8b8/IMG_1867.JPG Home - medical & scientific visuals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dce94549fc2b64d089a33b/1510180121960-9OB62HWQH1HLXWCVWT89/texture-banner.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/a904cdb6-d05b-4c7f-93c1-5b5315675313/IMG_1940.jpg Home http://marcomorenoart.com/bio daily 0.75 2025-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/f560e69f-743e-407b-9604-f6ed563e2257/Headshot_2.jpg Bio http://marcomorenoart.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-03-25 http://marcomorenoart.com/figure-drawing daily 0.75 2025-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/38fe19a6-a89c-4496-9a35-fe66b4ceefbc/IMG_5068.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Study of the Lower Limb, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/f5dc6021-8327-4d50-b376-ddd9b5e41c25/IMG_3622.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Gestures, Charcoal, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/3c33655e-7ad7-4fc1-a670-50d9c659e787/IMG_3440.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Blind Nudes, Charcoal, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/0ece08c3-064b-41f1-98f9-8cf94a2c26c9/IMG_1500.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Study of Clavicle and Breasts, Graphite, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/d146b34b-247a-45c4-ab83-e27ef17a0848/IMG_5167.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Heads 2, Graphite, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/1578018b-5d53-4233-9de6-eb3623dbca07/IMG_5123.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Heads 1, Graphite, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/c9790b23-e84b-4752-830c-5fce0b43c53e/IMG_4991.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Short Poses, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/d02bb285-229c-46c4-80b3-b4f8e641f9d7/IMG_5550.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Study of Alice, Charcoal, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/6abc6698-f652-4542-9f55-f21d5cb7fda4/IMG_1031.JPG Figure Drawing Pregnant Nude, Graphite, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/9f28aef9-c989-43b2-baa4-13e6271d26aa/IMG_3799.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Boxing Injury, Conté crayon, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/2ed635b6-ca2e-4e57-b1cb-4109ff5b7a4e/IMG_4990.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Gestures Interacting, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/cdd8f2ae-4333-4a6d-9f95-762225c178c3/IMG_1501.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Torso Study, Graphite, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/55cb0027-2277-4104-93d2-4538997bd92a/IMG_0792.JPG Figure Drawing Nude with Raised Arm, Charcoal, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/15928ed5-63cb-4eab-903f-a138953a4395/IMG_4994.jpeg Figure Drawing Crouching Nude, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/8d3c1b63-f796-41e6-b5db-a04c8c313fe9/IMG_1377.JPG Figure Drawing Seated Nude, Charcoal, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/2f2ffd82-7538-4548-a7da-3d6d04de4c87/IMG_1024+2.JPG Figure Drawing Seated Nude in Perspective, NuPastel, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/f211df28-cc72-4d6a-a4ba-d1aebb494a8b/IMG_3411.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Study of the Back, Charcoal, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/1a1c9665-3466-4616-a7d9-337a324a9f93/IMG_4839.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Standing Nude, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/00e3e47d-e15f-4119-8a28-99f2320e5589/IMG_1379.JPG Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Seated Nude with Hat, Charcoal, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/20e94d05-f261-4ee4-b745-49b1d133f0e9/He_Shaves_Himself_Now.jpg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Study of Wolf Shaving, Digital, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/648398a3-daf9-4854-9c91-9f7c6e58fb95/Papa.jpg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Papa, Charcoal, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/78918365-c891-4c9b-9b61-ae12df51e9b4/IMG_5071.jpeg Figure Drawing Leg and Foot Studies, Pen, 2024 http://marcomorenoart.com/sketchbook daily 0.75 2025-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/c58c8572-c9f8-4d48-b72f-1bf695ab3de5/IMG_5167.jpeg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Heads 2, Graphite, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/e0459f0d-b014-4c80-9289-f3fa27cd0f26/IMG_4879.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Cadaver Sketch 2, Pen, Colored Pencil, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/a8b6cd7a-1b54-43a4-8bb6-eeb52aae07cb/IMG_4947.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Cadaver Sketch 3, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/530081f0-5418-43c2-bbd8-b4548a2b4725/IMG_4859.jpg Sketchbook Cadaver Sketch 1, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/b904a40d-9cba-4c60-8d3e-06720614ee07/IMG_4943.jpeg Sketchbook Many Angles of the Pelvis, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/faf14f59-3d0e-4b2b-b5a6-5cba20552f17/IMG_5123.jpeg Sketchbook Heads 1, Graphite, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/44a1b512-d524-4466-ad4f-ac3a34c8807d/IMG_4321.jpeg Sketchbook Studies of Young Medical Officer, Graphite, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/55300d07-f123-4e03-841b-154c6093ab4a/IMG_3870.jpg Sketchbook Study of Georgia Aquarium Residents, Graphite, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/5ef95b69-b37e-45ee-872a-c6b0f0bdcb67/IMG_5168+2.jpeg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Heads 3, Graphite, 2024 http://marcomorenoart.com/med-legal daily 0.75 2025-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/6666df36-fe2a-4bbc-8677-cfaa5e43024c/Shoulder+Dystocia+Delivery.jpg Med Legal Shoulder Dystocia Delivery, Digital, 2024 The third and final piece in the shoulder dystocia series, showing the baby being delivered with cyanosis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/b2d05684-fac8-4be9-8444-b02ffb2d002d/MarcoMoreno_BVIS538_SU24_A4.jpg Med Legal Hernia Repair, Digital, 2024 A series of illustrations depicting the steps taken by a surgeon who accidentally perforated a patient’s bowel during a routine hernia repair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/1dcd8978-9624-48a6-93c9-275193ea8726/Shoulder+Dystocia+Presentation.jpg Med Legal Shoulder Dystocia Presentation, Digital, 2024 The initial piece for a court proceeding in which the plaintiff was suing a doctor for his actions during a shoulder dystocia case. The doctor was shown to have done everything according to industry standard, so was not charged with malpractice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/4798a3ba-be2b-42e7-ae96-18bef805bdc8/Shoulder+Dystocia+Maneuvers.jpg Med Legal Shoulder Dystocia Maneuvers, Digital, 2024 The next piece in the shoulder dystocia series, showing the various maneuvers performed by the medical team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/2681943e-2a82-43ce-b4de-4e0e418e47c2/MarcoMoreno_BVIS538_SU24_A4_3.jpg Med Legal - Make it stand out Hernia Revision & Bowel Resection (cont.), Digital, 2024 The final illustration in the series, showing the doctor’s care to checking every inch of the bowel and resecting the affected area before irrigating and closing the surgical wound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/efe02479-0ffd-4c9a-9449-2e9131bc00a1/Med_Legal_A2.jpg Med Legal Compound Fracture, Digital, 2024 This piece was created to show the extent of the bone breakage that may not have been as obvious from the x-ray imaging to a lay courtroom audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/1919a95f-d7ac-4ba5-b2fa-ca225d33996d/IMG_2039.JPG Med Legal Lumbar Spine Osteomyelitis, Digital, 2024 A piece showing the reality of a radiological image, in which the lumbar spine is deeply infected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/f9001f7f-2878-4b55-8558-27a4c097317b/MarcoMoreno_BVIS538_SU24_A4_2.jpg Med Legal - Make it stand out Hernia Revision & Bowel Resection, Digital, 2024 The second in the hernia repair series, showing the revision of the hernia and the location of the bowel perforation. http://marcomorenoart.com/surgical-illustration daily 0.75 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/e9a117e7-af60-4cc6-b340-614e12c8664f/IMG_6646.jpeg Surgical Illustration - Make it stand out OR sketch of double mastectomy (closure), Pen, 2024 A series of procedural sketches of the closure of the double mastectomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/b6448d7c-e637-4120-aa95-9ea2bbb4c18b/Wk._12_HCC.jpg Surgical Illustration Hepatocelular Carcinoma Poster, Procreate, Illustrator, 2024 A poster created for second-year surgical residents informing them of a case study involving a 52-year-old male undergoing a resection of a tumor from his liver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/852bdd03-8775-4865-b3e4-48f270c760a1/IMG_2082.JPG Surgical Illustration Adipose Tissue Study, Procreate, 2024 A study of adipose tissue done digitally from direct observation in the OR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/de53cd3d-a158-4b1a-8c0f-5c77ab590c33/IMG_6645.jpeg Surgical Illustration - Make it stand out OR sketch of double mastectomy, Pen, 2024 A series of procedural sketches of surgeons performing a gender-affirming double mastectomy without nipple grafts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/0df443be-0b74-41a9-b5c7-6d98f0dedf70/IMG_6632.jpeg Surgical Illustration - Make it stand out OR sketch of surgeons, Pen, 2024 Sketch of surgeons in the OR performing a palatoplasty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/5e1910a6-ee9d-4bfd-a8fc-58fec7023bbe/IMG_1679.JPG Surgical Illustration Mucosa of the Stomach & Duodenum in situ, Procreate, Illustrator, 2024 This piece was done digitally using only line; it would appear in a surgical atlas or GI anatomy texbook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/c481796b-806a-49f9-96d3-c7e5cd8e0589/OR_113.jpg Surgical Illustration - Make it stand out OR Surgical Sketches, Procreate, 2025 A series of sketches done in the OR while observing a gender-affirming vaginoplasty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/6e39b434-4ee5-4773-9043-b8aee7b97b6b/Thyroidectomy_Patient_Ed.jpg Surgical Illustration Total Thyroidectomy Patient Education Flyer, Procreate, Illustrator 2025 This piece was created for a patient audience after witnessing a total thyroidectomy in the OR. It distills down the essence of the procedure, and provides a positive outlook for patients that may be worried about recovery or the resolution of their symptoms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/35abaa3a-af00-494a-8fd8-9fe9f77d4f99/MMoreno_SurgicalIllustration_A3.JPG Surgical Illustration - Make it stand out Case Report of an Auto-appendectomy, Procreate, Illustrator, 2025 The story of 27-year-old Dr. Leonid Rogozov— the only doctor stationed in a Soviet Antarctic base in 1961— who diagnosed himself with an acute appendicitis and subsequently removed his own appendix. There are only a few photographs of the procedure, which the drawings all differ from in some way to show the progression of the operation from entirely new angles and points of view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/392df13a-9107-439c-9df6-d9e33a421061/IMG_2202.JPG Surgical Illustration Ruptured Ectopic Pregnancy, Procreate, 2024 A digital painting of a blood clot removal and emergency hemostasis as a result of an ectopic pregnancy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/d13b1f36-ee7a-4824-aa5b-650b34ba6fa4/IMG_2126.JPG Surgical Illustration Laparoscopic Hysterectomy, Procreate, 2024 A digital painting of a still from a surgical video depicting the cauterization and amputation of the uterine tubes during a laparoscopic hysterectomy. http://marcomorenoart.com/3d-modeling-2 daily 0.75 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/0152d7d0-e137-4bc5-b187-b46689a6d640/ezgif-6cbb2c81634da1.gif 3D Modeling Behind the Copper Masks of World War I, Cinema 4D, Adobe Substance Painter, Adobe Substance Designer, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, 2024. This piece was created for a museum audience learning about the first anaplastology created on a large scale as a result of the First World War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/4814074f-98b7-4c25-b729-00d17ec042e4/Exercise_1%3A_High_Poly%2C_Low_Poly.jpg 3D Modeling Optimized Rib Cage, Cinema 4D, 2024 A rib cage modeled in Cinema 4D. First a very high-poly version was sculpted, a normal map created from it, and then baked onto a low poly version, giving it a similar amount of detail with a fraction of polygon and therefore RAM usage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/1b7ab540-6a6c-4e89-b9f0-4f7f025285eb/MMoreno_Modelling3_Spring2025_Exercise1+2.png 3D Modeling - Make it stand out Hands, Zbrush, 2025 A first foray into Zbrush, beginning with sculpting two different hands. One healthy, and one severely frostbitten. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/6c3066ea-2c55-4f7c-9cb0-e470dc9305e2/BVIS560_MorenoM_A3_20250429+2.jpg 3D Modeling - Make it stand out Neratinib as a Binding Agent to HER2, Cinema 4D, Photoshop, Illustrator, 2025 This molecular illustration shows the mechanism of action for neratinib, a new cancer drug designed for metastatic HER2-positive breast cancers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/cc6e8217-d3d4-4753-90cc-2e42416507c5/Ambulance.jpg 3D Modeling Ambulances on the Western Front, Cinema 4D, Adobe Substance Painter, Adobe Substance Designer, Adobe Photoshop, 2024. The second poster in the WWI medicine series created for a museum audience, discussing the use of Model T ambulances on the Western Front. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/8747c394-85fd-4c4e-9448-7017d988d586/Final_Poster.jpg 3D Modeling Behind the Copper Masks of World War I (still), Cinema 4D, Adobe Substance Painter, Adobe Substance Designer, Adobe Photoshop, 2024. A still composited image of the animated poster created for the same audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/52ee709e-0a57-4ab4-be3c-81903050cd23/IMG_2036.JPG 3D Modeling - Make it stand out Optimized Rib Cage (detail), Cinema 4D, 2024 The rib cage showing the high poly and low poly meshes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/a4bb371e-f2a7-4d7c-a54b-a5100f28fae3/IMG_2400.JPG 3D Modeling - Make it stand out Olm, ZBrush, Cinema 4D, Procreate, Illustrator, 2025 This poser is designed for a Slovenian cultural exhibit, highlighting the cultural significance of the olm, a fully-aquatic cave salamander native to the region. All assets were sculpted in ZBrush and materials were added in Cinema 4D. Finally, it was rendered in RedShift and composited in Procreate and Illustrator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/e9e49a9d-13e3-4890-9290-d63a503d48b8/Exercise_3.jpg 3D Modeling - Make it stand out Texture Orbs, Cinema 4D, 2023 A series of spheres in Cinema 4D achieved utilizing only material nodes and lighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/4d4edf40-e16e-4020-ab15-8b9c943f168b/IMG_2278+2.JPG 3D Modeling A Useful Present for Friends at the Front, Cinema 4D, Adobe Substance Painter, Adobe Photoshop, 2025. The third and final installment in the WWI medicine series created for a museum audience, covering drug addiction and commercially available narcotics. http://marcomorenoart.com/editorial-illustration-2 daily 0.75 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/e7c54e56-e2dc-421a-9af5-db0928999e17/Cystic_Fibrosis.jpg Editorial Illustration Cystic Fibrosis, Digital, 2024 A didactic poster designed for a pre-med audience teaching about protein folding and disease presentation in relation to cystic fibrosis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/74854b36-aaab-4897-a255-dec779ceb8cd/BVIS508_MorenoM_RevisedFinal_20250423.jpg Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Physician Education Piece, Procreate, Illustrator, 2025 A physician education piece describing the embryological development and subsequent care of patients with complete and partial androgen insensitivity syndrome. This piece was a part of my research at UIC, and is a result of surveying the intersex population for their opinions on how they would like to be represented in medical illustration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/511e33a2-eae5-4705-87ec-d499777d0b58/Screenshot+2025-03-25+at+8.46.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Editorial Illustration Vole Communication, Digital, 2022 A cover for the journal iScience, published February of 2025, depicting two voles communicating with their unique vocalization techniques. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/60c7da4d-001a-43ee-be91-165153bc99d6/BVIS522_MorenoM_Assign4WithMasthead_20240428.jpg Editorial Illustration Which Benefits Can Justify Risks in Research?, Digital, 2024 A cover designed for the May 2025 edition of the American Journal of Bioethics, abstractly covering the topic of risk-taking in research by depicting a lab rabbit jumping over a dangerous pit of gnashing guard dogs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/b3b05099-bef1-43f7-96e6-d840504a1657/MMoreno_Assignment1_Fall2024+2.jpg Editorial Illustration The Gut of Earthly Delights, Digital, 2024 This piece was a marrying of an unusual style with a usual topic. Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights was referenced in the creation of this journal cover on the gut microbiome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/08f7ce37-97b0-4d95-b6cb-c439138ca31b/IMG_1937.JPG Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Trench Foot, Digital, 2024 A poster created for a Red Cross campaign, presentation, and convention describing the return of trench foot, a condition not seen on a wide scale since WWI, to the newly-dug trenches of Ukraine in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/c9bb104e-146d-43ea-aee7-1b1f822d7f4a/IMG_1707.JPG Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Penile Foley Catheterization, Digital, 2023 A didactic vector-illustrated poster instructing medical students how to properly catheterize a patient. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/97d86c30-b26b-4d63-a6c0-4737402acfc1/DNA_Translation_Poster.jpg Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out DNA Translation, Digital, 2024 A poster designed for high school students on DNA translation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/d8ef4764-27e3-4cbf-91f2-a262c9b1cbb2/CAIS_Patient_Ed_Revised.jpg Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Patient Education Piece, Procreate, Illustrator, 2025 A patient education piece describing several presentations of complete and partial androgen insensitivity syndrome. This piece was a part of my research at UIC, and is a result of surveying the intersex population for their opinions on how they would like to be represented in medical illustration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/a757151a-10d4-429c-8a21-6e194d25b68f/IMG_2092.JPG Editorial Illustration Fleming’s Warning, Digital, 2024 A poster designed for high school biology students teaching about the dangers of rapid antibiotic resistance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/f6f4ca2c-6365-4f78-bf0c-ef2f3129f412/IMG_1866.JPG Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Cover Submission for JCI, Digital, 2024 A cover designed for submission to the Journal of Clinical Investigation to accompany a paper by Dr. Yong Wan of Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/5158ea43-1d15-4500-a83b-427c16326842/IMG_0858.JPG Editorial Illustration Cuttlefish Chromatophore Variation, Digital, 2020 Two layouts describing the variation in color and texture seen in different areas of a cuttlefish’s body, created for publication in conjunction with Dr. Roger Hanlon’s lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/590016d0-e464-4275-92ca-10d09b77caa2/IMG_1028.JPG Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Stages of an Antarctic Whale Fall, Digital, 2021 A poster designed to depict the 4 stages of decomposition of a Right Whale in an Antarctic environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/938d9531-ed52-44a1-89b7-b7b2fd5c2ae6/Untitled_Artwork.jpg Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Snapping Turtle Skull, Carbon dust, 2021 A measured drawing of a snapping turtle skull from two angles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/08412f53-836d-451b-8532-1d3b842ce38d/IMG_2167.JPG Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out How Does UV Light Damage DNA?, Digital, 2024 A poster designed for a pre-med audience on the dangers of UV light exposure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/d069274b-aba7-4d43-a1f2-6dac3934c5bd/Surgical_Editorial_Illustration_.jpg Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Radiation Exposure in the GI Suite: Know the Risks, Procreate, Illustrator, 2025 This piece, evoking the comic book aesthetic of the atomic age, is a hypothetical cover for the journal Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News. It highlights one of the articles in which radiation exposure is stressed as a danger for physicians who often operate in the fluoroscopy suite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/892c27fe-3e36-4bdd-b8e1-7ea34b3fe518/Wk._15_Tissues.jpg Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Multicellularity of the Semeniferous Tubules, Digital, 2024 A poster designed for pre-med students covering the different cell types that exist within the semeniferous tubules. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/f91f6d35-f5e7-4486-900a-a17288d97aca/IMG_1703.JPG Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Penile Foley Catheterization (cont.), Digital, 2023 A didactic vector-illustrated poster instructing medical students how to properly catheterize a patient. http://marcomorenoart.com/med-legal-copy daily 0.75 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/4798a3ba-be2b-42e7-ae96-18bef805bdc8/Shoulder+Dystocia+Maneuvers.jpg Med Legal Shoulder Dystocia Maneuvers, Digital, 2024 The next piece in the shoulder dystocia series, showing the various maneuvers performed by the medical team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/efe02479-0ffd-4c9a-9449-2e9131bc00a1/Med_Legal_A2.jpg Med Legal Compound Fracture, Digital, 2024 This piece was created to show the extent of the bone breakage that may not have been as obvious from the x-ray imaging to a lay courtroom audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/1919a95f-d7ac-4ba5-b2fa-ca225d33996d/IMG_2039.JPG Med Legal Lumbar Spine Osteomyelitis, Digital, 2024 A piece showing the reality of a radiological image, in which the lumbar spine is deeply infected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/1dcd8978-9624-48a6-93c9-275193ea8726/Shoulder+Dystocia+Presentation.jpg Med Legal Shoulder Dystocia Presentation, Digital, 2024 The initial piece for a court proceeding in which the plaintiff was suing a doctor for his actions during a shoulder dystocia case. The doctor was shown to have done everything according to industry standard, so was not charged with malpractice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/f9001f7f-2878-4b55-8558-27a4c097317b/MarcoMoreno_BVIS538_SU24_A4_2.jpg Med Legal - Make it stand out Hernia Revision & Bowel Resection, Digital, 2024 The second in the hernia repair series, showing the revision of the hernia and the location of the bowel perforation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/2681943e-2a82-43ce-b4de-4e0e418e47c2/MarcoMoreno_BVIS538_SU24_A4_3.jpg Med Legal - Make it stand out Hernia Revision & Bowel Resection (cont.), Digital, 2024 The final illustration in the series, showing the doctor’s care to checking every inch of the bowel and resecting the affected area before irrigating and closing the surgical wound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/6666df36-fe2a-4bbc-8677-cfaa5e43024c/Shoulder+Dystocia+Delivery.jpg Med Legal Shoulder Dystocia Delivery, Digital, 2024 The third and final piece in the shoulder dystocia series, showing the baby being delivered with cyanosis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/b2d05684-fac8-4be9-8444-b02ffb2d002d/MarcoMoreno_BVIS538_SU24_A4.jpg Med Legal Hernia Repair, Digital, 2024 A series of illustrations depicting the steps taken by a surgeon who accidentally perforated a patient’s bowel during a routine hernia repair. http://marcomorenoart.com/sketchbook-2 daily 0.75 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/5ef95b69-b37e-45ee-872a-c6b0f0bdcb67/IMG_5168+2.jpeg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Heads 3, Graphite, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/44a1b512-d524-4466-ad4f-ac3a34c8807d/IMG_4321.jpeg Sketchbook Studies of Young Medical Officer, Graphite, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/b904a40d-9cba-4c60-8d3e-06720614ee07/IMG_4943.jpeg Sketchbook Many Angles of the Pelvis, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/faf14f59-3d0e-4b2b-b5a6-5cba20552f17/IMG_5123.jpeg Sketchbook Heads 1, Graphite, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/530081f0-5418-43c2-bbd8-b4548a2b4725/IMG_4859.jpg Sketchbook Cadaver Sketch 1, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/e0459f0d-b014-4c80-9289-f3fa27cd0f26/IMG_4879.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Cadaver Sketch 2, Pen, Colored Pencil, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/55300d07-f123-4e03-841b-154c6093ab4a/IMG_3870.jpg Sketchbook Study of Georgia Aquarium Residents, Graphite, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/c58c8572-c9f8-4d48-b72f-1bf695ab3de5/IMG_5167.jpeg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Heads 2, Graphite, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/a8b6cd7a-1b54-43a4-8bb6-eeb52aae07cb/IMG_4947.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Cadaver Sketch 3, Pen, 2023 http://marcomorenoart.com/other-works-2 daily 0.75 2025-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/e8860145-e088-4758-9972-40cd8b513d00/IMG_1027.JPG Other Works - Make it stand out Still Life with Turnips and Pomegranate, Colored pencil, 2021 A colored pencil still life focusing on the many tones and hues found in turnips and pomegranates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/cc6ef925-a435-4750-8454-cd3ea0a8c8cd/IMG_2418.JPG Other Works - Make it stand out Psittacines, Gouache, 2025 A scientific illustration showing the differences in plumage and morphology between different species of psittacines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/acc44358-862f-48f1-9986-fcc4612cef83/IMG_1026.JPG Other Works - Make it stand out Greebled Gourds, Gouache, 2021 A gouache painting of several gourds of varying sizes and a small, slightly yellowed, bitter melon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/c2d9a6c0-7991-4f3c-af8a-f60f1c0aaf24/He_Shaves_Himself_Now.jpg Other Works Study of Wolf Shaving, Digital, 2023 A figure drawing based on the male head maquette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/32ac6442-6c51-4154-ac60-b411f600cd57/Wabi-Sabi_Still_Life.jpg Other Works - Make it stand out Wabi-Sabi Still Life, Digital, 2022 A digital painting depicting the Japanese philosophical concept and aesthetic of wabi-sabi, or the finding of beauty and meaning in transience, impermanence, imperfection, and simplicity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/9e4c50b4-d5f2-43ca-93a7-14f8c4843c98/IMG_3736.jpeg Other Works - Make it stand out The Shoals, Gouache, 2022 A gouache painting of a waterfall in rural South Carolina where I spent nearly a year in an artist residency. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/bc8bdb60-3e52-43bd-adda-9a09bf57b429/IMG_3551.jpeg Other Works Pickles, Oil, 2022 An oil painting of the various stages of pickling cucumbers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/2b4d68ac-fe35-4fc2-9314-0864f3cdbeff/IMG_3743.jpeg Other Works The Old Barn, Watercolor, Gouache, 2022 A watercolor and gouache painting done from life over the course of 10 hours. Much of the lighting had to be improvised, but luckily from this angle and because of the time of year, the shadows and highlights on the structure did not change drastically. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/f79104c8-d68d-4c19-b9b9-c71ea7ea7c20/IMB_thfexH.GIF Other Works Hilde & Wolf, Sculpey, 2024, 2022 Two sculpted head maquettes, one male and one female, sculpted for general facial reference. Affectionately nicknamed, “Hilde” and “Wolf“ for their early Weimar Republic era aesthetics. Wolf, notably, also has a facial scar and partial amputation of his left ear— perhaps a young veteran of the Great War? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/b442911a-9e7b-4bf1-b214-586f3c5157dd/IMG_5056.jpeg Other Works - Make it stand out Fused Thoracic Vertebrae, Graphite, 2023 A graphite drawing of a bone measured in perspective from three angles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/5e336be3-1f37-4970-b864-038988ed1f61/MMoreno_Sphenoid_Master_Study_Scan.jpg Other Works - Make it stand out Study of the Sphenoid Bone after Tom Jones, Carbon Dust, 2023 A master copy of Tom Jones’s original sphenoid bone study. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/78344e75-4551-48e2-9b89-f8a77b94fcd9/Untitled_Artwork+2.jpg Other Works - Make it stand out Wings and Shells, Gouache on Wood, 2021 A painting of three insect specimens from RISD’s Edna Lawrence Nature Lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/0cc32046-8a1b-43ce-9a72-e116fe9c0e1c/IMG_1449.JPG Other Works Still Life with Maquette and Deer Skull, Oil, 2022 A still life experimenting with warm and cold light sources and how each falls upon different surfaces, such as a tarnished silver cup, the inside of a deer’s ethmoid air cells, and the opalescence in an ammonite. This painting also features the maquette head, “Wolf,” before his hair was re-sculpted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/67399f57-ac70-40a4-93de-17a9bc5b07ff/IMG_1461.JPG Other Works Still Life with Persimmons and Telephone, Colored Pencil, 2022 A still life with both organic and inorganic forms, contrasting the perishable with the preserved, the old and the ancient. http://marcomorenoart.com/figure-drawing-2 daily 0.75 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/38fe19a6-a89c-4496-9a35-fe66b4ceefbc/IMG_5068.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Study of the Lower Limb, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/1578018b-5d53-4233-9de6-eb3623dbca07/IMG_5123.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Heads 1, Graphite, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/20e94d05-f261-4ee4-b745-49b1d133f0e9/He_Shaves_Himself_Now.jpg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Study of Wolf Shaving, Digital, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/00e3e47d-e15f-4119-8a28-99f2320e5589/IMG_1379.JPG Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Seated Nude with Hat, Charcoal, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/f211df28-cc72-4d6a-a4ba-d1aebb494a8b/IMG_3411.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Study of the Back, Charcoal, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/2f2ffd82-7538-4548-a7da-3d6d04de4c87/IMG_1024+2.JPG Figure Drawing Seated Nude in Perspective, NuPastel, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/d02bb285-229c-46c4-80b3-b4f8e641f9d7/IMG_5550.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Study of Alice, Charcoal, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/d146b34b-247a-45c4-ab83-e27ef17a0848/IMG_5167.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Heads 2, Graphite, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/c9790b23-e84b-4752-830c-5fce0b43c53e/IMG_4991.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Short Poses, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/2ed635b6-ca2e-4e57-b1cb-4109ff5b7a4e/IMG_4990.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Gestures Interacting, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/648398a3-daf9-4854-9c91-9f7c6e58fb95/Papa.jpg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Papa, Charcoal, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/55cb0027-2277-4104-93d2-4538997bd92a/IMG_0792.JPG Figure Drawing Nude with Raised Arm, Charcoal, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/9f28aef9-c989-43b2-baa4-13e6271d26aa/IMG_3799.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Boxing Injury, Conté crayon, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/cdd8f2ae-4333-4a6d-9f95-762225c178c3/IMG_1501.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Torso Study, Graphite, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/78918365-c891-4c9b-9b61-ae12df51e9b4/IMG_5071.jpeg Figure Drawing Leg and Foot Studies, Pen, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/0ece08c3-064b-41f1-98f9-8cf94a2c26c9/IMG_1500.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Study of Clavicle and Breasts, Graphite, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/15928ed5-63cb-4eab-903f-a138953a4395/IMG_4994.jpeg Figure Drawing Crouching Nude, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/3c33655e-7ad7-4fc1-a670-50d9c659e787/IMG_3440.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Blind Nudes, Charcoal, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/1a1c9665-3466-4616-a7d9-337a324a9f93/IMG_4839.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Standing Nude, Pen, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/8d3c1b63-f796-41e6-b5db-a04c8c313fe9/IMG_1377.JPG Figure Drawing Seated Nude, Charcoal, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/f5dc6021-8327-4d50-b376-ddd9b5e41c25/IMG_3622.jpeg Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Gestures, Charcoal, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/6abc6698-f652-4542-9f55-f21d5cb7fda4/IMG_1031.JPG Figure Drawing Pregnant Nude, Graphite, 2021 http://marcomorenoart.com/3d-modeling daily 0.75 2025-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/52ee709e-0a57-4ab4-be3c-81903050cd23/IMG_2036.JPG 3D Modeling - Make it stand out Optimized Rib Cage (detail), Cinema 4D, 2024 The rib cage showing the high poly and low poly meshes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/8747c394-85fd-4c4e-9448-7017d988d586/Final_Poster.jpg 3D Modeling Behind the Copper Masks of World War I (still), Cinema 4D, Adobe Substance Painter, Adobe Substance Designer, Adobe Photoshop, 2024. A still composited image of the animated poster created for the same audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/cc6e8217-d3d4-4753-90cc-2e42416507c5/Ambulance.jpg 3D Modeling Ambulances on the Western Front, Cinema 4D, Adobe Substance Painter, Adobe Substance Designer, Adobe Photoshop, 2024. The second poster in the WWI medicine series created for a museum audience, discussing the use of Model T ambulances on the Western Front. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/6c3066ea-2c55-4f7c-9cb0-e470dc9305e2/BVIS560_MorenoM_A3_20250429+2.jpg 3D Modeling - Make it stand out Neratinib as a Binding Agent to HER2, Cinema 4D, Photoshop, Illustrator, 2025 This molecular illustration shows the mechanism of action for neratinib, a new cancer drug designed for metastatic HER2-positive breast cancers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/1b7ab540-6a6c-4e89-b9f0-4f7f025285eb/MMoreno_Modelling3_Spring2025_Exercise1+2.png 3D Modeling - Make it stand out Hands, Zbrush, 2025 A first foray into Zbrush, beginning with sculpting two different hands. One healthy, and one severely frostbitten. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/a4bb371e-f2a7-4d7c-a54b-a5100f28fae3/IMG_2400.JPG 3D Modeling - Make it stand out Olm, ZBrush, Cinema 4D, Procreate, Illustrator, 2025 This poser is designed for a Slovenian cultural exhibit, highlighting the cultural significance of the olm, a fully-aquatic cave salamander native to the region. All assets were sculpted in ZBrush and materials were added in Cinema 4D. Finally, it was rendered in RedShift and composited in Procreate and Illustrator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/4814074f-98b7-4c25-b729-00d17ec042e4/Exercise_1%3A_High_Poly%2C_Low_Poly.jpg 3D Modeling Optimized Rib Cage, Cinema 4D, 2024 A rib cage modeled in Cinema 4D. First a very high-poly version was sculpted, a normal map created from it, and then baked onto a low poly version, giving it a similar amount of detail with a fraction of polygon and therefore RAM usage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/0152d7d0-e137-4bc5-b187-b46689a6d640/ezgif-6cbb2c81634da1.gif 3D Modeling Behind the Copper Masks of World War I, Cinema 4D, Adobe Substance Painter, Adobe Substance Designer, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, 2024. This piece was created for a museum audience learning about the first anaplastology created on a large scale as a result of the First World War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/e9e49a9d-13e3-4890-9290-d63a503d48b8/Exercise_3.jpg 3D Modeling - Make it stand out Texture Orbs, Cinema 4D, 2023 A series of spheres in Cinema 4D achieved utilizing only material nodes and lighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/4d4edf40-e16e-4020-ab15-8b9c943f168b/IMG_2278+2.JPG 3D Modeling A Useful Present for Friends at the Front, Cinema 4D, Adobe Substance Painter, Adobe Photoshop, 2025. The third and final installment in the WWI medicine series created for a museum audience, covering drug addiction and commercially available narcotics. http://marcomorenoart.com/editorial-illustration daily 0.75 2025-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/938d9531-ed52-44a1-89b7-b7b2fd5c2ae6/Untitled_Artwork.jpg Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Snapping Turtle Skull, Carbon dust, 2021 A measured drawing of a snapping turtle skull from two angles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/590016d0-e464-4275-92ca-10d09b77caa2/IMG_1028.JPG Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Stages of an Antarctic Whale Fall, Digital, 2021 A poster designed to depict the 4 stages of decomposition of a Right Whale in an Antarctic environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/f6f4ca2c-6365-4f78-bf0c-ef2f3129f412/IMG_1866.JPG Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Cover Submission for JCI, Digital, 2024 A cover designed for submission to the Journal of Clinical Investigation to accompany a paper by Dr. Yong Wan of Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/d069274b-aba7-4d43-a1f2-6dac3934c5bd/Surgical_Editorial_Illustration_.jpg Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Radiation Exposure in the GI Suite: Know the Risks, Procreate, Illustrator, 2025 This piece, evoking the comic book aesthetic of the atomic age, is a hypothetical cover for the journal Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News. It highlights one of the articles in which radiation exposure is stressed as a danger for physicians who often operate in the fluoroscopy suite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/08412f53-836d-451b-8532-1d3b842ce38d/IMG_2167.JPG Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out How Does UV Light Damage DNA?, Digital, 2024 A poster designed for a pre-med audience on the dangers of UV light exposure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/08f7ce37-97b0-4d95-b6cb-c439138ca31b/IMG_1937.JPG Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Trench Foot, Digital, 2024 A poster created for a Red Cross campaign, presentation, and convention describing the return of trench foot, a condition not seen on a wide scale since WWI, to the newly-dug trenches of Ukraine in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/97d86c30-b26b-4d63-a6c0-4737402acfc1/DNA_Translation_Poster.jpg Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out DNA Translation, Digital, 2024 A poster designed for high school students on DNA translation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/a757151a-10d4-429c-8a21-6e194d25b68f/IMG_2092.JPG Editorial Illustration Fleming’s Warning, Digital, 2024 A poster designed for high school biology students teaching about the dangers of rapid antibiotic resistance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/d8ef4764-27e3-4cbf-91f2-a262c9b1cbb2/CAIS_Patient_Ed_Revised.jpg Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Patient Education Piece, Procreate, Illustrator, 2025 A patient education piece describing several presentations of complete and partial androgen insensitivity syndrome. This piece was a part of my research at UIC, and is a result of surveying the intersex population for their opinions on how they would like to be represented in medical illustration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/511e33a2-eae5-4705-87ec-d499777d0b58/Screenshot+2025-03-25+at+8.46.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Editorial Illustration Vole Communication, Digital, 2022 A cover for the journal iScience, published February of 2025, depicting two voles communicating with their unique vocalization techniques. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/60c7da4d-001a-43ee-be91-165153bc99d6/BVIS522_MorenoM_Assign4WithMasthead_20240428.jpg Editorial Illustration Which Benefits Can Justify Risks in Research?, Digital, 2024 A cover designed for the May 2025 edition of the American Journal of Bioethics, abstractly covering the topic of risk-taking in research by depicting a lab rabbit jumping over a dangerous pit of gnashing guard dogs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/c9bb104e-146d-43ea-aee7-1b1f822d7f4a/IMG_1707.JPG Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Penile Foley Catheterization, Digital, 2023 A didactic vector-illustrated poster instructing medical students how to properly catheterize a patient. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/74854b36-aaab-4897-a255-dec779ceb8cd/BVIS508_MorenoM_RevisedFinal_20250423.jpg Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Physician Education Piece, Procreate, Illustrator, 2025 A physician education piece describing the embryological development and subsequent care of patients with complete and partial androgen insensitivity syndrome. This piece was a part of my research at UIC, and is a result of surveying the intersex population for their opinions on how they would like to be represented in medical illustration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/b3b05099-bef1-43f7-96e6-d840504a1657/MMoreno_Assignment1_Fall2024+2.jpg Editorial Illustration The Gut of Earthly Delights, Digital, 2024 This piece was a marrying of an unusual style with a usual topic. Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights was referenced in the creation of this journal cover on the gut microbiome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/e7c54e56-e2dc-421a-9af5-db0928999e17/Cystic_Fibrosis.jpg Editorial Illustration Cystic Fibrosis, Digital, 2024 A didactic poster designed for a pre-med audience teaching about protein folding and disease presentation in relation to cystic fibrosis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/5158ea43-1d15-4500-a83b-427c16326842/IMG_0858.JPG Editorial Illustration Cuttlefish Chromatophore Variation, Digital, 2020 Two layouts describing the variation in color and texture seen in different areas of a cuttlefish’s body, created for publication in conjunction with Dr. Roger Hanlon’s lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/f91f6d35-f5e7-4486-900a-a17288d97aca/IMG_1703.JPG Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Penile Foley Catheterization (cont.), Digital, 2023 A didactic vector-illustrated poster instructing medical students how to properly catheterize a patient. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/892c27fe-3e36-4bdd-b8e1-7ea34b3fe518/Wk._15_Tissues.jpg Editorial Illustration - Make it stand out Multicellularity of the Semeniferous Tubules, Digital, 2024 A poster designed for pre-med students covering the different cell types that exist within the semeniferous tubules. http://marcomorenoart.com/surgical-illustration-2 daily 0.75 2025-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/5e1910a6-ee9d-4bfd-a8fc-58fec7023bbe/IMG_1679.JPG Surgical Illustration Mucosa of the Stomach & Duodenum in situ, Procreate, Illustrator, 2024 This piece was done digitally using only line; it would appear in a surgical atlas or GI anatomy texbook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/0df443be-0b74-41a9-b5c7-6d98f0dedf70/IMG_6632.jpeg Surgical Illustration - Make it stand out OR sketch of surgeons, Pen, 2024 Sketch of surgeons in the OR performing a palatoplasty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/5eff3322-ddf4-41bd-9846-5a512e08b236/IMG_2439.JPG Surgical Illustration Ruptured Ectopic Pregnancy, Procreate, 2024 A digital painting of a blood clot removal and emergency hemostasis as a result of an ectopic pregnancy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/ee6b1f55-1ac3-4b87-aefd-ffae1185f00d/Uterus_In_Situ_%28Ectopic_Pregnancy%29.jpg Surgical Illustration - Make it stand out Ectopic Pregnancy in situ, Procreate, Illustrator, 2025 A digital painting showing a female pelvis with the uterus situated in situ, showing a callout of a tubal ectopic pregnancy. Created for a patient audience for physician use in an OBGYN clinic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/e9a117e7-af60-4cc6-b340-614e12c8664f/IMG_6646.jpeg Surgical Illustration - Make it stand out OR sketch of double mastectomy (closure), Pen, 2024 A series of procedural sketches of the closure of the double mastectomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/35abaa3a-af00-494a-8fd8-9fe9f77d4f99/MMoreno_SurgicalIllustration_A3.JPG Surgical Illustration - Make it stand out Case Report of an Auto-appendectomy, Procreate, Illustrator, 2025 The story of 27-year-old Dr. Leonid Rogozov— the only doctor stationed in a Soviet Antarctic base in 1961— who diagnosed himself with an acute appendicitis and subsequently removed his own appendix. There are only a few photographs of the procedure, which the drawings all differ from in some way to show the progression of the operation from entirely new angles and points of view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/de53cd3d-a158-4b1a-8c0f-5c77ab590c33/IMG_6645.jpeg Surgical Illustration - Make it stand out OR sketch of double mastectomy, Pen, 2024 A series of procedural sketches of surgeons performing a gender-affirming double mastectomy without nipple grafts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/c481796b-806a-49f9-96d3-c7e5cd8e0589/OR_113.jpg Surgical Illustration - Make it stand out OR Surgical Sketches, Procreate, 2025 A series of sketches done in the OR while observing a gender-affirming vaginoplasty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/6e39b434-4ee5-4773-9043-b8aee7b97b6b/Thyroidectomy_Patient_Ed.jpg Surgical Illustration Total Thyroidectomy Patient Education Flyer, Procreate, Illustrator 2025 This piece was created for a patient audience after witnessing a total thyroidectomy in the OR. It distills down the essence of the procedure, and provides a positive outlook for patients that may be worried about recovery or the resolution of their symptoms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/67b59d60-95bb-4a1d-9b05-7dc4cf30ec04/Ramifications_Of_A_Facial_Gunshot_Wound.jpg Surgical Illustration - Make it stand out Ramifications of a Facial Gunshot Wound, 1915-1920, Procreate, Illustrator, 2025 This graphic shows the progression of a gunshot wound and subsequent surgery/healing process of the parotid area and surrounding tissues over a period of five years, importantly, several decades before the common use of antibiotics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/852bdd03-8775-4865-b3e4-48f270c760a1/IMG_2082.JPG Surgical Illustration Adipose Tissue Study, Procreate, 2024 A study of adipose tissue done digitally from direct observation in the OR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/b6448d7c-e637-4120-aa95-9ea2bbb4c18b/Wk._12_HCC.jpg Surgical Illustration Hepatocelular Carcinoma Poster, Procreate, Illustrator, 2024 A poster created for second-year surgical residents informing them of a case study involving a 52-year-old male undergoing a resection of a tumor from his liver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/d13b1f36-ee7a-4824-aa5b-650b34ba6fa4/IMG_2126.JPG Surgical Illustration Laparoscopic Hysterectomy, Procreate, 2024 A digital painting of a still from a surgical video depicting the cauterization and amputation of the uterine tubes during a laparoscopic hysterectomy. http://marcomorenoart.com/other-works daily 0.75 2025-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/2b4d68ac-fe35-4fc2-9314-0864f3cdbeff/IMG_3743.jpeg Other Works The Old Barn, Watercolor, Gouache, 2022 A watercolor and gouache painting done from life over the course of 10 hours. Much of the lighting had to be improvised, but luckily from this angle and because of the time of year, the shadows and highlights on the structure did not change drastically. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/32ac6442-6c51-4154-ac60-b411f600cd57/Wabi-Sabi_Still_Life.jpg Other Works - Make it stand out Wabi-Sabi Still Life, Digital, 2022 A digital painting depicting the Japanese philosophical concept and aesthetic of wabi-sabi, or the finding of beauty and meaning in transience, impermanence, imperfection, and simplicity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/78344e75-4551-48e2-9b89-f8a77b94fcd9/Untitled_Artwork+2.jpg Other Works - Make it stand out Wings and Shells, Gouache on Wood, 2021 A painting of three insect specimens from RISD’s Edna Lawrence Nature Lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/5e336be3-1f37-4970-b864-038988ed1f61/MMoreno_Sphenoid_Master_Study_Scan.jpg Other Works - Make it stand out Study of the Sphenoid Bone after Tom Jones, Carbon Dust, 2023 A master copy of Tom Jones’s original sphenoid bone study. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/0cc32046-8a1b-43ce-9a72-e116fe9c0e1c/IMG_1449.JPG Other Works Still Life with Maquette and Deer Skull, Oil, 2022 A still life experimenting with warm and cold light sources and how each falls upon different surfaces, such as a tarnished silver cup, the inside of a deer’s ethmoid air cells, and the opalescence in an ammonite. This painting also features the maquette head, “Wolf,” before his hair was re-sculpted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/c2d9a6c0-7991-4f3c-af8a-f60f1c0aaf24/He_Shaves_Himself_Now.jpg Other Works Study of Wolf Shaving, Digital, 2023 A figure drawing based on the male head maquette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/f79104c8-d68d-4c19-b9b9-c71ea7ea7c20/IMB_thfexH.GIF Other Works Hilde & Wolf, Sculpey, 2024, 2022 Two sculpted head maquettes, one male and one female, sculpted for general facial reference. Affectionately nicknamed, “Hilde” and “Wolf“ for their early Weimar Republic era aesthetics. Wolf, notably, also has a facial scar and partial amputation of his left ear— perhaps a young veteran of the Great War? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/acc44358-862f-48f1-9986-fcc4612cef83/IMG_1026.JPG Other Works - Make it stand out Greebled Gourds, Gouache, 2021 A gouache painting of several gourds of varying sizes and a small, slightly yellowed, bitter melon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/e8860145-e088-4758-9972-40cd8b513d00/IMG_1027.JPG Other Works - Make it stand out Still Life with Turnips and Pomegranate, Colored pencil, 2021 A colored pencil still life focusing on the many tones and hues found in turnips and pomegranates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/cc6ef925-a435-4750-8454-cd3ea0a8c8cd/IMG_2418.JPG Other Works - Make it stand out Psittacines, Gouache, 2025 A scientific illustration showing the differences in plumage and morphology between different species of psittacines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/bc8bdb60-3e52-43bd-adda-9a09bf57b429/IMG_3551.jpeg Other Works Pickles, Oil, 2022 An oil painting of the various stages of pickling cucumbers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/9e4c50b4-d5f2-43ca-93a7-14f8c4843c98/IMG_3736.jpeg Other Works - Make it stand out The Shoals, Gouache, 2022 A gouache painting of a waterfall in rural South Carolina where I spent nearly a year in an artist residency. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/67399f57-ac70-40a4-93de-17a9bc5b07ff/IMG_1461.JPG Other Works Still Life with Persimmons and Telephone, Colored Pencil, 2022 A still life with both organic and inorganic forms, contrasting the perishable with the preserved, the old and the ancient. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b38475e4b06441e2c5bacc/b442911a-9e7b-4bf1-b214-586f3c5157dd/IMG_5056.jpeg Other Works - Make it stand out Fused Thoracic Vertebrae, Graphite, 2023 A graphite drawing of a bone measured in perspective from three angles.