What do you do if you’re a surgeon and want to explain an innovative technique for suturing a corneal or limbal incision? Well, that’s a common question with an easy answer: you hire an illustrator, such as myself, to help you do that. Then, when you publish, it looks real good and other surgeons can do the cool knot too.

The Loma Linda University Cancer Center is creating a beautifully landscaped garden area and needed something more than this rough sketch that the landscape designer had provided to them. So, I took this and set it back in perspective, took a look at the plant life that was included: camellia, ferns, azalea, annual color, and Japanese maples and created an illustration they can use in posters, flyers and other collateral materials for the Cancer Center.