Biomedical & Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth
Rotary pen on paper 29.9 x 21cms
Rotary pen on paper 29.9 x 21cms
Rotary pen on paper 29.9 x 21cms
Rotary pen on paper 29.9 x 21cms
All images are illustrations made for the purposes of recording and identifying particular spider species.
Biological drawing
Biologists are keen observers of the world around them, recording their observations in a variety of formats. For biologists that work in the field drawing is one of the oldest and most important of these. Drawing allows them to capture the maximum amount of information in a single image, simplifying complex structures and presenting them as clean simple lines that can be annotated to provide fine detail and additional data. Styles range from the simple outlines used to record notes in the field and those used to illustrate identification keys, to the more complex stippled drawings that give a sense of form, used to present whole organisms in taxonomic treatises.
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