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Hi everyone! I have been a little quiet here recently but I am now part time at my day job (hurray!), giving me more time to do all the freelancy things I love the most. I thought I would introduce myself as you will hopefully be hearing more from me.
My name is Emily Holden (McDougall is my maiden name) and I am a medical illustrator and animator. Here are some facts about me:

1/ My undergrad was in Painting from Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh. Since I was young, I always wanted to be an artist & I am still passionate about painting. My favourite medium is oil paint.
I started playing with Adobe Photoshop a lot & got a really small and old Wacom Bamboo tablet that is still lurking around a cupboard somewhere…

2/ By my 4th year of undergrad I was fascinated with drawing anatomy, exploring the beautiful structures conceal beneath the skin. I had been doing dissection drawings in the veterinary school & human anatomy lab of the university when the lecturer told me he knew a surgeon who needed an illustration. And so it began…

3/ I discovered MSc Medical Art course at The University of Dundee as the lecturers & students came for a talk at ECA and I instantly knew that was what I wanted to do.

4/ I graduated from the MSc & worked for the university for 2 years as a Medical Illustrator and Educational Resource Developer & I currently work part time as an eLearning Content Developer for a company that specialise in healthcare eLearning. Through this job I’ve learned quite a bit of html, css and jquery.

5/ In my spare time I like yoga, reading, running and spending time with my wife and my chihuahua going for walks or watching bad movies.
6/ I’m also one of the co-founders of @sciartnow which is a new learning channel for medical illustration. Looking forward to having more time to get this off the ground soon!

7/ My music taste is 95% rock/metal. I don’t share my taste with my other half, I think she would be scared of me if she went through my playlists.
8/ I’m currently 23 weeks and 3 days pregnant so thought it was a good time for a photo before I turn into a blob. Woo.
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Canine Oral Anatomy. Created on iPad Pro with Apple Pencil and Procreate. The focus was on the oral anatomy so the client and I decided on a basic line outline of the dogs head. I have a chihuahua so she wasn’t a suitable model for me for this project even though she wanted to be 💕 🐕. ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀#dog #anatomy #sciart #science #skull #bones #nature #scientificillustration #vet #veterinary #wip #scienceart #procreate #scienceillustration #artoftheday #illustration #illustrator #art #artoftheday #artist #picoftheday #medicalart #medicalillustration #digitalpainting #render #freelanceillustrator #canine #oralanatomy #ipadpro #ipadprodrawing #ipaddrawing

59 illustrations and book design spec DONE ✅. It is so great to be able to put the illustrations into their final home in this book publication. Layout design in InDesign is another one of those useful skills to have, you never know when it will come in handy and you may be able to help your client out with more than just illustration. 💀 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ #sciart #illustration #medicalillustration #medicalart #surgery #surgical #surgicalillustration #physiology #anatomy #anatomydrawing #ipaddrawing #digitalart #anatomical #freelance #digitalpainting #artoftheday #picoftheday #artwork #art #biomedical #science #scientificillustration #Adobe #commission #anatomia #anatomyandphysiology #anatomicalillustration #scienceillustration #biology #sciartnow