I am an imaginative and creative illustrator with extensive experience in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, specializing in medical and scientific illustration and working with Mayo Clinic, textbooks, and publishing projects. I enjoy sketching rough thumbnails of ideas and concepts and turning them into final artwork using digital tools, always aiming to meet deadlines and deliver high-quality visuals. I excel at combining traditional drawing skills with modern software to produce clear, compelling illustrations for print and web. Highlights of my work include the medically based spider illustration for the Amazing Spider-Man movie, full-color baby illustrations for Baby’s First Year Book, and educational graphics for McGraw-Hill textbooks. I collaborate with publishers and healthcare teams to create visuals that inform, educate, and engage diverse audiences.

Kent McDaniel

I am an imaginative and creative illustrator with extensive experience in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, specializing in medical and scientific illustration and working with Mayo Clinic, textbooks, and publishing projects. I enjoy sketching rough thumbnails of ideas and concepts and turning them into final artwork using digital tools, always aiming to meet deadlines and deliver high-quality visuals. I excel at combining traditional drawing skills with modern software to produce clear, compelling illustrations for print and web. Highlights of my work include the medically based spider illustration for the Amazing Spider-Man movie, full-color baby illustrations for Baby’s First Year Book, and educational graphics for McGraw-Hill textbooks. I collaborate with publishers and healthcare teams to create visuals that inform, educate, and engage diverse audiences.

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I am an imaginative and creative illustrator with extensive experience in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, specializing in medical and scientific illustration and working with Mayo Clinic, textbooks, and publishing projects. I enjoy sketching rough thumbnails of ideas and concepts and turning them into final artwork using digital tools, always aiming to meet deadlines and deliver high-quality visuals. I excel at combining traditional drawing skills with modern software to produce clear, compelling illustrations for print and web.

Highlights of my work include the medically based spider illustration for the Amazing Spider-Man movie, full-color baby illustrations for Baby’s First Year Book, and educational graphics for McGraw-Hill textbooks. I collaborate with publishers and healthcare teams to create visuals that inform, educate, and engage diverse audiences.

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Work Experience

Illustrator/Image Specialist at Mayo Clinic
June 1, 2002 - Present
Proactively created medically based, scientific illustrations. Notable achievement: illustration of a spider for the Amazing Spider-Man movie. Formatted multiple photos, graphs and illustrations for Mayo's websites. Created illustrations for Mayo health books and other types of brochures, newsletters and magazine publications. Also illustrated various full-color baby illustrations for Baby’s First Year Book.
Illustrator at McGraw-Hill
July 1, 1996 - January 1, 2001
Created math and scientific illustrations for major textbooks. Created graphs for algebra textbooks.
Illustrator/Computer Artist at Learning Design Associates
July 1, 1993 - August 31, 1996
Digital artist and illustrator - Created detailed scientific illustrations for chemistry, history and math books. Used digital graphics programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator. Used conventional paste-up, wax machine, paste-up boards and Xacto blades and applicator tool techniques.
Paste-up Artist/Designer at Nutis Press, Inc.
July 1, 1990 - December 31, 1992
Designed catalogs, posters, banners and various promotional products for this printer for the major beverage industry.

Education

Bachelor of Arts: Illustration at Columbus College of Art And Design
January 1, 1980 - January 1, 1984

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Industry Experience

Healthcare, Education, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services