While working as a lab technician in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Medical College of Virginia after college, I learned about “medical illustration.” Pre-PowerPoint, lectures were given with slides; the fellow who came into the lab to pick up the prints to be made into slides inquired about a sketch I was working on that lay on my lab table. I told him we were submitting cover art to the Journal of Neurosurgery to accompany 3 articles about the research being done within our department. . (The Journal of Neurosurgery encourages authors to submit cover artwork, rather than contracting an artist). He responded, ‘You should talk with my wife, she is a medical illustrator’. My interest was piqued, I could actually make a career out of illustrating medical and scientific topics. I was at her o­ffice that weekend; the next weekend, I visited the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions to learn about prerequisites.... and so began my journey into weaving science/medicine with art as a medical illustrator.