Explicative Drawings

Here you will find cartoontype images, illustrations on the themes of medicine and science, as well as anatomy sketches. These drawings show how the cooperation between a neurosurgeon who rarely draws and a sketcher who is newly acquainted with this world, can look like.

Medical Comics

These pen drawings come from a collaboration with neurosurgeon Marc Lévêque. He is passionate about algotherapy. Each black and white drawing in this category is an attempt to show and explain pain. At best, humans are at the heart of medicine. Fun illustrations must be medically correct. They also illustrate the importance of psychosocial factors.


“Your drawing on pain is convincing. This way that the very motherly young woman tries to tame the dreadful is very well done.”

– François, illustrator and painter

Diese Auftragszeichnung ist eine Tusche Illustration in Grau und Schwarzweiß. Auf der Comic Zeichnung ist Folgendes zu sehen: Eine Frau mit Augen zu und Lächeln im Gesicht hält eine merkwürdige Kreatur in den Armen. Die junge Frau bemuttert das kleine Monster. Das kleine Monster hat blutunterlaufene Augen und kratzt an der Haut der Frau. Die Frau wiegt das Monster. Ein Text von dem Dichter Charles Baudelaire steht auf Französisch in Handschrift: „Sois sage ô ma Douleur, et tiens-toi plus tranquille.“

Explanatory Drawings

These simplified explanatory drawings and sketches are intended to outline complex facts. Visual support gives scientists a new language: Readers finally understand what is happening! I try to grasp the subject and draw it in such a way that it can be understood. Artistic drawings must be as simple as they are precise – and recognized as illustrations of scientific authority.

Tusche Illustration. In dieser Comic Zeichnung staunt eine kleine Frau mit gepunktetem Outfit vor einem großen Gehirn. In der künstlerischen Zeichnung ist auch ein Text in Handschrift zu lesen: „À croquer.“, das auf Deutsch „Zum Anbeißen“ bedeutet.

Anatomy sketches

To explain how neuromodulation works, it is useful to look under the skin. What we discover is fascinating. The paradox: we enter a very living world, whose secrets have been handed over to us by the study of hundreds of dead organisms. Bones, muscles, nerves: the tools of a healthy body that do not require us to participate consciously in their functioning. A sketch of anatomy underlies the scientific explanation. If humour adds to it, you learn and have fun at the same time.

“I was convinced by all the sketches you sent me!!!”

– Marc, neurosurgeon and author

What Explicative Drawings can do

Medical Comics

  • simplification of complex technical content
  • fun illustrations make concepts understandable
  • expertise is accessible to a broad public

Explanatory Drawings

  • complement the content of a textbook synergistically
  • play with references to the history of medicine
  • provide didactic support

Anatomy sketches

  • visually support the text
  • keep the message simple
  • enhance the scientific explanation