One thing I always knew about the book was that it needed illustrations. About the time I was looking for an illustrator, a student called Matt Wimsatt said during introductions in class that he was a medical illustrator and that he had seen a lot of pictures of births. He was talking about the shift in his intellectual process of needing to draw something using his skill and experience, as opposed to now needing to understand what might actually happen in labor, and the physical and emotional reality for him and his wife.
I tucked that information into the back of my mind, and after class I asked him about his illustration work. It turned out that Matt had the perfect blend of art and experience for the book. He had the technical skill to do anatomical drawing, but he had also done a lot of illustrative work as well. So using him for both types of drawing was possible. I had been worried about providing a visual consistency for the book, but here was the perfect solution.
I asked him if he could make the figures look a little bit like the “For Better Or For Worse” cartoon, in that I wanted soft figures that women could really relate to. Pictures become so dated so fast and illustrations can sometimes show us a bit of our humanness, without being as confrontational as a photograph. And Matt did an amazing job, and was great to work with – so much so that he also designed the new Realbirth logo with me. I'm really pleased with the results.
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