Exploring Ecological Artistry: A Science Comic

I have an exciting update!  Last winter, an art gallery on campus (Third Space Gallery) kindly hosted a science outreach event and art show for my graduate program and it was a huge success! I loved seeing all of the different media and having a chance to interact with the Davis community alongside other Ecology students to share our research interests, passions, and future plans. My husband and friends have inspired me to learn how to digitize and color my drawings and sketches using my iPad. The video below is a quick timelapse showing how I created a Chinook Salmon comic drawing from start to finish in the program Procreate! Depicted in the comic is a scene of young Chinook Salmon highlighting a few key factors that they face during their first year of life, while developing in freshwater environments of northern California (i.e., Sacramento and Klamath Rivers), just before they begin to prepare for outmigration to the ocean.