Drawing Teeth

Teeth are fun to draw. They are shaped like tiny aliens, tentacled underwater creatures, or controversial modern sculpture. Using Kilgore dental study models as reference, I designed a number of t-shirts for my class over four years of dental school. To celebrate graduation and our shiny new DDS degrees, here all the designs in one extensive blog post.

This would be a great game for an arcade or dental office waiting room. I just have to clear up a few copyright issues:

Diploma

Graduation is fast approaching, a day that will bring this cartoonist much joy and this blog many commencement-related posts. 

Follow this link if you'd like to order a print for your own Class of 2011 warrior-poet.

Calendar Illustration

This is my contribution to a 2011 calendar featuring the work of twelve Kansas City illustrators and cartoonists. For the month of April, I imagined some intrepid oral surgeons hunting the great white maxillary molar. For fellow dental nerds, they're wielding a Molt 9 periosteal elevator, 150 forceps, and 301 elevator. Anatomically correct teeth lurk just below the surface. Cartoonist Bryan Stalder was responsible for corralling and motivating the featured artists in the calendar, which is available for purchase here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/63426488/2011-calendar. 

NTLDD

Plaque-Man

Another t-shirt design for the dental school. I came up with the idea while doodling during a particularly tedious Friday afternoon lecture. The actual shirt will probably only have two colors, but this color scheme is true to the original arcade game. If you're interested in buying one to support a UMKC student dental group, let me know.

Dental School T-Shirt

I used some interesting reference material for this drawing: a book about manga culture by Takashi Murakami and a mandibular first molar from my typodont with a Class II amalgam restoration. Hopefully the result is somewhere between a Kanye West album cover and Sturdevant's "Art and Science of Operative Dentistry."