Lines of fascia – Anterior view
© Natalie Intven 2020

Natalie Intven, MSc.BMC

I am a medical and scientific illustrator based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. I completed a Masters of Science in Biomedical Communications at the University of Toronto (2008), with a focus on medical illustration and interactive media design. I create accurate and effective visual content for scientific education and research, currently as part of the amazing team at BioRender.


BioRender Icons


Article for Spark Life Science Visuals

How Vaccines Work – Exploring the vaccine response at a cellular level

For this article, I wanted to make the images approachable and fun.

I created a set of characters and utilized a villain vs. superhero metaphor.

Check out the full article on ScienceYa! to learn more about how vaccines work.


Illustration for Educational Publishing

As part of a collaborative team at Imagineeringart.com for eleven years, I created illustrations, animations, and digital learning solutions for educational publishing platforms. I played a major role in creating content for illustration programs in the following publications:

Moore – Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 7th edition – Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2012

  • Lead artist role: Initial art style development and colour palette design. Revitalized art program with updated rendering styles, a unified colour palette, and enhanced anatomical accuracy.
  • Art direction and content review for each figure, and illustrated many figures within the book
  • Over 1100 medical illustrations, originally created by esteemed medical illustrators over many years, re-created by illustrators at Imagineering.

Saladin –Anatomy & Physiology 6e – McGraw-Hill 2012

  • Cover illustration (over photo)

Morton & Crawley – Discovering Anatomy: A Guided Examination of the Cadaver – Morton Publishing 2018

McConnell – Human Form, Human Function: Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology– Wolters Kluwer / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2010

Morris – Biology: How Life Works, 1st2nd, and 3rd editions – Macmillan Learning 2013, 2016, 2019

  • Art style development
  • Content development
  • Illustrations throughout

Amerman – Human Anatomy & Physiology – Pearson 2014


Freelance Projects

Lines of Fascia for Evolve Active Therapy

Acute and Chronic Effects of Tissue Injury due to Chemotherapy Error

Intra-Tendinous Arterial Supply of the Gluteus Medius and Minimus Muscles – Thesis by Mitchell Kingston


Student Portfolio (2006-2008)