Mr Vern Vincent

“Exceptionally responsive to feedback and requests for minute adjustments” “Highly accurate, anatomical renderings with a very clear understanding and command of human anatomy” “Working from a distance with only descriptions and suggestions to go on is a huge challenge. Levent was able to quickly assimilate all vague and nebulous ideas into revised drafts. This made … Read more

Muscles in action

Muscles do not move the body only; but get an illustration into action as well. In a complex action freeze like this one, they dominate the scene; much more than they do in standard anatomy atlases. See-through views give us a great chance to exteriorize the musculature to enhance the feel of the action.

Motion sickness

Turbulent enough to get the Vestibular apparatus moving!

The task in hand is to illustrate Motion sickness in an Australia navy officer. Having worked through several projects with the Australian Geographic magazine for the past 20 years, I knew this task was going to be another in-depth look at another exciting topic.

The initial preview on the left depicted the vestibular apparatus, fluid movements in the semicircular canals and the other organs impacted. Yes, our officer was in enough pain and discomfort, but the overall circumstances were deemed to be not turbulent enough by the artistic director, Mr Andrew Burns.

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Pancreatic aneurysm in Whipple

Medical illustration of pancreatic aneurysm in whipple

Take your camera and go on a journey within the human body

Looking at a blank page and visualising impossible camera angles is what really makes this profession extremely exciting for me. Here, my challenge was to depict a Gastroduodenal artery stump aneurysm after a Whipple operation.

Only available visual references can be seen on the top left. A 3D view of the aneurysm and a sketch form the clients, Professor Jaswinder Samra and Dr Tony Pang of Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. The extra challenge was to show communication with the Gastrointestinal tract and bleeding from aneurysms in two different locations (B and C).

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Meniscus repair

Visualising an operative sequence A patient education illustration dating back to 2003!  Arthroscopic procedure to stitch a tear in the Right medial meniscus. As we are looking at the tibial plateau from a “supero-postero-medial” angle, having removed the femur from the scene hardly distracts the lay viewer. While providing the prospective patient with extensive information … Read more

Mr Andrew Burns

I have commissioned a number of illustrations from Levent for the Australian Geographic Journal. He is not only a talented illustrator but his knowledge of all things medical makes his input invaluable. His research, attention to detail and his understanding of the subject matter produces functional accurate and informative illustration that our readers love. His … Read more

Dr Calvin Miller

I regard Levent as the Frank Netter of the 21th Century. Or perhaps Frank was the Levent Efe of the 20th Century! Either way, both Levent and Frank have captured the beauty and complexity of human anatomy in illustrations that are easily understood yet detailed and precise.

Dr Vivienne Cass

Dr Efe created excellent illustrations for my book, The Elusive Orgasm, and fully satisfied my request for them to be innovative and readily understood by the general public. I found him to be professional in his approach and interested in the task at hand.

Dr Bryan C. Mendelson

I have been most fortunate to have been involved with Levent for over 15 years with the illustration of aspects of Plastic Surgery. This has included 4 book chapters and in excess of 10 original papers, mainly on the description of aspects of facial anatomy based on original research. Several of these papers have become … Read more