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I Illustrated 112 Elements of the Periodic Table To Make Them Easier To Remember
High school chemistry class used to be confusing at best. Then I imagined what the chemical elements would be like as characters. Suddenly everything became a lot more interesting...
An artist from birth, I was the kid who drew in a class all the time. This phase perpetuated well into art school - where it was actually OK to draw in class! As the senior year approached, they encouraged us to come up with an idea for cool drawings that combined everything we'd learned at school and gave insight as to who we were and what inspired us. Drawn in pencil and colored in Photoshop, I took my first love - characters - and combined it with a strong idea to create these 112 illustrations for the periodic table of elements.
These days, I'm concepting an entire world in which these periodic table elements live, and a story to go with that world. I'm also selling flashcards on my Etsy shop to help kids around the world learn about the table of elements.
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Carbon
Aluminum
American spelling version: aluminum UK/wider used spelling: aluminium. Same thing, unfortunately
Technetium
Cobalt
Hydrogen
Is this meaning to look like water? I think the plasma of a star would have been a good representation, hydrogen is the principal fuel.
Fluorine
Argon
Argon gas is actually more dense than air, so it sinks when released. Cool picture though!
Krypton
uhhh no. Krypton is the planet that Superman is from and Kryptonite (a solid) is the rock from his planet that makes him weak. There is no Krypton gas to my knowledge involved in the superman comics.
Bromine
Nobelium
Copernicium
Phosphorus
Thorium
It's a very poor example for Thorium. How about: it's the best energetic alternative on Earth. 5000 tones of Thorium would be enough to supply, the energy for the entire planet for 1 year, implying less risks and no pollution at all - due to the Thorium reactor's achievements. (Taking the Thorium approach to the production level, would mean less money for whoever controls the energy market - that's why people either don't know anything about Thorium, either they relate it to toothpastes.)
Chlorine
Cerium
Tantalum
I'm sorry, I love all of these but he was not a Greek god. He was punished by the gods :)
Meitnerium
The elements named after people do not give a clue as to the form or use of the element.
Titanium
Europium
Says what it's named after and also gives a use, those are the best ones.
Iodine
Iodine is known for subliming near room temperature, would be nice to incorporate that.
Gold
Copper
Mendelevium
I notice it was element 101. Perhaps How To Invent The Periodic Table 101?
Scandium
Zinc
In fact Zinc isn't added to steel but the steel is covered by tiny film of Zinc.
Yttrium
These areal awesome and world have done me a world of good during chemistry lessons ;-)
Bismuth
Californium
Indium
Tin
Tellurium
In Bahasa Indonesia, Telur is egg.. I thought it was a smell of a rotten eggs.. and it was called Tellurium by someone who speak Bahasa :p
Praseodymium
Tungsten
Lead
didnt people still use lead when marie curie was finding radioactive stuff?
Actinium
Seaborgium
Roentgenium
Sulfur
Potassium
Vanadium
On the accompanying flashcards that I bought on Etsy, I discovered that the Atomic Mass and Density for Vanadium are wrong. It would also have been helpful with units for the densities (which are otherwise very useful). The densities for the gasses appear to be for their liquid forms. But I am looking forward to using these with my "reluctant" chemistry students. I think they will enjoy them.
Gadolinium
Platinum
Oxygen
Lawrencium
fabulous - as a person who always loved Chemistry class in high school, this would have been great to have had on the wall over 40 years ago ... instead of the usual boring chart.
fabulous - as a person who always loved Chemistry class in high school, this would have been great to have had on the wall over 40 years ago ... instead of the usual boring chart.
