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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist

@studiohromi.bsky.social
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🫀 Certified Medical Illustrator 🖌️ Multimedia artist 📍 Grand Rapids, MI 🚫 Anti-slop MedArt: hromibiomedical.com Shop: studiohromi.com/shop Other links: linktr.ee/studiohromi

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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The whole “my boyfriend/husband/etc is my unpaid intern 😊” thing at art markets is so demeaning. Gals, you are strong and capable, and if my 90lb 4’11” little self can set up and tear down my display solo then so can you. I don’t do my spouse’s job for him, and I don’t need him to do mine!
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Feeling kind of salty today about full-time employed MIs who make good money and freelance “on the side” like it’s a cute little hobby. Save some for the rest of us.
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A series of dental/periodontal illustrations depicting the essential steps involved in a proposed method to treat deep gingival recession in the anterior mandible, taking into account the unique anatomical considerations of the papilla between the lateral incisor and canine. #sciArt
Illustrated steps for periodontal surgery.
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Genuine question. If you're in a state affected by the cyclospora outbreak and you claim you haven't eaten a single vegetable this past month, are you just saying that for the bit or are you for real? I get that you're PROBABLY just trying to be funny but science literacy is so abysmal I can't tell.
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I hate that I tried a common engagement bait format on Instagram and it actually worked
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Cute lil #animation I made a few years ago for fun. Sliced up an #illustration from a different project and animated the different elements to make this looping scene. #stargazing #telescope #illustrator
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Why do men hold the microphone so far away
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wow after more than two years I’ve been paid a whopping $19 by Redbubble
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Nicole Dornsife | Thornwolf @thornwolf.com · 03/07/2026
Saw the most intense double rainbow in my life coming out of a crab boil restaurant. Heard a lady on the opposite end of the parking lot yell “OhmyGAWD! Holy SHIT! ….Happy Pride!” 🌈🌈
Me standing in a parking lot with a friend looking at a double rainbow The rainbow is vibrant over the trees The rainbow is showing duplicates of itself like a tunnel A shot of the double rainbow and the tunnel  ridges of the inner bow
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Idk how I feel about artists being at two very in-demand events on the same day (i.e. being present at one and having a friend run their booth at the other). Bizbaz and GR Pride are both kinda hard to get into, I feel like they could share the love a little and give up one spot for another vendor.
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Artists I’m begging you to take yourselves seriously, no more of this “I’m an artist because I’m not smart enough for anything else” little baby bullshit. You’re smart and capable and worthy of respect!
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Cute lil #animation I made a few years ago for fun. Sliced up an #illustration from a different project and animated the different elements to make this looping scene. #stargazing #telescope #illustrator
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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 27/05/2024
art depicting orange and pink skulls with broken jaw on a green and red background, layered drawings of a woman with long hair
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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Memento Mori: A Selection
A skeleton cloaked in a weighty black dress wears a bridal veil made of chain mail. Concealed behind a bouquet of dying flowers is a massive rusty sword. A skeleton floats in the air adorned with an effigy likeness of Jesus. Subverting this is a snake that coils around its arm, its mouth producing a golden tongue-like blade. A skeleton shaped out of veins and blood, all leading to a heart in the middle of its rib cage. A skeleton walks festooned with marine life and a rotting flag impaled through its chest. It drags a stone anchor.
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Today's horrific AI medical image found in the wild
Some slop supposedly communicating information about brachytherapy. I don't know, it's illegible and incomprehensible.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
9 months old and still so true. “ If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider.”
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Feeling suspiciously on track with client deadlines rn
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Things said aloud only by a medical illustrator with cats: “please don’t chew on my skeleton.”
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Why is “keep me signed in” such a lie?
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
My favorite thing about making an Instagram dedicated specifically to my “Places” project is that a couple of well known local influencers now follow me but ALSO accounts such as “GR Bathrooms” and “Birds of GR” follow me too. Being part of a city-specific shtick is funny.
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Got ghosted by a company a few years ago because they weren’t interested in discussing licensing options. They reached out again last week to revisit that convo but I have a feeling I’m gonna be ghosted again because of just saying “yes” I presented an option that works slightly better for me.
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I have no way of knowing if it's related but ever since I redesigned my website, work has been coming in way more consistently than before. Busy and grateful for it after an abysmal first quarter.
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I have been self-employed for seven years and people still think I work at my old job (somehow even people who met me after I stopped working there).
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Been using Instagram again and my god everybody is pretending like they're experts about color theory, it's suddenly like the phony Tiktok therapyspeak of the art world
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Hey artists, if you see this, post a dog Pet portrait commission/gift for my BIL and his family ♥️
Realistic digital painting of a black, white, and tan spotted American bully dog
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I don’t feel like much of an artist lately. I’m making the work I need to make but so little of it feels like ART
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
another day, another horrifying genAI medical illustration found in the wild 🤮 the olfactory nerve, famously in the forehead
AI slop pretending to be a medical illustration of cranial nerves, but it's actually veins(?) on a guy's face and they're all labeled in gibberish. very educational!!
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I've been uploading a ton of new/old work to Redbubble, if you ever wanted one of my doodles, collages, or discontinued designs on a range of products. Kind of obsessed with these three items in particular (I actually bought the clock for myself). studiohromi.com/redbubble #art #artist #redbubble
A product image of my original collage "Space Age" on the face of a clock.A product image of my houseplant illustrations on a pullover sweatshirt.A product image of my egg person illustration on the cover of a spiral notebook.
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GraphicsSci.bsky.social @graphicssci.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Ever been confused about what images you can use from the internet to illustrate your research? Read our latest blog post to find out about copyright licences, image use, and why you should avoid generative AI for scientific illustrations. 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/yyOMFUp
A silhouette of a capybara from PhyloPic is shown on a mobile. The same image is shown on a paper next to it. The text on the post reads: “New blog post. Using images and illustrations from the web responsibly”.
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Embarrassing that certain medical illustrators are still championing genAI in the year of our lord 2026
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
New collage work #collage #analogCollage #paperCollage #analogArt
Analog collage titled "Calcified" featuring imagery of birds' eggs, teeth, and other white elementsAnalog collage titled "Effigy" featuring an anatomical drawing of bird anatomy and floral elementsAnalog collage titled "Human Ancestors" featuring a desert landscape, a galactic sky, and giant towering mushrooms
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Nice surprise to see an image from my former professor in the book I’m reading #SciArt
A photo of the cover of the book Health Design Thinking by Bon Ku and Ellen LuptonA photo of a page in the book Health Design Thinking that features an image by medical illustrator Amanda Almon
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Somebody anonymously sent books from my wishlist, thank you whoever you are!
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
One thing about me is that I’ll always fill out a post-event survey
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 15/03/2026
Still true
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I've been cold-emailing and applying to more opportunities lately instead of passively waiting for work to come to me, and I can't say I'm super confident that all or any of them will pan out but something feels really good about practicing the skill of writing about myself and my work.
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
My housekeeper is doing a terrible job lately (it’s me, I’m my housekeeper)
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
$1B per day is about $42 million per hour. About 30 min worth of that spending can fund my lab for my ENTIRE career (~20 3-year NSFs or ~10 5-year R01s). Please wrap your head around that.
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright. (Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Places We Have Loved: Grand Rapids Public Library I actually started this one a couple years ago but I didn't get too far beyond the rough sketch. I'm happy to finally have this one checked off my to-do list. #illustration #art #library #grandrapids #grandrapidsmi
An illustration of the main branch of the Grand Rapids Public Library
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Hands and foot study from 2023 #art #figuredrawing #digitalart #hands #feet
A realistic digital painting study of hands holding onto a foot
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Alice Stuart @aliceillustrates.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Another zine! This time about one of my favourite groups of not ducks. And an u likely symbol of resistance against oppression. Donate to keep Minnesota housed: www.standwithminnesota.com
A mini zine with rounded corners, on it is the text “not ducks” and an illustration of a common loon, which looks a little like a black and white spotty duck but with a pointier beak.A page of the zine with a greyscale illustration of a yellow billed loon hunting minnows. Again the loon is a bit duck-like, but I promise you it’s not a duck!

On the page is the text:
some think loons are named after their clumsiness on land, but they are incredibly agile underwater, chasing down and catching fishThe back cover of the zine, which has a very large head of a common loon and the text:
common loons are the state bird of Minnesota, currently occupied by ICE as such, they’ve become somewhat of an unofficial symbol of the resistance. To that, I say FUCK ICE and all occupying forces. Donate to keep MN housed @ standwithminnesota.com
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Places We Have Loved: Grand Rapids Public Library I actually started this one a couple years ago but I didn't get too far beyond the rough sketch. I'm happy to finally have this one checked off my to-do list. #illustration #art #library #grandrapids #grandrapidsmi
An illustration of the main branch of the Grand Rapids Public Library
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Mythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Bones of the skull #SciArt #medicalIllustration
A medical illustration of a human skull with individual bones colorized
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
FYI, this grant program is open to anyone communicating science. It does not require that you went to school for science. You could be a Ph.D. student, an artist, a community organizer, a teacher, or any other profession. As long as you are communicating science IRL in the US, you're eligible.
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Over the weekend I picked this project back up after not working on it for nearly a year, and I feel like maybe it's done now #cat #cats #digitalArt #digitalPainting #petPortrait #art #illustration #artist #artsky #catsky
A digital painting of my cats, Juniper and Willow
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Post a banger that's not in English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwTr...
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La Femme - La femme ressort
YouTube video by La Femme
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Emily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Over the weekend I picked this project back up after not working on it for nearly a year, and I feel like maybe it's done now #cat #cats #digitalArt #digitalPainting #petPortrait #art #illustration #artist #artsky #catsky
A digital painting of my cats, Juniper and Willow
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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023 people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
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