Chidiebere Ibe

A little navigation around our library! 🎉 We aim for this to be the one-stop diverse digital library for medical illustrations and animations across ALL specialties. With the goal: To Improve Learning and To Improve Outcomes For Patients! 💻Check out: 🔗 www.projectkreate.com And in my BIO. 📍Start now, then make it better.

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It’s live!!! I want to thank the Almighty God for the wisdom and idea to bring this to live. This started as a quiet frustration: opening a textbook, an atlas, or a slide deck and not seeing the patients actually in front of us. Every rash, every rendering, defaulted to one skin tone, as if that were the only way disease ever presented. I also thought, how can we better represent conditions that cannot necessarily be illustrated, and people feel unseen. So, we created a storytelling medical animation. That frustration became a sketch. The sketch became a question: what if the reference material itself were the problem, not a footnote to fix later but the actual gap costing people their diagnoses? So the sketch became research. The research became a process: reference-gathering, clinical review, and revision after revision, because “close enough” isn’t good enough when your image might be the only one a clinician has ever seen of a condition on skin like their patient’s. Here’s what that gap actually costs. Black patients diagnosed with melanoma have a 5-year survival rate of roughly 70%, compared to over 90% for white patients. The disease itself isn’t more aggressive; that gap all but disappears once you control for stage at diagnosis. The real driver is late detection: nearly half of Black patients are diagnosed with advanced-stage melanoma, compared to about a fifth of white patients, in part because clinicians are trained to recognize what disease looks like on one skin tone and are rarely shown the rest. That’s not a rare edge case. That’s the entire reason this library exists. None of this happens without support – deep thanks to the Termeer Institute and to our partners at the International Centre for Genetic Disease (iCGD), Harvard Medical School, for backing this from the start, long before there was anything to show for it. And to my team Gift Wilfred, God’sgift, Edward, Kunda, Samuel, Idiongo. Today, it’s not a sketch, and it’s not a promise. It’s real, it’s live, and it’s ready for the students and clinicians who need to see the full picture, not just the easiest version of it. Please follow us @project_kreate

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My works have been featured by CNN, Forbes, Good Morning America, TED, Harvard Medical School and other notable mainstream media. Not because it’s pretty, but because it’s necessary. Clinical education has had a representation gap for a long time, and closing it matters enough that people far outside medicine have taken notice. We’re proud of that. But honestly, the part we’re most excited about is simpler: tomorrow, this stops being something people write about, and starts being something you can actually use. Tomorrow, it’s yours!!

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Every illustration in this library starts as research, not a sketch. Before a single line gets drawn, there’s reference-gathering, clinical consultation, and a deep research about how a condition actually presents across skin tones — not just the version that’s easiest to find in existing textbooks. Then comes the sketch. Then the revisions. Then clinical review, again. It’s slower this way. It’s also the only way to make something clinicians can actually trust. This is the process behind every piece in the library. In 2 days, you get to see where it leads.

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First real look at what’s coming! This is Molar Pregnancy rendered the way it should actually presents, not the way it’s always been drawn. Every detail has been through review, because “close enough” isn’t good enough when someone might use this as their only reference point. This is “one” piece of the library. There’s a lot more where this came from and in 3 days, all of it is yours. Please give us a follow @project_kreate

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I got tired of opening a textbook and not seeing diverse patients in it. Every clinical illustration I study from, every atlas I flip through, shows the same default: light skin, every time. Rashes, lesions, cyanosis, jaundice, etc — all rendered the way they present on one skin tone, as if that’s the only way they present at all. That’s not a small oversight. A finding that’s textbook-obvious on light skin can be genuinely hard to catch on melanin-rich skin if you’ve never been shown what it looks like there. That gap isn’t cosmetic — it’s diagnostic. It delays care. It costs people. So we set out to build something different! Coming in 5 days!!

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