Still on the question of drawing

When a specimen is squished onto a slide, needless to say thing shift to accommodate being flattened. Most things shift in a consistent manner such that most slides have the same arrangement of structures. The same could be said for cleared, non-slide mounted specimens which all look similar to each other. The problem comes with drawing these structures. Do I draw them as if you are looking at a slide specimen (which is easier because everything is already flattened for me) or a cleared non mounted specimen? There likely isn't a correct way of doing this, but rather it should be specified in the drawing which way I chose. Lateral views will help with this problem as well, especially if the later option chosen. Consistency is likely important too which lends support to the slide mount option because many of these species are only available as slides.

Drawing difficulties

Sketching is relatively easy. I draw lines on the page where I see them on the specimen. Transferring those lines into something that my readers will understand through my interpretation is tricky. The difficulty lies in creating a 3-D image on a 2-D surface with a lack of any drawing skills what so ever. So little by little I will hope to make slight changes in my drawings so that they will be interpretable by researchers for years to come. Here goes...