Thursday, May 21, 2009

Slightly more contagious

Following on from my previous attempt for Illustration Friday, here's a new experiment in drawing fake electron microscope images. The painting is of the T4 virus, which apparently feeds on ecoli bacteria, or something like that. I just love its other-worldly look, which shows that the microscopic world is far stranger than anything we would ever find in our own.

2 comments:

silvano said...

This one has definitely a "retro-SF" feel ; if I didn't read your comment I'd think thi was a "fifties-SF spaship" on the moon ...
Great in any case !

Charles Goatley said...

Haha. Actually, I was aiming for that!
Originally I was going to add in another bacterium or blood cell shining in the distance, as though it was the Earth. In the end, I couldn't get it to work the way I wanted.
Thanks for the comment!