The Ocean's Invisible Crowd

I just finished up a very fun assignment for Muse magazine.  The article describes the different  microscopic organisms that inhabit our oceans.  I was asked to illustrate a bunch of cartoonish organisms floating around the photos and bodies of text.  Here are the little characters placed so there is space for the article and photos. 

Thanks to AD John Sandford for the fun assignment!

The giraffes are insincere.

It's been a while....

I wanted to play around with the same design in two different mediums, so I used the Simon & Garfunkel song, At the Zoo, as inspiration :).  The top is digital and the bottom is a mix of collage and gouache.