The Curling Microbe

Finished editorial illustration, landscape 4:3, directly overhead. One imaginary amoeba-like microbe centered on a flat muted dusk-lavender ground. Its comically broad, squat violet body has an uneven softly lobed silhouette; one disproportionately long peach-tipped pseudopod curls loosely around its outer edge without closing into a ring. Two oversized soft interior blobs suggest organic substance, not labeled anatomy. Broad buttery oil-paint-like colour fills, a few visible brush sweeps, and loose hand-drawn marker contours; deliberately simple, expressive and legible at thumbnail size. Warm peach light brushes one edge against the cool violet body. Generous empty margins, no intricate texture or hatching. No face, people, wall, laboratory, equipment, diagram conventions or educational framing. No text, logos or watermarks.