Portrait Of A Memory

Nature Journal recently commissioned me to tackle an illustration on memory and how it works. The brief required an image featuring disparate elements, including Cumberbatch's Sherlock, connected in intricate ways so I thought I look to 3D software for assistance. I created an atom array of spheres for the complex memory structure then worked in the colour and photo-collaging for the final image. You can see further work for Nature on the site here.