Equine Gastric Microbiome - JAVMA Journal Cover

Editorial artwork created for an issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. The image is based on the paper "Dietary and management factors influence the equine gastric microbiome", and depicts both the horses typical diet, stomach anatomy, and the microbiome contained in the mucosa of the stomach.
Modeled in ZBrush and rendered in Maya with Redshift, additional painting done in Procreate and Photoshop.