Dear friends of microscopy,
thank's for comments to the drawing. As Wim mentioned, drawing needs very much time and taking pictures seems to be more comfortable. Nowadays I only take it upon myself to draw when there is no chance to figure out the third dimension by a number of shots plus stacking.
Doug asked if I'm using computer to support the drawing process. The Actinosphaerium picture was my forth efford to draw with 3-dim-effect at all but I'm using computers and DTP software like Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photopaint for years. So I was happy being able to use Photopaint for assistance :-))
Keywords of process:
- Taking pictures as drafts
- Drawing the basic picture manually with pencil and paper according to the drafts and what remained in mind.
- Scanning of basic picture
- Contrast manipulations with DTP software.
In the case of Actinosphaerium it's necessary to draw lots of axopods but it's exhausting to draw them all manually. So I used the copy and paste function of Corel Photopaint to multiply and adapt the axopods from the basic picture.
All things considered I'm only able to present four drawings. I'll show them combined with photos. Prospective I'm eager to draw Stylonychia mytilus. Had you ever looked at this astonishing ciliate (preferrably a large specimen) through a stereo mic with magnification 50-80? Incredible!
As an example look at my "basic picture" for Actinosphaerium.
If you feel like reading German you can look for details of drawing through the microscope technique and subsequent computer-processing at
http://home.arcor.de/woelfib/Mikro_780_060202.pdf
Don't hesitate, there are a lot of charts and pictures :-))
Cheers, Wolfgang
The Drawing is incredible Wolfgang. Did you draw that on the computer or is it a scan of your drawing?
