plants) that dwell in the oceans of the world.
In 2021 I spent about 4 months drawing nothing but plankton. It was something I’d wanted to do for a long time. By spending so much time drawing a subject like this I learn a lot as I go. We live on a plankton powered planet. The fossil fuels we use to drive our automobiles are ancient plankton . Oil and natural gas are made from the organic remains of prehistoric plankton. Every other breath we take comes from the oxygen that phytoplankton produces in the ocean. The largest migration on planet Earth takes place every single day, when zooplankton rises from the deep at night to feed on the phytoplankton and as the day dawns that migration is reversed when the creatures descend into the dark safety of the deep. Scientists refer to this phenomena as the vertical diel migration. I like to think of it as the heartbeat of our planet. - Ray Troll