Equine Joint Update

Equine Joint In Process

LOTR - Matte Painting Challenge WIP

Elevator Humour

My mom is cleaning out our house right now but she has some friends helping her... here is their story.


Last weekend, my mom's friend and her mother went to Atlantic City to stay and gamble and have fun in a hotel for the weekend. While they were there, the mom hit the jackpot on one of the random slot machines. The jackpot was about 400$ and it came out completely in quarters.

The mother, refused to cash in the quarters because she knew if she did she would spend it before the weekend was up.

So... the mother and the daughter at the end of the evening went to the elevators to get to their room on the fourth floor. Here are the two women, in the elevator (one with a bucket overflowing of quarters) and they get into the elevator on the lobby level - just the two of them. The elevator climbs, and on the next floor two black gentlemen get onto the elevator and look at the mother with her bucket of quarters. Then one of the guys says, 'hit the floor' and suddenly there are quarters flying everywhere in a panic, the women shouting and scrambling to the floor sprawling out as fast as they can. The quarters are scattered everywhere and they are begging the guys to take whatever they want but not to hurt them, they'll do whatever they ask but please just take what they want and go.

Suddenly the two guys start to bust out laughing.

They explain, "I said hit the 'FOUR' not the floor!"

The women I'm sure were really embarrassed but they all had a really good chuckle and cleaned the woman's money back up and had a good laugh. They all got off on the same floor and parted ways smiling...........................

The next morning the two women go to check out and the hotel desk concierge informs them that they're room was already paid for. They didn't understand since they hadn't paid for the room yet, so the woman behind the desk smiled and handed them a note... it said...

Thanks for the best laugh I've had all weekend
-Eddie Murphy






ISN'T THAT CRAZY???!?!??! How did they not know who Eddie Murphy was?!
-L

M.I. In Process... Equinw Elbow Joint

Second Draft of Equine Lateral View - Right Forelimb Sketch
Thanks to Deb Haines for her expertise in Medical Illustration in Veterinary Sciences as I ask her along with this tedious process

Three more sketches before the final draft is complete and it can be transfered onto a 14x17 in Denril Vellum Sheet and Inked

References:
"Rooney's Guide to the Dissection of the Horse"
Sack and Habel
Veterinary Textbooks Ithica, N.Y.

"Illustrated Atlas of Clinical Equine Anatomy and the Common Disorders of the Horse"
Volume One: Muscloskeletal System & Lameness Disorders
Ronald J. Riegel, D.V.M.
Susan E. Hakola, B.S., R.N., C.M.I

Cornell University Equine Dissections
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/oed/horsedissection/

Muscle architecture of biceps brachii, triceps brachii and supraspinatus in the horse

J C Watson and A M Wilson

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2100266/


The role of the extrinsic thoracic limb muscles in equine locomotion
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0021-8782.2004.00353.x/full

Imaging Anatomy
Equine Forelimb Elbow Example
http://vetmed.illinois.edu/courses/imaging_anatomy/equine/forelimb/elbow






First draft of anatomy of Equine Lateral View Elbow Joint with two ligaments
Anatomically incorrect

MP update for KM Animation

Lightning Storm Dream

I had a dream last night that I was laying in a bed somewhere far away from home. I glanced down at my phone and saw that there was a lightning storm with green clouds. The clouds where the lightning was showing on the radar were flashing on the phone screen. I then looked over to the right and saw the most dangerous looking group of clouds I have ever seen. But somehow, wasn't worried.

I started to walk and realized an old friend from years ago, Maria was with me. We did not speak but arrived to a woman sitting upon a wall of sand which we climbed up on and stood in front of her. She held a deck of cards and her eyes were clouded over with fog. She looked to be Native American with colorful shawls and wrinkled tan skin.

They gave Maria some drug to help her with some destiny of hers... I can't remember much of this part. But I know it affected her in a way that she couldn't walk - so a Modern Native American man came along at the elder woman's beckoning and took Maria into a doorway that suddenly appeared.

I do not recall what the woman said to me.

I followed through the door and found a nice handiworked house with carved wood and navajo blankets about. Maria was laying in a bed recovering, and seeming to wake upon my entering. We both were escorted out eventing by the same man who carried her in, to return to our homes.

New Studio Space

Here's my new digs. We each get our own cubicle full loaded with dual moniters, a Mac, and a tablet with two cabinets under lock and key. There's a great dentist light to the right over a drafting table where a lot of the handiwork can get accomplished.