Anatomical drawing on a cast

Heather Tomkins drew this lovely anatomical illustration on the casted arm of her friend, the illustrator Taylor White: "I was thusly wrangled into making this old school plaster cast (they do things funky in Norway apparently) into an awesome work of art."

CAST, AWAY!!!! (via Street Anatomy)

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trueblue2

Wow, was not expecting to see one of my friends on BB. Awesome!
mwm8180

the illustrator who drew it is an SF based friend of mine, she did the cast in stages, you may have seen it out and about before the break point was drawn on. the final version can be seen on her blog though, and the person who broke her drawing arm is an Oslo based illustrator, hence the outsourcing of artwork. They went to school together, a link to her site can also be seen on the blog.

http://blog.heathertompkins.com/

http://blog.taylor-white.com/
LOSERKID

KOOOOOOL!!!!
Anonymous

Sometimes people get cast sleeves. Someone should try printing anatomy on them to sell.
Baldhead

does it include the break point?
BrotherPower

THAT’S why I come here every morning, that right there.

Truly a wonderful thing.
KWillets

Aha, I think the dashed line version is what I saw, at the Safeway booze section :P
Brainspore

Hah! Some Illustrator Taylor White must be if the art had to be outsourced. Broken drawing hand, you say? Oh.
weatherman

That makes me want to break my arm just so I can have it.
mwm8180

check out both heather’s and taylor’s work at they’re websites/blogs:

heather:
site: http://heathertompkins.com/
blog: http://blog.heathertompkins.com/

taylor:
site: http://taylor-white.com/
blog: http://blog.taylor-white.com/
Anonymous

@Weatherman: one doesn’t need a broken bone in order to apply plaster of paris to one’s arm
Anonymous

Better than getting everyone to sign your cast. Much better.
phoomp

very cool!
KWillets

Saw one of those in SF on Saturday. No break either.