The challenge
No standard angle shows the whole story.
An equine hoof and dental care company needed an illustration of ting points, the acupressure points that ring the top of each hoof, and the organs they correspond to. The client came with a rough sketch and a list of correspondences. The concept was clear but the challenge was spatial: ting points encircle the entire coronary band, front, back, and both sides. No standard angle shows all of them at once, which meant every existing reference was either incomplete or relied on multiple views.
The APproach
A view that barely exists had to be assembled from scratch.
Very few illustrations of hoof ting points exist, and the ones that do are either oversimplified or use multiple views. The insight was a top-down perspective looking straight down at each hoof from above, which naturally reveals the full ring of points. The more important decision was treating the anatomy as equine, not human. The gallbladder ting point persists in horses despite them not having the organ. Getting that right meant going back to source material rather than adapting existing references.
The reflection
When a standard angle doesn't exist, building one from scratch usually leads to the clearest solution anyway.
The outcome
Approved without a single revision.
The client received the finished illustration and requested no changes. The top-down perspective solved the visibility problem that had made every existing reference insufficient, showing all four hooves, all the points, and all the organ correspondences in one cohesive image.
