Hi, Tom here and in this week's video I'll show you a simple way to draw a
horse, in this drawing a use of 4B pencil, but any pencil would do, first draw a
circle, it can just be a rough circle, it's a basic shape for the front of the
horse, next draw a slightly smaller circle on the left, leaving a gap about
as big as a small circle, now we can draw a big oval to fill this gap between our
two circles,
next draw two lines from the biggest circle going right and they get near
each other as they get longer for the neck, now draw a small circle for the top
of the head and then another circle slightly smaller for the mouth area of
the head of the horse, then we can join these two circles together with two
short lines, next draw a circle for the knee of the
front leg of the horse, again we can join this circle with two lines, now we need
another smaller circle for the end of the leg and then just two narrow lines to
join these circles together, then we could draw a wedge at the end for the
hoof of the horse, we can repeat this process for the second front leg, but
this time I'll draw it going straight down to the ground, you could have both
front legs going straight down to the ground, I guess, now we can read across
the height of the knee of the leg on the right to find the heights for the circle
for the leg on the left, this circle needs to be perhaps slightly left of the
center circle above it and then the lower part of the back legs will come forward,
again we can repeat this process for the last back leg of the horse too,
at this stage we could add the ear and maybe some marks to indicate where the tail goes,
so, all we've done really is just blocking the basic shapes of the horse
first, rather than add any detail, which can happen later, next we can smooth out
some of the lines, building on these basic shapes that we have,
horses are very powerful animals and I think it's a challenge to draw the power but also
the elegance of a horse,
you could add some spirals to your drawing to indicate the form of the
horse, I find that helps sometimes, so that you get away from just drawing the
outline of a horse, but start to think about the 3d structure within it and
then you can sort of find the lines for indicating bits of muscle and bits of
outline later on, we could also block in the eye, the
nostril and the mouth, but everything is still in a sketch form at the moment
the next step is to erase the lines that we no longer need, in this sort of
drawing I think it's best to draw the basic shapes first, but then to be very
willing to correct anything that you think you can improve, just by erasing
that one area and redrawing it, rather than erasing too much, I'll draw the ears
going forward, then once you are ready you could add some tone to your drawing, some
tonal value, for this drawing I'm using a 4B pencil and I'm going to make the
horse quite a dark tone, but I'll leave some sort of reflected light in it,
maybe using an eraser to get the highlights back in,
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