How I Draw My Horses: The Full Horse Part 1

Oh boy, this is going to get messy!  As I said before, I am not a neat drawer!  Start off like the horse head, but make the new image 500x600.  This is going to be a rearing horse, so it needs to be taller.  Next I'm going to lay down some vector circle/ellipse layers.  These are going to be used as a guide.  The first shape you make will create a vector layer.  For each new shape you add, first add a new vector layer or all your shapes are going to be stuck together!  My first shape is the rear end of the horse.

Next put on a ellipse shape for the body and rotate it so that it is pointing towards the top.  Then add an ellipse for the head, rotating it also.  Finally, add another circle for the shoulder and neck area.  Gee, it sort of looks like one of those balloon dogs!

Are you ready to get messy?  Add a new layer to draw on.  I'm going to throw on some details that will help me get some perspective and a belief that this can turn into a horse.  Adding a mane and tail makes it better.  I have also drawn a line from the top of the head ellipse down and around the read end circle.  Oh.......don't worry, that leg isn't going to last!  Remember, doing the rear end is the hardest part for me.  But I want some kind of start for my front legs, and I need to sort of see a sign of the rear legs.  The front leg will have a large shoulder bone area.  That should be about on the same line as the end of the neck.  I draw down and a little to the left, then when I cross the plane of the stomach, I curve in for another one of those funny looking U's.  At the end of the U, draw a little line down and at an angle pointing left.  Now follow around from that end point, come around the knee area and angle out to the right to end the line of the front leg.

Before getting to work on fixing up the hoofs, I go ahead and add a second rear leg, the belly line and the chest line.  The head gets drawn like the first horse head tutorial I showed you.  And please, no comments on the rear end yet!  I know it looks awful!

Ok........let's fix the front legs up.  I select the bottom foot area, delete it and zoom in to do a good job.  See the U?  As you are coming back around to form the left side of the U, it's going to be shorter than the right side.  At the end of the left side of the U, draw down, then left, then down again.  Each of these are separate draw stroke.  Don't try to draw too much at one time when fine tuning.  Now, where you ended the hoof, start back up and curve out in relationship to the straight line above it.  See how they head towards each other almost meeting?  Now, draw up the leg, keeping your space equal until you round the knee area.  If you look closely, you will notice that it almost looks like you have two straight lines coming up from the hoof to the knee.  Now draw to the left and curve up slightly.  Then curve down slightly and end with a short line up and to the left.  Now if you need to, correct the shoulder bone curve like I did in the second image.  You can now make your second front leg.  Start this about on the same line as the chest line coming down from the neck.  Follow the line of the first leg, keeping the space equal.  End it slightly above the first hoof on the first leg, curving out slightly.

Now you can correctly connect the chest line that runs from the head down to the front legs.
 


 
 

Ok.......let's finish this horse up and fix that rear end!  I hate rear ends!

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