How to learn to draw a horse:
#5 
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Work from nature
When you start drawing horses in the lap of nature, limit yourself to just one coloring tool. For example, if you prefer to work with a pencil, take only the middle pencil (say, B), a sharpener and, of course, a notebook for sketching. You will not need an eraser: if you feel that you have drawn a line in the wrong place, simply draw it again in the right place. And if necessary, you will erase the erroneous line, although you can leave it: it will show where you took the false direction and how you corrected it later.
You will be able to gradually replenish your stocks of tools required for working outdoors, as you gain experience and self-confidence. But for now, in no case do not burden yourself with unnecessary things. Try different materials at home and determine what suits you best.
How to convey expression
Observations of horses show that these animals, in spite of their violent energy, are able to show their mood and some emotions in calm minutes. Compare the two examples in this spread. A mare who feeds her foal (opposite page) has a gentle and peaceful expression on her face, but the horse on this page (below), with her head bowed and squinting eye, is clearly afraid of something.
Traffic
It is almost impossible to draw a running or jumping horse from nature: its ingot movements are fast, and our eye is not able to fix them. And although her head and torso remain relatively motionless, the position of her legs is constantly changing, following, in fact, a strict sequence consisting of a series of small movements. This is very similar to the frames from the cartoon. Everything happens too fast, so the human eye cannot notice it - unlike a camera and a movie - or a video camera.
Freeze
Before the era of photography, people just guessed how the horse’s legs move, and this explains the rather strange paintings that can be seen in art galleries: horses hover on them in the air, stretching all four legs at the same time.
With the help of photographs and films, for the first time, people managed to “freeze” this sequence of horse movements and see exactly how this happens: when her legs bend, when they straighten, when they touch the ground, and, perhaps most importantly, how these movements agree with each other.
Memory work
If you are drawing from nature, here is my advice. Just watch the subject for a while. Then, while the information is still fresh in your memory, quickly transfer it to paper? all that you can remember from what you saw.
How to capture the most basic
Look at your actions as an exercise. After all, the purpose of the exercise is not to create a finished work, but to transfer the horse’s movements to paper. In this case, you must find and catch the rhythm of her body - the smooth fluctuations of the lines and the alternation of angles between the joints of moving legs. And if you manage to convey them in the very initial contours, more detailed details can always be added later.
Speed and magnitude
Draw quickly so as not to get stuck in the details. In addition, apply wide strokes so that they contain as much movement as possible. This will give your drawing freedom.
However, it should be emphasized that you should choose the scale that is most convenient in each specific case: if you force yourself to make an unnaturally large picture, this will not only not liberate your writing style, but, on the contrary, will make it even more constrained.
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