Drawing: Horses

         I like drawing in my free time, and even though I usually draw flowers and people, sometimes I like to also draw animals. the basic animals to draw are cats and dogs and maybe bunnies but this time I tried to draw a little more complex animal such as the horse. Horses have long necks, long legs, and big bodies so sometimes it can be extremely difficult drawing an animal such as the horse, but through the guidance of tips, and techniques from my IRP book The Usborne Complete Book of Drawing designed by Nigel Reece and edited by Alastair Smith and and Judy Tatchell,  I have drawn a pretty good horse if I do say so my self.
       In the book, it says that all horses have the same type of structure for the head but even if they have the same structure, they can slightly different proportions such that one horse head can have a much leaner or less defined shape while another horse's head can have a more rounder and more defined shape (Alastair, Tatchell 33). In the drawing below you can see that the head of the horse I drew has a really well defined shape. I used the tips in the book to outline the shape and I did that with a black sharpie. also the head I drew is round and more fuller as you go from the mouth to the ears.  Another thing that the book stated that helped me with my drawing was how to draw the pace of the horse and I decided to draw the horse doing a canter. The book states, "This is a bounding, rocking, three-beat movement. The horse sets down one back hoof, then a pair of diagonals, the the last front hoof " (Alastair, Tatchell 35). In the drawing I drew, I tried to draw the horse doing the canter. I wasn't perfect but you could see that 1 leg is on the ground, 2 legs parallel and diagonal, while the front one looks like it will touch the ground last. Through the tips of the book, I drew a horse that resembles one in real life. I decided to be creative and color the horse in rainbow and add in different patterns just to give it a bit of a spark, but overall I would say the drawing came out great.

How do you think the horse came out?
Do you like that I made it with different colors and different patterns or would you just have preferred it as the normal colors?
If you like to draw, then what animals do you prefer to draw?

Smith, Alastair, and Judy Tatchel. The Usborne Complete Book of Drawing. Usborne Pub., 2009.