Hey, all you members! I've been told SO MANY TIMES that I draw amazing horses, so I've decided to give you guys tips on drawing them and such!

First of all, each horse has its own shape, size, color, and look. So draw different head and body shapes for different breeds. For morgans and such you can make their forehead straight, and for arabians you can make it dished in the muzzle area. Dished means curved in. For a quarter horse you can make a broad face with a small half circle below the ears to put its eyes in. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll try to get some sketches of mine to show you what I mean. Foals have thin, long legs. Although it may look funny at first when you make them have long legs, when you're done it looks like a foal! Foals have foreheads that curve outward, and slowly go back to the shape of the nose. They have big gleaming eyes.

When drawing, sketch. Sketching is just brushing your pencil lightly on the paper instead of pushing it down as hard as you do when writing an essay or such. Make sure the body is shaped just right.

For coloring, you can shade the horse's body in. In some areas you can shade lighter to make it look like the horse has a shiny coat. You might want to do that for the mane or tail, because it looks good when you do.

Ok, this really bothers me: people think horse's ears are shaped like triangles, so thats how they draw them. But they aren't. Horse's ears are actually curved, believe it or not!

NOTE: I will have drawings and sketches of mine posted on this page soon.

Drawings from Flikr:
(Please Note: Do not copy some one else's art. It doesn't make you an artist. It makes you a phony.)