Sunday, 24 July 2011

How to draw - a simple horse head

So this is my first (of many perhaps) of  how to draw. Here I'll show you a quick way to draw a simple horses head.

Step one is just to draw two circles one large one for the head and one smaller oval for the muzzle. It's important to get the distance and angle between them right as they give the first basic structure to your horse. You might also want to sketch out the position of the cheek bone.

 Step 2 is to join these circles up thinking about the lines of the horse (this may differ between breeds). For this horse the line comes out from the circles and then dips slightly (some horses may have a more rounded head). The bottom of the head has two bumps from the muzzle to the throat. Then your want to draw curved lines for the neck of your horse.
 Step 3 - draw in the further details like the eyes, nosrils and ears and make sure your happy with the outline. You can tweak it a bit until your happy.
Finally rub out any lines that you don't need and draw in mane and forelock detail and colour if you want. 

This was just a quick doodle if you use this technique then I'd love to see how your doodle turns out. 

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