I’ve now completed my second month of drawing a minimum of one horse a day. I started on 14th March – here’s the link to the first month. Thanks Struthless for the tip on this. I think I might actually go mad; I’m sure interested to see.
Sometimes I really am not in the mood to Horse. Sometimes I am. The only way to approach this exercise is to do it anyway, and if you get a crappy token horse (like, say day 62), it just doesn’t matter.
The Patons Knitting books I’ve also been working from often weirdly has horses as props, so I have done two horses that way:
The eye worked well
1940s was the best men’s fashion except for the moustaches
Something went horribly wrong in 1970s knitting mags
This month I started shading more, focused a bit on doing a few GOOD drawings, drew a zebra, donkey, and mule, did some more non traditional style drawings. I think month three is when I’m going to go a bit whack on interpreting horse. Because I’m bored of horses now.
Day 1 what is with that front leg
I borrowed a history of horses from library
cave art horses
da foot bone’s connected to the hoof bone
dat ass
zeebras and that famous series of photographs on a galloping horse
horses
more horse
still more horse
i found three good horse books in the op shop, so lots of nice pictures
cart horse
various running horse
drew own horses, resorted mostly to how my brain used to think of horses
action horse
anatomical horse
horse in a bar in paris drinking absinthe
horse antics
this is where i started shading
drew this one in a work sprint planning meeting
assorted high jinks horses and cartoony styles but drawn from actual poses (not the unicycle one)
more horse again. so much more horse
half copied, half interpreted
got my smart art ‘pop art’ box so i went a bit weird on this one