How to Draw Wild Horses
- 1). Search through photos of wild horses. Your resulting drawing will be more interesting if you choose wild horses as they run through the hills. Choose a large photo that measures at least 12-inches by 14-inches. Have a photocopy made if you can't find a photo that large; the printer can enlarge it for you.
- 2). Draw grid lines on the photo; make the squares 1-inch by 1-inch.
- 3). Mark your drawing pad with a grid of the same exact dimensions, using a pencil to make light marks.
- 4). Find the tip of one of the horse's noses.
- 5). Count the number of grid squares to that spot. For example, the horse's nose might be eight squares up from the bottom of the photo and seven squares in from one of the sides.
- 6). Find the square of the same number on your drawing pad.
- 7). Observe the shape of the horse's nose and see the lines that create that shape. Look at how they curve and how the lines that form the nose hit the walls of the grid square and at what angles.
- 8). Draw lines on your paper's grid square that replicate the curve of the lines of the wild horse's nose. Recreate the lines you see in the photo on your paper. If you draw a line, -- yet the angle or curve isn't exactly right -- draw it again. Don't be afraid to erase mistakes.
- 9). Move up from the wild horse's nose to its eyes. Move the pencil to the wispy hair of its mane and then to the cock of its ears. Draw these items on your paper, using the grid.
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Fill in the rest of the horse's body and draw the other wild horses in the picture as well. - 11
Get rid of the grid on your drawing paper; erase carefully. - 12
Shade your drawing using the side of your pencil lead. Shading gives a drawing not only its three-dimensional quality but also its drama. This is especially important in a drawing where you're capturing the essence of a wild animal. Fill in the whole drawing, mapping out the areas of light and dark without worrying about whether you've captured the exact tone. Once you've gotten these areas put down on paper, go back and make the dark areas darker. Add more drama by paying attention to spots like the horses' manes blowing in the wind or the shadows that create the black of the horses' eyes.
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