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How to Draw Horses

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This book's cover has [seemingly] nothing to do with what is inside. There are no other colored pencil illustrations.

All steps are in black and white, beginning with an explanitory drawing of the basic shapes a horse has. There are only a few pages on definition/detail of heads, ears, fetlocks, pasterns and hooves. The rest of the book is dedicated to certain breeds. On one page the author has the finished work, showing the rough drawing and cleaned up line art on the other page for each breed. There are the Arabian, Morgan, Clydesdale, Quarter Horse, Shetland Pony, American Saddlebred and others.

As far as instructing someone on how to create a horse on their own, this book is lacking. However, it does help someone with some artistic talent already to see how a horse is drawn and shaded. By trying to copy the drawings in this book, I was able to get an understanding for drawing horses. It really got me interested in drawing horses, and in horses in general.

I agree with Person. I have this book, and the drawings inside are very poorly done by someone who obviously knows next to nothing about horses. They are misleading and are cartoony caricatures at best.

As an equine artist, one of my pet gripes is the number of how to draw horses books which are illustrated by artists who do not know horses well. How can you learn to draw a horse properly from inaccurate drawings and instructions.

There are better books out there for all ages. "Draw Horses with Sam Savitt" is tops in my book and also the Walter Foster books are better.

For those of you who have never really been around a horse, I'd like to point something out. The horses ears are incorrectly placed, and I wouldn't go buying this book and open it to find a bunch of donkey like horses. I'm just warning you, becuse that's probably what you're going to find. And as for the people who HAVE been around horses for awhile, you should know about a horses anatomy and see that this is incorrect. Again, just a warning, I've never tried this book, but I've been around and ridden horses for 3 years, so I'd think I'd know where a horses ears go, and that's not where they go. Another thing; the horses eyes are too small, and the neck is way too short. Also, the horses upper lip looks like a chunk was cut out of it. Their upper lips are not that pronounced. Just warnin' ya...