Barbie horse
I know it has been a while since the last time I posted something on my website, but here I go again!
I wanted to draw something quickly to improve on my sketching skills. It can be quite difficult to capture the movement of an animal and therefore I decided it was time to start practicing this skill. My example horse was a Penny poster (again). I can hear you thinking: Did that poster truly show a Barbie horse? No, it did not, but I did turn the pictured horse into a barbie horse!
The actual example photo depicted a chestnut cantering horse. I started of by sketching, as that is usually the thing your start with;) I tried to start of with just basic shapes, like circles to show where the belly, the legs and the head should be. After this I continued by connecting these circles and slowly filling up the blank spaces. I shifted the positioning of the legs several times until I was satisfied with the result.
Then I started to outline the horse with a black fine liner and erased all the pencil lines. Now that the base was there I could color it like a coloring page. I decided to color it pretty rough, since coloring was not the main focus for today. Besides, I also wanted to try a different technique for coloring, using alcohol markers instead of pencils. The choice for pink and purple was unconscious, based on the fact that they were just the first colors I could find.
Of course there are things I could improve on, especially in the coloring as you can still see all separate pen stripes, but all in all, I am quite satisfied with the result. I believe the legs are positioned realistically and create the impression that the horse is cantering. So, the sketching did work out!
At least that is my opinion. What do you think?
