Ok, I admit it...I'm really no good at drawing horses. So, I turn to you, members of dA, in the hopes that you can enlighten me.
I'm trying to get some good proportions and accurate details on cartoon horses. I know, I know, those really aren't compatible phrases, but it makes sense in my head so shush, you! To be precise, I'm trying to draw something similar to that classic disney style, or maybe something more like what and have going in their work.
If anyone has any tips to offer, pictures they think will work well as reference or some tutorials to reccomend (I can't find any...*sigh*) please let me know. I'm all ears to any help you can give.
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Jolly Jumper would be another example of cartoon horse... You can find such tutorials at Resources > Tutorials > Traditional Art > Drawing > Animal Anatomy, I can see a number about horses in the first page already. Making them cartoony can be done in various ways: making legs longer or larger, making body skinny or barrel like, exaggerating expression of the head, etc.
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Everything I draw looks cartoony, it's just how I draw. I find if you just keep it simple, not too many excessive detail lines, only whats nessecary to show the shape and volume of the animal and simplify.
Then you can experiment. With Classic disney for example, sleeping beauty. Prince Phillips horse had an exaggeratedly large body, the legs were thinned and the face was exaggerated with the browline pronounced (for expression) and the eyes were moved to be more in front of the head rather on the sides like a real horse.
The best thing you can do is observe and experiment.
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I'm trying to get some good proportions and accurate details on cartoon horses. I know, I know, those really aren't compatible phrases, but it makes sense in my head so shush, you!
To be precise, I'm trying to draw something similar to that classic disney style, or maybe something more like what
If anyone has any tips to offer, pictures they think will work well as reference or some tutorials to reccomend (I can't find any...*sigh*) please let me know. I'm all ears to any help you can give.
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Everybody wants to laugh but nobody wants to cry,
Everybody wants to hear the truth but everybody wants to lie
Everybody wants to know the reason, without asking why
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die.