Real proportions, no cartoon roundness, and a mane laid down strand by strand rather than as one block. It rewards pencils over markers: two close browns and a lighter tone left along the back give the coat its shape, and the mane needs a point kept sharp or the strands merge. Count on an evening for this realistic horse drawing, and frame it after. The baby horse takes ten minutes instead.
A horse at a walk, mane and tail long, a butterfly ahead.
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Realistic Horse: how to draw it step by step
Here is realistic horse in 9 steps.
Set down the head in profile and the arch of the neck.
Add the ear and the eye, then the line of the cheek.
Run the back from the withers to the croup in one line.
Close the chest and belly underneath.
Add the four legs, one foreleg lifted at the walk.
Mark the knees, the fetlocks and the hooves.
Lay the mane along the neck in long separate strands.
Draw the tail with the same strands, falling and curving.
Finish with the butterfly hovering just ahead of the nose.
What you need
Paper, a pencil and an eraser.
Worth having for this one