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Jul 24. 2021
Animals, How to Draw

How to Draw a Horse (9 Easy Steps)

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How to Draw a Horse (9 Easy Steps)
Jul 24. 2021
Animals, How to Draw

In this lesson, we’ll take you step by step through how to draw a horse. Drawing horses is quite difficult. A good way to get the proportions right is to match the length of the animal’s head with the other parts of the body as you draw. By following the guidelines below and using the horse drawn here as a model, you will be able to create the correct drawing.

How to Draw a Horse
  • All of the blue lines in this drawing are the same length.
  • The figure shows how the different parts of the horse’s body relate to the length of its head.

Table of Contents

  • 9 Steps on How to Draw a Horse for Beginners
    • Step 1
    • Step 2
    • Step 3
    • Step 4
    • Step 5
    • Step 6 – How to Draw a Horse
    • Step 7 – How to Draw a Horse
    • Step 8 – How to Draw a Horse
    • Step 9 – How to Draw a Horse
  • How to Draw a Horse – PRO Level
  • Conclusion

9 Steps on How to Draw a Horse for Beginners

Step 1

How to Draw a Horse
Don’t press down hard with the pencil.

Draw a circle with oblique ovals indicating scapula and thigh. Use two more ovals to represent the head.

Step 2

How to Draw a Horse
Lead zigzag lines from the center of the ovals.

From the centers of the scapula and thigh zigzag lines leg. Add circles – joints and triangles – hooves.

Step 3

How to Draw a Horse

Trace the outline of the shape as shown in the picture. Then erase unnecessary lines.

Step 4

How to Draw a Horse

Draw the ear, pointing its tip backwards. Erase the line that crosses the ear. Add an eye and a nostril.

Step 5

How to Draw a Horse

Draw two more “zigzag” legs and hooves. Draw the outline of the legs and erase unnecessary lines inside.

Step 6 – How to Draw a Horse

How to Draw a Horse
The tail continues the back line

With a few long draw a mane and tail. These lines “flow” along the horse’s body to show the movement of the horse.

Step 7 – How to Draw a Horse

How to Draw a Horse
Color the legs in the background. Color the lower part of the body and the neck.

Mix blue ink with a lot of water to get a pale shade. Paint the body parts indicated in the picture, thus indicating the shape of the animal.

Step 8 – How to Draw a Horse

How to Draw a Horse

Use long flowing lines of pale blue to depict the mane and tail. The strokes may extend beyond the outline.

Step 9 – How to Draw a Horse

How to Draw a Horse
Use a pencil for contour lines

When the image is dry, trace the outline with a blue pencil. Press the pencil harder or weaker on the paper to make thick and thin lines.

How to Draw a Horse
  • Sprinkle blue ink under the horses’ feet with the brush, as if they were galloping on water
  • Apply the shadow before splashing the mascara on.

How to Draw a Horse – PRO Level

Drawing the perfect proportions of a horse is very difficult even for a professional artist, let alone a beginner.

How to Draw a Horse

Draw a wide and elongated oval, sketch the tail. When drawing the neck, pay attention to the sag between the neck and the torso. The horse’s neck is long. The head can be schematically represented as a circle oriented for drawing legs pelvic bone line hip and rectangle. The most difficult work is to draw the legs. Mark the line of the hip and, continuing it, draw the hind limbs. In drawing the front ones, focus on the base of the neck.

How to Draw a Horse

Make sure that the shape of the legs is drawn correctly. Make the muzzle volumetric. Sketch the mane.

How to Draw a Horse

Highlight the mane and tail, add shadows and touches.

Conclusion

Unfortunately, many artists, even great masters, do not always portray the horse successfully. This indicates that its study has often not been given serious consideration. It is unfortunate when in a painting, along with a quite competent depiction of human figures and other components of the picture, the horse is depicted ineptly, weakly, sometimes with errors that hurt the eye.

Only systematic study and constant work from life, familiarity with horse anatomy and hippology (the science of the horse) will enable the artist to portray the horse truthfully and realistically.

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