Like shooting fish in a barrel How to Describe a Horse Head Tutorial and Horse Head Coloring Page

A drawing of a Horse Head, made with the help of an easy step by step tutorial.

Of all the animals there are to draw, I think horses fall into a unique category as beingness one of the virtually loved, AND one of the well-nigh tricky. Even if you merely focus on the head, their chiseled contour calls for some special attention to go all the hard and soft shapes just right. After all, if you get them to marshal in the correct way, you have a beautiful and graceful animal. But if a few are out of place, things but await a fiddling, well … awkward.

My new horse head tutorial offers lots of support to assist students draw a head with a graceful iii/four view and go along out a lot of the guesswork. If you lot utilise my suggested xvi box grid (you tin can either fold your paper to get them, or apply page iii of my PDF download) you'll see that lots of the horse head lines fall right on some of the guidelines. If students pay close attention to them every bit they are drawing, they volition really assistance get the size and shapes of all those curves in the right places.

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How to Draw a Horse Head Materials

  • Eraser. Large ones yous tin can hold in your hand do a much amend job than simply the pencil tips.
  • Black Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent mark pens make nice black outlines, take a good tip for coloring, and never bleed when they become wet. Use them with good ventilation and add actress paper underneath to protect your tables.
  • Prang Crayons. These are a bit softer than other crayons so they sometimes look like oil pastels. They also have a some overnice brown shades that Crayola does not have unless you buy their larger boxes.
  • Crayola Crayons. The reliable brand that always works well. The 24 pack has some of my favorite aureate orange and yellow colors that seem a scrap richer and warmer than the ones Prang has.

Step by Step Directions to Depict a Horse Head

Time needed:45 minutes.

How to Describe a Horse Head in 9 Easy Steps

  1. Draw a large center with a spot.

  2. Outset the caput as shown.

  3. Add the top of the caput and neck.

  4. Add ii ears.

  5. Depict the rima oris shape around the olfactory organ.

  6. Erase the inside line. Add together the nostril and lip line.

  7. Add a mane and back line.

  8. Erase the greyness head lines. Draw shadows with night brown crayon.

  9. Trace pencil lines with a mark and color with crayon.

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