Drawing Practice: How to draw a horse

For previous drawing practice posts, learn how to draw a shark, an elephant, and a bird

Greetings friends! Today, we are going to learn how to draw one of the hardest animals out there: the HORSE.

I have had a lot of struggles in the past with drawing horses. Oftentimes, they turned out something like this:

But no more. Today, I'm going to learn the proper way to draw a beautiful horse that I can be really proud of!

We'll start by learning how to follow this guide here:

So easy, even an idiot could do it, right? Let's put that to the test! Here goes an idiot, trying to draw this horse:


ATTEMPT #1

Ummm ... okay, so ... it has a few problems. But! I think I know exactly where I went wrong. So I'm just gonna start over and see if the second one turns out better.


ATTEMPT #2

I'm already really concerned about the direction this one is headed.

Phew! I saved it by making it a psychedelic horse. Keep that trick in your pocket for when things start to go wrong for you: make it all trippy and people won't notice how bad it is. Life lessons for ya.


But I know I can do better. I just know it.


ATTEMPT #3

Whatever. Horses are stupid anyways. Does anyone even like them? No. Nobody does.



I'm not giving up, though. Because that would be wrong! So instead I'm just going to try a different tutorial. Clearly, my struggles are the tutorial's fault, not my own. So let's see if we can't draw ...

... this guy!


Personally, I can't think of a single reason why this wouldn't be an unqualified success. So off I go!

STEP 1:

Nailed the three little balls. Couldn't have done a better job. Feeling good so far.

STEP 2:

Okay, so ... little bit duckish, but I think we're still good.

STEP 3:

Uh oh.

STEP 4:

It's not good. It's not.

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F***.

You and I both know there's only one thing we can do now to save this:

And that, friends, is how you draw a horse.