Pencil Horse Drawings

This drawing template will assist you in drawing several pencil horse drawings. With each drawing, you will notice an improvement on the previous one.

If you want easy horse drawings to copy, I hope you find them here. They must be easy enough - I did these at the beginning, when I first started drawing.

This template is done in ink so it will print with a dark outline for you.

It is such a pleasure doing drawings of horses.

They are simply beautiful creatures and their docile nature shows through in the drawings.

Horses have their own personalities and are known to have good memories. Just like domestic animals, horses can be trained to perform tricks.

It's an interesting exercise to do pencil horse drawings. I have looked at many drawing books and each book gives you different ideas on how to draw a horse.

The basic idea is to envisage the shapes that make up the horse. So the head would be a cone shape, the neck and body are cylinders, the legs a couple of thin cones with a break for the joints.

I do the shapes for practice and then looking at a picture, I sketch in the outline of the horse around the shapes.

My pencil horse drawings could use some improvement, these were some of my very first drawings yet I am still proud of them.

Shading is very important in every drawing. I like doing pencil sketches because I have the flexibility to erase any shading or lines that look out of place.

Shade heavily around the joints to cast a shadow.

Now that I look at this old drawing, I can see that I could have used a blending stump to make the shading look more authentic. I am leaving it here to show you so you don't feel badly when you start to draw. We all have to start somewhere and it's amazing how much you learn as you go along.

When you draw a horse trotting, the horse moves diagonal feet at the same time. That means the right rear foot and left front foot hit the ground simultaneously.

Sometime during a full stride, all four feet are off the ground. That's beauty in motion. As you get more experienced, you could try to capture that magnificient sight when you do some drawings of horses.

Plus, putting a shadow on the ground on all your horse drawings makes them look more realistic and not just put there on a piece of paper.

When you start learning to draw, adding that shadow is a great habit to get into with every drawing you do. It's something that I didn't do initially and now I have to remind myself to include it.

I love to draw and sometimes I just can't get it right. It's a good idea to wait a day or two, then take another look at your drawing. It's amazing what a clear mind does to help you along your artistic way.

Usually, after some time has lapsed, errors will jump right out at you, things you didn't see when you were "involved" in your drawing.

Be careful though, sometimes you can also mess up the whole drawing - this has happened to me. Now, I tend to start another drawing and learn from the mistakes in the previous drawing.

Have a go at doing some pencil horse drawings, I think you will surprise yourself. If I can do it, you can. I still have a lot of room for improvement with horse drawings.

When you consider that these drawings of horses were some of the first drawings to appear on this site, they're not too bad for somebody who was just starting out. I want you to go easy on yourself and don't expect miracles straight away. It doesn't matter what you do, it takes time to perfect anything.

It's going to be interesting when I continue drawing horses so we can compare them with the ones that I have done here.

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