Pencil Horse Drawings

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.

Have a look at my pencil horse drawings to get ideas on how to improve a sketch.

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

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.

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. Beauty in motion.

Try and 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.

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.

Sometimes, 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 have a lot of room for improvement with horse drawings.

These drawings of horses were some of the first drawings to appear on this site. It's going to be interesting when I do some more so we can compare them.

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