An illustrated discussion surrounding a photo of a horse's head focuses on the process of breaking down a seemingly complex subject into simple shapes.

Preview lesson B10 - Seeing Shapes of a Horse's Head

Great lesson, throughly enjoyed it. I notice Brenda has now included a challenge, great idea but I didn't do it.

I cannot seem to do the mane on the forehead properly....the rest of it has been great!
i plan to take the challenge later though!

Here's my attempt.
My wife thought he looked like Mr. Ed
I think he looks lopsided.

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I have injoyed a close look at the shapes of the hores head i have a fun time on this lesson.

Here is my attempt at this lesson! At least you can tell it's a horse!

Just finished mine and I have to say it came out pretty good

Well, I was enjoying this lesson. I wasn't doing an amazing job, but I thought I was doing ok.

My 3 year old daughter waited for me to walk away from the art table, and then decided to show me how it should be done.



Heh! Kids are a blessing sometimes.

Dear Dusty,

Thanks for the giggle! You both did a great job with the drawing!

Many years ago, I had one of my completed portrait commissions set up nicely on my drafting desk, all ready to show the client. When I was out of the room, my then 3-year-old daughter decided to add a few final touches with a colored pencil. Thankfully, she missed the facial section; I simply erased what I could, and added a lovely background with creative crosshatching graduations.

Today my daughter has two children of her own; as they get older, I will take great delight in telling them this story about their Mom!

Hence, please make sure you keep this drawing in a safe place! Revenge is sweet (and a lot of fun)!

Brenda

I used to say that I had trouble drawing stick people. I'm very excited that you can tell it's a horse!

Wow! I guess it’s a good thing you are such a talented artist and could fix the issue.
Oh and I will remind her of this often over the next few years. And keep the picture out of affection for her.

Anyhow, here is the horses head, part 2 . The nose is a bit out I think:


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And the attempt at the second horses head in the tutorial, I think the eye is wrong on this one a bit:


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All comments (constructive ones) welcome.

Hi this is my very first attempt since my younger age I really enjoyed it!

My attemp at drawing the horse's head + hores's neck + background + name + date + frame
i've mainly put effort in the horse part

brilliant lesson. i will upload my effort of both the exercise and the challenge when i get a scanner - learnt a lot of techniques!

Here's my first post and first try
Theresa
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My horse didn't came as good as I wanted. Great, super and beautiful lesson though!
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just discovered this website and i love it! just started following the lessons and here my 1st drawing...
the eyes have always been a pb for me, so am really proud of my right one, not the left.... Just can't wait for the next lessons

Dear Sir and Madame,

First and foremost, I owe a big thanks to you, Miss Brenda Hoddinott, and those whom dedicated their time and effort to Drawspace.com~~

To provide a series of such valuable lesson to everyone for free, I think it's not only noble but also altruistic~~ way to go~ thanks a lot~

I've followed the lessons but I haven't brought any drawing tools yet.... but after this sketch practice, with the satisfaction and enjoyment in the process~~ I will go buy some drawing papers (soon~) and will definitely recommend Drawspace.com to everyone who like drawing! ~~



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When I started this drawing, I thought: 'Oh god, this will never work out properly with those sticks!'. I was all wrong, it's a really great way to make the shapes of the horse head. Thank you, Brenda, for this wonderful lesson! Thanks to you, I've started drawing again!

Here is my drawing; I have to say, one of my best in the last months!

Kind regards,
Fabian

Heyy Brenda,

I'm probably the most active 13 year old on this site, lol I love your drawings and this tutorial is great. I loved it. So yea.. Heres my work for you.. I hope you like it.. Its not as good as my other horses though, I had ALOT of stuff on my mind.

-Veronic.aa

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Dear Mjuuzike,

Omg the eyes of ur horse are beutiful! I love the way you draw the hach lines near the left of the horses head. and than the eyelashes on the horses eyes. i just love it! I need some help on hach lines, maybe you should help me out one day anyways yea. ill be going now. luv ur drawing xoxo.

-veronic.aa

wow, i actually drew a beautiful horse! at least it seems so to me.. It had been ages since I picked up a pencil for sketching.. It felt really nice! thanks a ton Brenda, for your lessons and making them so simple!!

This is an absolutely wonderful site. I have just joined and I was browsing around. I love to draw horses and I am still wondering how drawspace works. It looks like there are different classes that are running at any given time?

Check out "general discussions" in the forums for information and challenges.

Im going to practice this one over and over, great results first time, I didn't think i could do it!. Thanks Brenda

I did it!

So what do you guy's think?

I think i'll try the challenge sometime soon!

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[attachmentid=7186]I really enjoyed this lesson. Here's my drawing...

In all honesty, at first I was thinking "Ugh. A horse. Why would I possibly want to draw a horse?" BUT I gave it a shot nonetheless and that hour and half just became one of the most fulfilling I've spent in weeks.

It turned out great! I can't believe I did it.

Thank you so much!

I am so happy to have discovered you, Brenda!! I'm 34yo and since my childhood I haven't drawn a single smiley face until 3 weeks ago, when I started dreaming about drawing (I swear!!). After 10 days in a row with the crazy dreaming, I decided to take some action and started looking on the net for free resources - who knows if I would even like drawing!! - and there you were! I don't think my horse is very proportional, anyway, I just LOVE your lessons, and you must really be a wonderful person to put on with all this work for us!

GREAT WORK!!!

PS: Love your cartoons, too!

Thank you!

Manuela

I am new to drawing and these lessons are great. I have drawn some cartoons from other drawing web sites with step by step directions, but the horse's profile is the first things I have drawn with only a picture. I am just happy they look like a horse. I have a long ways to go before I am good but I am having a great time doing it. Here are my horse drawings.

Gave it a try... I enjoyed that lesson!

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using my parents' digital camera to post these currently. will probably put up a scanned version when i get back to school.

I think the face is a little long (of course it is, its a horse ) and the eyes may be a bit big/high up. other than that i'm fairly happy with it.

i think i'm gonna go back and post a few of the earlier lessons i did and then continue on to the second horse.

i'm loving this site so far. tons of information at a great price

edit: just finished the challenge horse. added it to the post

edit2: got back to school to my scanner. better now

Hey everybody

This is a great Tutorial..Thank you Brenda
And this is my Horse..

I hope you like my horse

Greetins from Germany

Trinity

I am so glad that I found this site! I've never thought I could draw, couldn't even do justice to a stick figure. Except yesterday evening I drew a HORSE and I was thrilled with him. I put him in my gallery so I'd have something in there :-)

I did the challenge horse in the lesson and posted him to my gallery also. This is so much *fun*!!!

My first lesson

My horse it's not perfect but it's my first horse hahaha!

Hello DrawSpace Folk.

Here's my first lesson, first submission. Never had any art training, although I really like to sketch. So looking forward to building some skill.

And such I had fun at the exercise... I did the challenge as well.

TJ

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this is my first horse

Here are my horseys

This is my first post and my first drawing on this website. I'm open to your commentary!

And it's upside down!!!

just finished this lesson, much happier with the first horse then the challange

Well, I went from drawing a stick figure to this in just 3 days At least you can tell it is a horse! I will definitely have to work on proportions and shading a lot more.

This is my first attempt at the Horse's head. I thoroughly enjoyed the excercise. I am excited to move ahead towards more advanced topics.

My horse
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and horse from side

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My attempt at the horse's head. When I first saw it, I was thinking no way I can draw this. But.. you can see the result

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this lesson was a challenge itself and I'm ok with my horse thank you Brenda

I tried coloring mine in.

Yes, it looks like he is wearing a toupee. What?! It could happen...

Okay - here is my attempt at the challenge. I did the first drawing twice and both drawings look like it fell out of the ugly tree and hit a few branches on the way down. So I'll stick with the one that I'm proud of!

Oh and I have to add - I stumbled on this site two weeks ago. I started reading and before you know it I was scratching for a pencil. It took 4 days to get to a shop to buy proper paper but my husband must see talent as he went and bought me A3 drawing paper for my Rhino pic (Completed 10/06/08). (I'll post this in the appropriate spot - once I find it)

This was a fun lesson. I had never attempted to draw a horse before because I thought it too difficult. Breaking it down by shapes makes this project much simpler. I still have a ways to go with shading techniques though.
The Horse Head Challenge was even tougher, and I'm not too happy with the outcome, but here it is anyway.