A soft pencil is preferable as the delicate mid-tones can easily be expressed by a few soft strokes from the nib. You don’t have to add water to it, but use it for shading. I was careful not to allow the chalk pencil to go over the darker areas, which I expressed with a mid-toned pencil. If experiencing difficulty in drawing the outline of the horse’s head trace the main features or use an enlarger. A hard nib could create unwanted impressions on the paper a soft pencil could make mistakes difficult to erase. I applied light strokes via a sharpened HB pencil. Turning the photo and the drawing paper upside down will help make the task a little easier. A negative shape is the shape of the background around the subject matter itself. Within this frame, negative shapes will be easier to make out. It might help to draw a faint rectangle on the page in order to ‘frame’ this shape. Step One: Drawing the Horse’s Negative Shapesįirstly view the horse’s head outline as an irregular shape rather than as a horse’s head. This will reveal the horse hair and detail in the eyes. Get reasonably close up and ensure the focusing is spot-on. Avoid shooting into the light or of taking the photograph on a misty day or poor light. An image of a horse head under good quality light will reveal contours of the horse’s face. Some grey papers have a slight texture such as Ingress paper. Grey paper or any mid-toned paper can be used.Black, dark grey, cream and a white chalk pencil will provide an array of shading tones and highlights for grey paper. Watercolour pencils or graphite pencils of 2B to 4B are also ideal for shading. For this drawing exercise, the following art materials was used: More time will be required if undertaking a horse painting. When it comes to drawing anything that presents a fair amount of detail such as a horse, setting aside at least an hour or so of uninterrupted time will increase the likelihood of a satisfactory drawing.
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