I decided it would be good practice to, once in a while, draw something I am not used to drawing or even that I have never drawn at all before, without any reference.

So here’s my first entry  in this series.  The only time I distinctly remember drawing a horse is when I was probably about 12 or 14 years old, and I cheated by copying a Frank Frazetta drawing.  My conscience is greatly eased by the fact that the jerk I did it for — a grown man who acted like a friend to my family and me — tricked me into labeling it in a way that looked like he’d drawn it once he cropped my signature away.  It was for a newspaper ad.

I’m sure that’s not the only time I’ve ever rendered a horse, but anyway it’s rare enough to warrant entry into this series.  And I know I have definitely never drawn a horse rearing or with an expression of fear like this one.  I guess part of the exercise is that it also has to be an interesting or dramatic image, not just a perfunctory rendering of the subject.

Horse nerds go easy on me.  I know the proportions are a bit iffy, and I was more or less faking the musculature.