roachpatrol:bad centaurs really bug me so i thought i’d toss up a real quick, non-comprehensiv
roachpatrol:bad centaurs really bug me so i thought i’d toss up a real quick, non-comprehensive guide to my preferred proportions for the cuties! i’m not a horse expert by any means but i do like them a lot, so! here’s some things i’ve noticed a lot of artists get confused about when they first start drawing horse bits:THIN LEGS. you can’t give a horse legs as thick as a human. they have skinny skinny bony legs, which works because said bones are sturdy as heck. also note the back heel and the front wrist are just about on the same line, with the heel a little above the wrist, and that the legs narrow even more dramatically after this division. the legs also join the body pretty much at elbow and knee. don’t continue the limbs up that far into the trunk! ROUND BODY. do not reference your dog for this! i see this a lot but horses and dogs have totally different digestive systems, and you can’t draw a horse with a trim little grayhound stomach. athletic horses do have stomachs that tuck up towards the hips, but you want to use big sweeping curves for their torsos no matter what. you can’t be scared to draw some hefty round horses. HALF AND HALF: if the human parts are human size, the horse parts are going to be pony size. run a line through the barrel of the horse’s torso and check your proportions. if the horse parts are horse size, the human parts should be bigger to match. don’t draw a great big horse body and than a human torso the size of a rider just moved up to the front. WEIRD FRONT: the bit between human navel and horse pecs is always, always gonna look strange, even when the head-to-hooves length is right, because the forelegs come out about an extra butt’s length below where human legs would come out. i don’t think there’s any kind of solution for this, you just gotta push through it. the only solution to being bad at horses is draw lots of horses. good luck. -- source link
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