Drawing: Horses by Walter Foster

Drawing: Horses by Walter Foster ISBN-13: 9781633227712 Paperback: 40 pages Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing Released: May 7, 2019

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
Drawing: Horses shows you how to render a variety of beautiful horses in graphite pencil, with tips on choosing materials, building with basic shapes, and shading to develop form and realism. Walter Foster (with assistance from Michele Maltseff) explains not only a number of drawing techniques and special effects but also his own method of developing a drawing. You will learn about various horse breeds—including quarter horse, Clydesdale, Arabian, and Shetland pony—and their proportions, starting with their heads and then progressing to full bodies. Drawing: Horses also contains beautiful equine drawings you can both copy and admire!

Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers an easy-to-follow guide that introduces artists to basic tools and materials and includes simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. Drawing: Horses demonstrates how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and shading techniques to create varied values and details for a realistic, completed drawing.


My Review:
Drawing: Horses is a short art book providing tips on how to draw horses with graphite pencils. It's for beginners, but the author assumed that you know the basics of drawing. The book briefly talked about tools and techniques and horse anatomy. It then provided examples of different facial features (eyes, ears, nose) and hooves from different view points along with some tips about drawing them. There were drawings of horses in various poses with brief tips about how to draw a foal, two poses for an adult horse, four different breeds (Quarter Horse, Clydesdale, Arabian, Shetland pony) from different points of view, three poses of horses and riders in different gear, two poses of a horse galloping, two poses of a horse (and rider) jumping a fence, a polo pony and Western horse with their riders.

This book focused more on tips on unique points to pay attention to for the different ages, breeds, and poses rather than detailed step-by-step demonstrations. However, it did provide the basic steps to drawing a head and a few steps (outline, add details, add shading, finished horse) for most of the horse drawings with brief comments about things like the direction of your strokes. I'd recommend this book to artists who want some help specifically with drawing horses.


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