Easy Drawing of a Horse

Horses are fabulous animals with lots of details, but our drawing will not have that many details so it will be ideal for beginners, so let's draw.

Here is the horse, we will be drawing it using white pastel pencil and black paper, with a black charcoal pencil to correct any mistakes we make.

To get your copy of the horse, go to Pixabay and search for:

Black and White Horse

Then download it.

Using your white pastel pencil, holding it on it's side, lightly draw in circles on your black paper.

Then taking your blending tool, holding it on it's side, smooth over the colour until it looks blended.

We will do this on the whole of the background smoothing as we go, don't worry too much about what it looks like at this point.

Keep drawing and blending all the way around the horse down to the bottom.

Remember this is the first layer so it will look messy, but we have many more layers to do and we can improve it as we go.

Notice how we have left the horses mane black for the moment, we will be adding the mane later.

Keep blending all the way down, don't worry about the horse at this stage, we will fix the horse later.

Carry on blending down to the bottom and blend in-between the horses legs.

When you have finished blending the white, it should look similar to this.

Using your blender, go over the horses nose very lightly, this part must not stand out.

Blending The Bottom

Cover the bottom of the drawing with white pastel and blend.

We want the bottom to be darker than the top so only add very light layers until you get the colour you want.

Once you have finished the bottom, blend it upwards slightly over the horses legs so it look like the horse is kicking up dust from the ground.

It looks quite messy at the moment, but it will improve as we go.

Sharpen your white pastel pencil to draw the horses mane.

With your white pastel, add the horses mane with quite strong thin strokes as we need it to stand out from the background.

Add a few strokes on the horses back, we will blend them out later.

Now go over the background with another layer of white pastel.

We are not blending this layer, just leave it as drawn.

With your white pastel pencil come down into the mane very lightly to get rid of the darks.

With your white pastel, add more white strokes to the main and using your black pencil add some small black strokes near the horses neck.

Add some black strokes to show the tail on the inside and outside of the back legs.

Draw using the white pastel inside the middle of the horses legs and in-between the front legs.

Using the black pencil refine the horses body so the white marks do not show as much, also do this on the legs and chest.

Once you have added the final layer of white to the background, use your black pencil to tidy up the horse and refine the edges.

Your drawing should be looking good, so there is just one thing left to do and that is to add your signature.