Yesterday, 06:17 PM
I really do recommend just working on very basic primitive construction if you want to incorporate more animal in your work
Just using those simple construction and giving orientation to them you will get a much faster transition to the final detail and it also great because at that point it just very none commiting to adjust the proportion instead of trying to nail the detail right away which are honest just the muscle that connect one ''section'' to an other to put it in simple term not to get bug down by anatomical complexity. I also like this approach of thinking of the body in term of unit because it kind of create a visual picture of mass which help give balance and gesture to the subject as we build them.
Thinking of the head, limb, pelvis, spine and the direction of the feet establish already a great deal of the weight balance relation.
This how it look when the sketch is almost ready for polish the form is define and you get a sense of how the neck side on the frame.
I recommend to use national geographic video because it the closest thing to going to a zoo or like professional horse jumping competition for reference because of the type of movement you envisioned. Being able to understand the difference in movement between biped and quadruped is not necessary but it doesn't hurt to invest time specially since horse are so often portrait in art.
Just using those simple construction and giving orientation to them you will get a much faster transition to the final detail and it also great because at that point it just very none commiting to adjust the proportion instead of trying to nail the detail right away which are honest just the muscle that connect one ''section'' to an other to put it in simple term not to get bug down by anatomical complexity. I also like this approach of thinking of the body in term of unit because it kind of create a visual picture of mass which help give balance and gesture to the subject as we build them.
Thinking of the head, limb, pelvis, spine and the direction of the feet establish already a great deal of the weight balance relation.
This how it look when the sketch is almost ready for polish the form is define and you get a sense of how the neck side on the frame.
I recommend to use national geographic video because it the closest thing to going to a zoo or like professional horse jumping competition for reference because of the type of movement you envisioned. Being able to understand the difference in movement between biped and quadruped is not necessary but it doesn't hurt to invest time specially since horse are so often portrait in art.