Note, in the diagram above, the rather rounded eye socket (hole). The first is a three-quarter view of the horse’s skull: I have drawn two diagrams of the horse’s head to help to illustrate how the eye is positioned. I hope that you can appreciate the roundness of the eye globe from this picture: Here is a close-up photo showing the front view of a horse’s eye. The surface of this sphere forms a rounded dome between the eyelids. The eye itself (the “globe”) is almost spherical.
Here I have scribbled a couple of charcoal sketches of horse heads to show how a dark tonal shape in the right place can by understood as a reasonably convincing eye within the head: In part 3, I shall discuss horse eye expression.įrom a little distance away, the eye appears as a shadowy form within the head, and it is the general shape of this that is most important. In part 2, I shall explain the close-up view of the eye and lids in more detail.
Today I discuss the basics of eye shape and position. However adept you are at getting the eye detail correct, the picture will not look convincing if the eye is poorly positioned. The first thing to get right when drawing a horse’s eye is to position it correctly on the head. Instead of giving you step-by-step instructions on copying a horse eye, I shall provide plenty of tips and ideas that you can apply to your own horse drawings. This post is the first of a short series on “how to draw horse eyes”.
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How to draw horse eyes, part 1 SeptemGeneral structure and position of horse eyesĪbove: Leonardo da Vinci’s “Studies of horses’ heads” c.1481, metalpoint Introduction
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