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In all honesty, I think that you should take a picture of a moving horse that you like along with the picture you've drawn, and find a tattoo artist who as done animal-type work before. Ask them to turn what you have into a more realistically proportioned line drawing. A good artist will give you one or two options (maybe more!) and transfer a mock-up of the tattoo on to your arm so that you can critique it and make it "just so" before they start inking!
What you have sketched reminds me of the ford mustang logo a bit. Not sure if you intended for that or not. I know it is different, but the flowing mane and line drawing has a similar feel to me.
What you have sketched reminds me of the ford mustang logo a bit. Not sure if you intended for that or not. I know it is different, but the flowing mane and line drawing has a similar feel to me.
Hahahaha oh my goodness it does! :P definitely a crazy horsey car girl :P
Thank you everyone for your advice! I really appreciate it :) Posted via Mobile Device
My first bit of advice is to not draw it yourself unless you are a experienced artist. I would suggest commissioning an artist to draw one for you. But if you really want to draw your own, here is my advice:
First I took your drawing and made a very rough sketch here:
I would suggest studying the musculature of the equine form, I suggest some simple bone and body anatomy reference studies: (De)Constructing the Arabian Head by *Ehetere on deviantART / Horse Skeleton by ~Tikall on deviantART / Equine Proportions by =ElaineSeleneStock on deviantART / Horse Muscles Anatomy by *DarkKenjie on deviantART
Deviantart.com is great tool.
Then combining your reference pages find a photography of a horse running, and carefully reconstruct the shapes within the image while following the general horse shape. Your can see how I have done this in my sketch some notable examples looking at my sketch, (which could be refined to a much higher degree but I kept is simple)are the neck and shoulder shapes, as well as the head attachment which is slightly lacking in your drawing. Also notice the rear legs, yours go straight, while a horses have a triangular hock.
But I put yours next to mine so you can see the differences yourself, Hope I helped a bit. I'd be glad to answer and questions.
For further reference of what I mean by refining the sketch which I think is what you need to do, here is fully refined (or fully fixed & edited lining) of my own:
This started as what I have exampled as a sketch for yours and I kept using smaller and more exact lines until it became acceptable to my own artistic vision.
:)
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