Strutting His Stuff

BMa Wald, the Jutland stallion (that I wish was real and a part of an extensive Jutland breeding program...) strutting his stuff in the halter class of ~bovidaeloony's Rare Breed Show.

I attempted to find some videos on YouTube that had Jutlands and found a sparse handful. I admit their natural action is a bit flatter, but I'd inked the drawing already at that point so we'll call it artistic license, or perhaps there was a pretty lady at the show that he was feeling he needed to impress.

Chris says he still has a bit of a Haflinger face, but that's okay, we'll survive. I'm still earning draft horse anatomy and facial structure.

Drawn with Staedtler and Micron pens and colored with Derwent's Studio colored pencils, the set of twelve on 9"x12" drawing paper. I have some reservations about these pencils, it takes forever to get anything very rich and you absolutely have to layer with these, there's no getting around it, the singular colors just look flat and lifeless. I know some people like light and airy colored pencil pieces and it works well in some aspects, but I like contrast. Of course it could just be that I was using the set of twelve rather than a full range and at that there is hardly any use of the color black (smidge on his hooves and muzzle and one soft layer for the seath, but I don't think you can really count that), but I still don't really like using the color black; it's a bit of a dead (non)color and doesn't do much to enhance what it overlays or underlays.

Artistic ramble aside I am rather happy with it and have enjoyed working in colored pencils again.

Original for sale, note me if interested.