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Showing posts with label Egyptian chariot horse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egyptian chariot horse. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Day Two; Ancient Egyptian Chariot Horse Sketch
Just a short post today to give proof that I actually did a little art yesterday.
Having wasted most of the day on Facebook, I didn’t get to any art until evening. I wanted to sketch an Egyptian chariot horse since I’ve long been fascinated by that ancient culture. I spent about half an hour looking through a thick book on ancient Egypt that I picked up from the bargain table at Borders, but only found one picture of chariot horses, and it was too small to see many details. So, I just went with memory of other pictures I’ve seen.
The sketch took another half hour or more with lots of erasing to get proportions right. I didn’t worry about being accurate with tack and just enjoyed the process of sketching like I used to do as a kid. Obviously, I’m a little rusty so a lot more sketching is in order. But, it was fun, and that’s the important thing; learning to just enjoy the process again instead of enduring the drudgery of getting the image “just so”.
For now that’s enough.
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alpha mare equine art,
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Egyptian chariot horse,
horse art,
Karen Thumm,
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