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~ Completed on May 27th, 2011 ~

Again I started sketching in a journal meant for writing (and not any erasing since the paper lifts so easily!). The underlying graphite sketch is about 3.5x2 inches large, and I decided to toss it into Photoshop for a quick once-over to add just a hint of color (and add a bit more detail to it than my pencil allowed at that size). This was perhaps three or four hours of work.

These are two of my personal characters in one of those sweet poses that makes me think of those photobooths where you can get photos or super colorful and gaudy stickers with you "BFF."

Not that you can fit a horse in one of those.

I had about ten assorted reference pictures of horses and people sitting out for me, but in the end when I went to actually sit down away from my computer and sketch, none of them ended up being truly strong enough for solid reference for the pose I ended up with (I blame my stubborn muse who was insisting the horse needed a hug!), so I'd probably consider this a "almost entirely out of my head but with touches of casual reference."

The three ended up using primarily for this were:

[link] - I looked at her face now and then when sketching to make sure the planes of the face on my own figure weren't entirely shoddy.
[link] - This lady has some AMAZING stock, but I still haven't really sat down and used any of it, but the costume on here was definitely influenced by her dress.
[link] - I used this to try and figure out how the dress would fall over the horse and rider and some of how the tack might fall as well as the basic proportions on the horse's head.

I find that if I don't have at least a vague reference of a horse, my proportions tend to skew in odd ways. As you can probably tell though, none of them were what I'd consider "strongly" referenced. Had I been at home I probably would have tried to find more photos with riders leaning like that so I could make sure the proportions and placement were correct.

Description
~ Completed on May 27th, 2011 ~

Again I started sketching in a journal meant for writing (and not any erasing since the paper lifts so easily!). The underlying graphite sketch is about 3.5x2 inches large, and I decided to toss it into Photoshop for a quick once-over to add just a hint of color (and add a bit more detail to it than my pencil allowed at that size). This was perhaps three or four hours of work.

These are two of my personal characters in one of those sweet poses that makes me think of those photobooths where you can get photos or super colorful and gaudy stickers with you "BFF."

Not that you can fit a horse in one of those.

I had about ten assorted reference pictures of horses and people sitting out for me, but in the end when I went to actually sit down away from my computer and sketch, none of them ended up being truly strong enough for solid reference for the pose I ended up with (I blame my stubborn muse who was insisting the horse needed a hug!), so I'd probably consider this a "almost entirely out of my head but with touches of casual reference."

The three ended up using primarily for this were:

[link] - I looked at her face now and then when sketching to make sure the planes of the face on my own figure weren't entirely shoddy.
[link] - This lady has some AMAZING stock, but I still haven't really sat down and used any of it, but the costume on here was definitely influenced by her dress.
[link] - I used this to try and figure out how the dress would fall over the horse and rider and some of how the tack might fall as well as the basic proportions on the horse's head.

I find that if I don't have at least a vague reference of a horse, my proportions tend to skew in odd ways. As you can probably tell though, none of them were what I'd consider "strongly" referenced. Had I been at home I probably would have tried to find more photos with riders leaning like that so I could make sure the proportions and placement were correct.