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With the first snow finally fallen on Smoky Ridge, everyone was excited with the Christmas spirit. Even the horses seemed to be more fresh than usual, with the frosty winter air.

Jacquelyn tacked up Guess in the crossties as he peered with bright eyes out into the white-blanketed yard. The young stallion was even more animated than usual, dancing side to side and then standing stock-still as he took in the quiet scene of the snow.

At first, she led him into the indoor ring for a light exercise, but within a few laps of trotting around it became quite apparent that Guess was not going to be behaving well without some major excitement. With every passing of the gate leading outside, he'd try to spin around and whinny to the thickly-blanketed horses who were romping in the pasture. After trying to reprimand him and getting nowhere, Jacquelyn managed to keep him quiet just long enough to open the gate.

She trotted down the lane, past the friendly neighs of the other horses until they'd reached the cross-country course. With the open snowy fields lying before them, she only needed a slight loosening of the reins and a nudging of her heel to sent Guess into a brisk canter. He tore gratefully through the banks of powdery snow, gaining speed with every stride until he was firing like a bullet underneath her. Jacquelyn couldn't suppress a delighted, light-hearted laugh, happy to be enjoying the winter as much as the young stallion was.
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FINALLY I'VE MADESOMETHING THAT I REALLY LOVE (and isn't sketchy, random, and/or half-assed)!
Sad that it's taken me exactly an entire year to draw Guess again . At least it's nice to see how much my entire has really improved (despite that I haven't worked on it AT ALL.) It's funny though, it's gotten to the point that I enjoy drawing humans on horses way more than the actual horse. It takes me ten minutes to whip up some lines that I like while it'll literally take me four hours to draw a horse that I still won't be happy with. Well, anyways.

Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you have a wonderful holiday! and those that don't celebrate Christmas, I hope you have a great winter, too!

Artwork Info
Hours spent: I don't even know, sort of a lot (6ish? on and off)
Reference(s): [click] can you tell I love her stock yet
Background: [click] but I changed some minor things
Artwork (c) ~BeauArrow

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This artwork is copyrighted to me. It is not to be traced, copied, stolen, manipulated, or used in any way by anyone except for me. Theft of my artwork is illegal and you WILL be reported. I don't steal your art, please don't steal mine!

Description
With the first snow finally fallen on Smoky Ridge, everyone was excited with the Christmas spirit. Even the horses seemed to be more fresh than usual, with the frosty winter air.

Jacquelyn tacked up Guess in the crossties as he peered with bright eyes out into the white-blanketed yard. The young stallion was even more animated than usual, dancing side to side and then standing stock-still as he took in the quiet scene of the snow.

At first, she led him into the indoor ring for a light exercise, but within a few laps of trotting around it became quite apparent that Guess was not going to be behaving well without some major excitement. With every passing of the gate leading outside, he'd try to spin around and whinny to the thickly-blanketed horses who were romping in the pasture. After trying to reprimand him and getting nowhere, Jacquelyn managed to keep him quiet just long enough to open the gate.

She trotted down the lane, past the friendly neighs of the other horses until they'd reached the cross-country course. With the open snowy fields lying before them, she only needed a slight loosening of the reins and a nudging of her heel to sent Guess into a brisk canter. He tore gratefully through the banks of powdery snow, gaining speed with every stride until he was firing like a bullet underneath her. Jacquelyn couldn't suppress a delighted, light-hearted laugh, happy to be enjoying the winter as much as the young stallion was.
______________________________________________

FINALLY I'VE MADESOMETHING THAT I REALLY LOVE (and isn't sketchy, random, and/or half-assed)!
Sad that it's taken me exactly an entire year to draw Guess again . At least it's nice to see how much my entire has really improved (despite that I haven't worked on it AT ALL.) It's funny though, it's gotten to the point that I enjoy drawing humans on horses way more than the actual horse. It takes me ten minutes to whip up some lines that I like while it'll literally take me four hours to draw a horse that I still won't be happy with. Well, anyways.

Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you have a wonderful holiday! and those that don't celebrate Christmas, I hope you have a great winter, too!

Artwork Info
Hours spent: I don't even know, sort of a lot (6ish? on and off)
Reference(s): [click] can you tell I love her stock yet
Background: [click] but I changed some minor things
Artwork (c) ~BeauArrow

_________________________

This artwork is copyrighted to me. It is not to be traced, copied, stolen, manipulated, or used in any way by anyone except for me. Theft of my artwork is illegal and you WILL be reported. I don't steal your art, please don't steal mine!