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soooo after my long absence I came back and kind of forgot how how to draw lol. I looked over my individual breed conformations that I have in my gallery (located here ) and I don't really like them. irl horse breeds are pretty much all the same at first glance unless you have a shire next to a shetland pony. those subtle "if you look close and know what to look for..." fine details are for actual photos of real horses (or better yet, actually being there next to the horse in real life) and for people who are experts on such things, like show judges and whatever. in art that's pretty useless since for any of those subtle little differences to matter, the art would have to be 100% exactly precise every time, so people know the shape of this or the size of that was on purpose and not just general mistakes. I don't like being that precise.

I like caricatures, though I am crap at drawing them, but I suppose you never get anywhere if you don't start somewhere. I like the idea of the different breeds having their trademark traits exaggerated, with endless variables added for each individual character such as gender, weight/fitness, age, conformation faults, the personal style of whoever they belong to, etc. this relies on people viewing the picture to realize it's a cartoon and not meant to be taken literally. at first I had hesitations because of the way people are reacting to Arabians nowadays and getting offended at the "modern look" which appears to have all the traditional traits exaggerated for real in real life on actual "deformed for real" real horses rather than cartoon-style art. but a correct arabian actually has a straight profile with a bump on the forehead, and exaggerating that does not result in the concave 'dished face" people are upset about in real arabians. other than that though, I don't know, I'll just have to have faith that people can tell it's supposed to look like a toon and not a photo-real literal depiction. I would like to have some characters with intentionally bad conformation and faults, and have those also exaggerated, so you can tell the "beautiful fine-breeding specimens" apart from the "low-quality nags" within the same art style. after all I suppose not all of them should be perfect, especially if some of them are supposed to be getting rescue horses rather than purchasing from quality breeders.

so I condensed my notes down to just these basic shapes for the main breeds I'm planning to focus on and decided that crossbreeds should just choose whichever parent breed they take after most (for example just qh/arab/tb, instead of qh/arab/tb/anglo-arab/quarab/appendix qh), or have traits mix-and-matched for individuals like maybe a tb/qh with the angular upright tb head on the chunky qh body if that character is supposed to look like a clunky crossbreed instead of a fine high-quality purebred. ideas like that only work if the original breeds are exaggerated enough to recognize, otherwise "a horse is a horse."

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soooo after my long absence I came back and kind of forgot how how to draw lol. I looked over my individual breed conformations that I have in my gallery (located here ) and I don't really like them. irl horse breeds are pretty much all the same at first glance unless you have a shire next to a shetland pony. those subtle "if you look close and know what to look for..." fine details are for actual photos of real horses (or better yet, actually being there next to the horse in real life) and for people who are experts on such things, like show judges and whatever. in art that's pretty useless since for any of those subtle little differences to matter, the art would have to be 100% exactly precise every time, so people know the shape of this or the size of that was on purpose and not just general mistakes. I don't like being that precise.

I like caricatures, though I am crap at drawing them, but I suppose you never get anywhere if you don't start somewhere. I like the idea of the different breeds having their trademark traits exaggerated, with endless variables added for each individual character such as gender, weight/fitness, age, conformation faults, the personal style of whoever they belong to, etc. this relies on people viewing the picture to realize it's a cartoon and not meant to be taken literally. at first I had hesitations because of the way people are reacting to Arabians nowadays and getting offended at the "modern look" which appears to have all the traditional traits exaggerated for real in real life on actual "deformed for real" real horses rather than cartoon-style art. but a correct arabian actually has a straight profile with a bump on the forehead, and exaggerating that does not result in the concave 'dished face" people are upset about in real arabians. other than that though, I don't know, I'll just have to have faith that people can tell it's supposed to look like a toon and not a photo-real literal depiction. I would like to have some characters with intentionally bad conformation and faults, and have those also exaggerated, so you can tell the "beautiful fine-breeding specimens" apart from the "low-quality nags" within the same art style. after all I suppose not all of them should be perfect, especially if some of them are supposed to be getting rescue horses rather than purchasing from quality breeders.

so I condensed my notes down to just these basic shapes for the main breeds I'm planning to focus on and decided that crossbreeds should just choose whichever parent breed they take after most (for example just qh/arab/tb, instead of qh/arab/tb/anglo-arab/quarab/appendix qh), or have traits mix-and-matched for individuals like maybe a tb/qh with the angular upright tb head on the chunky qh body if that character is supposed to look like a clunky crossbreed instead of a fine high-quality purebred. ideas like that only work if the original breeds are exaggerated enough to recognize, otherwise "a horse is a horse."