How To Draw A Horse Rider

Good day dear beginners and professional artists and welcome to a new drawing lesson of Drawing For All on how to draw a horseman. As you can see, it’s going to be quite a difficult task to draw a horseman, especially one riding over an obstacle, but we have full confidence that our readers can deal with this drawing lesson.

Step 1

Contents

At first we want to outline the horse’s head, then draw the long line of the backbone. On this line are placed the ribcage and pelvis. Next, draw the limbs of our horse. Pay attention to the bends of the limbs. Outline the rider’s head and spine, on which are the ribcage and pelvis. Also with the help of simple lines we draw the rider’s arms and feet.

Step 2

Now let’s add some flesh to the driver figure. Outline the shape of the body like in our example. Next, use the balls to outline the shoulders and knees. With the help of cylinders, sketch the arms and legs of our driver. Read more: The best way to clean your NES cartridge.

Step 3

Now let’s work with the figure of the horse. First outline the muzzle and ears. Next, outline the neck, extending to the chest. Sketch the horse’s long torso. Outline the front and rear legs. To learn more about horses, visit our horse drawing lessons.

Step 4

Now let’s outline the main details on the body of the horse and rider. First of all, we draw a helmet, outline of the rider’s face, and outline of the rider’s outfit. Now switch to the horse and outline our horse’s eyes, nose, mouth and fur. Next, outline the reins in the rider’s hand and saddle, on the tail draw hair lines.

Step 5

At this point we finish drawing the horseman figure. Let’s start with the top and move down. Draw the outline of the helmet and the facial features. Next, carefully draw the outlines of the rider’s clothing with clear and dark lines and remove all unnecessary guides.

Step 6

Now let’s work with the details of the horse’s body. Carefully draw out all the necessary contours on the horse’s body, detailing all the parts of the body and removing all unnecessary instructions. If you think in this lesson the principles of drawing a horse are not covered in detail, visit the horse lesson.

Step 7

If you look at your drawing and understand that you’re happy with it, i.e. there’s nothing to edit, it means it’s time to work on the shadows. After defining the light source, we need to place shadows on those parts of our artboard where the light doesn’t fall. It is more convenient to take the pencil in hand and begin to bloom.Today we showed you how to draw a horseman. Pay attention to the horse’s posture, as it is quite complicated. Note that you can draw the obstacle the horse jumps over. We also recommend learning how to draw a horseman in various poses, using photos of equestrians from the Internet. There is another very important piece of advice that we often give in our articles on drawing. You can check all the proportions of your drawing by simply bringing it to the mirror, and then all the flaws and dishonesty in the drawing will be very noticeable. Read more: How to draw an axolotl