HOW TO DRAW A WILD MUSTANG

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

• a sharp pencil with a very good eraser

• a piece of white thick art paper, (or regular paper, works too).

• some sort of coloring material, (colored pencils, paints, pastels etc.)

DRAWING

1. Use the pencil and draw a medium circle near the middle of the

page, on your white paper.

2. Draw a circle a tiny bit farther down, then the first one, and a

little to the left.

3. Make another circle about an inch upward from the 1st one you made.

4. Draw a small half circle at the bottom of the 3rd circle(a lemon shape),

5. Draw a line from the middle of the top half of the lemon, to the side of the 2nd circle

. So it looks like a small lemon inside the 3rd circle. Now erase the

of the long line made in step 5.bottom half of the lemon.

6. Make a line from the bottom of the 1st circle to about the middle

7. From the line you just made, make a small slant up, then finish the line

by connecting the slant to the corner of the half lemon.

8. Make a line to form a triangle in the top of the

3rd circle.

9. Make another triangle on the other side.

10. Draw a small circle under the bottom right triangle.

11. Make a slow line to the edge of the paper. You can decide how

thick the neck will be.

12. Draw a point in the middle of the 1st circle. Draw a point at 6:00

on the same circle.

13. Make a slightly diagonal line from the point at 6:00 to the

bottom of the paper.

14. Make a large oval, at the bottom of the line you just made.

Then erase the end of the neck line you just made.

15. Draw a curved line in the inside of the neck line you made.

16. Make a line from the point at 6:00 to the side of the 2nd circle.

17. Draw a triangle on the bottom of the 2nd circle.

18. Now smooth the triangle corner, by drawing a curved line just above

the tip of the triangle.

19. Make a curved line up for the mouth.

20. Draw a small circle for the nostril, then erase a little line from it.

21. Make a half circle shape, on the left side of the 2nd circle.

22. In the top of the 1st circle you made, make a fat lemon shape. Then

make a circle inside the lemon, with the bottom of the circle touching the

bottom of the lemon.

23. Make a dark line in the middle of the circle in the lemon.

24. Shade the rest of the circle in the lemon, except for the top bit.

Then make sure to make an eyelash over the circle inside the lemon.

25. Go back up to the triangles inside the 3rd circle. Make another triangle

inside the first one, and add fuzz to the inside, on both ears.

26. Now add hair that comes between the two ears. This hair is called

the forelock, it should come down to a little past the eyes.

27. Draw the mane now. That can just be a scribbly line on the top

line of the neck.

28. Make some small curved lines on the bottom left corner of the

right ear.

29. Make a dark line over the corner of the line you made in step #7.

Try to round the rest of your lines as well, but not darkly.

30. Erase the top half of circle #1. Erase the line in the middle

the circle made in step #10. Erase the triangle made in step #17.of the nose. Erase the top half of the line in step #5. Erase the top

half of circle #2. Erase the arch over the ears. Erase the bottom of

Erase most of the oval made in step #14.

33. Now you can put your own opinions on your drawing. If you want

to change something, go ahead do whatever you have to make your

drawing how you want it, because next is coloring!

COLORING

32. In my opinion, I think this is the classic mustang coloring,

a dun coloring, (that's what it's called,) but whatever floats your boat!

Shade the entire face, except for the mane and forelock, with a light

brown, yellow, orange, brown-orange and peach colors.

33.

35. Shade most of the eye dark brown, except for the top bit, Shade over the muzzle in black, and dark brown, lightly.

34. Shade the forelock and mane black.

that stays white.

36. Shade the nostrils gray, and a tiny bit of orange.

37. (Only if you used colored pencils.) Now go over the whole

face except for the mane and forelock with a white colored pencil.

Resources:

Boiselle, Gabrielle. Horses. New York: Fall River Press, 2009. Page 7, the beautiful dun. (A dun is a specific coloring.) I also used my drawings.