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Horse Anatomy the Musclesby *COOKEcakes

Traditional Art / Drawings / Animals

BEFORE YOU USE THIS AS REF, know that this was an assignment for my animal anatomy class. I received a B- on it, lower than I was hoping for but not bad by my teacher's grading system.

I hope that it helps those of you who like drawing horses because that's the main reason why I uploaded it. There are lots of skeleton horse anatomy charts to be found on the internet, but not many good horse muscle charts, at least non very good in my findings. Mine's not perfect (I believe there is a muscle or two mislabeled), but better than most of what I was able to find in a regulra google search-I feel.

This took for frickin' evs. the labeling took longer than the drawing! Too many muscles and not enough space to fit all the labels in nicely without having to move everything 'round a bunch a times! photoshop kept bugging out on me too, saying that the file was getting too big with all the text, so i had to keep closing and reopening it and merging layers. This piece was a trip.

However, I enjoyed studying the muscle structure of the horse and trying to figure out where to place everything - even though it got frustrating at times. Dude, i had so much reference material to work from, it's ridic - too much. I got lost in all the differences from piece to piece; at times diff labeling, and varying art styles and values, muscel masses in slightly diff locations...

This was way too technical for me. This animal anatomy class has taught me that i could NEVER be a scientific artist.

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~TheEpicNewt Dec 18, 2012 Student

Nice reference, I stumbled across it while searching about on Google. Its always nice to know how things actually work when you draw them. Thanks, this is helpful.

*COOKEcakes Jan 7, 2013 Student Filmographer

thanks, glad it's helped you.

~NachoTheTrekkie Jan 9, 2013

Same case.
Thanks.

~VocalMetroid Oct 1, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Wow, you just saved me the trouble of struggling to read tiny font on another horse site. Thanks to you, my biology project goes a bit quicker!

*COOKEcakes Oct 5, 2012 Student Filmographer

glad it's being useful.

~Ragnarok6664 Sep 27, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thorough

~suneanarab Feb 5, 2012

Hi,

Excellent work! would you be willing for it to be used on a horse information site I'm building? you can mail me at suneanarab@hotmail.co.uk for details.

*COOKEcakes Feb 9, 2012 Student Filmographer

sure! that'd be cool.

i warn you though, i think 2 of the muscles are labled wrong, that or need to be switched. so if you really care, i say go through it and make sure it's all labeled correctly. i might have fixed that a while back, but i can't remember... haha.
Thanks for the heads up and good luck with the site! send me a notice when it's up and running,
-Erin Cook

~suneanarab Feb 23, 2012

that cool, thanks very much! i shall have a good look at it in detail and change anything as needs be and let you know. i'll let you know when i get it on the site and should you wish full credit details with the pic just drop them to me in email and i'll add them with the pic.

many thanks!

*Premann Jan 19, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

very nice reference... Thanks much...

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