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If you want to know about a horse pencil drawing or how to draw a horse, YOU've come to the right place.

Here, I'm gonna share with you, how YOU can draw a horse with graphite pencil in an easy step-by-step from simple outline sketches to a realistic pencil drawing.

Let's start...

Step No. 1
Relax... Take a deep breath... Clear your mind... Take a piece of paper (preferably a cheap photocopy paper) and a drawing pencil set. (Do you know what is a drawing pencil set? Click here)

Select a nice place to sit. Make a cup of coffee or hot chocolate if you want.

Step No. 2
Select your favorite still life drawing picture to have your pencil drawing of a horse. With that you can start a still life sketches and produce your own horse pencil drawing. Got one? Let's go to the next step...

Step No. 3

A horse

Here I choose to draw a still life horse from a still life picture. I display the picture of the horse that I chose so you are aware that I personally drew this horse.

Then, this is a step by step drawing lesson to have your own pencil drawing of a horse...

Step No. 4

Take a HB or B grade graphite pencil. Use it to draw sketches. Start by sketching two circles; one is bigger then the other. Joint the circles with a single line. And add simple line sketches to represent head, neck and feet like this...

A horse sketch 1

A horse sketch 2

Here's the magic part... Look at your still life horse picture subject and compare it with your sketch.

Ask these 2 important questions:-

1. Does it has a correct size to be on your paper?
2. Does it has a correct angle based on your position?

If the answer is NOT to any of these questions...Erase it, and re-sketch your drawing according to the correct size and angle.

Once you get that, then you can continue your next bit of sketching...

Step No. 5

Sketches simple outlines from head to tail. Erase unwanted line sketches.

A horse sketch 3

A horse sketch 4

Get it? Let's continue...

Step No. 6

A horse sketch 5

Line sketching in pencil drawing of a horse
A horse sketch 6

Toning in pencil drawing of a horse
A horse sketch 7

Now put down your HB or B grade graphite pencil and take out your 2B and 4B grade pencils. You can also use a mechanical pencil.

The next step...

Step No. 7

Toning a horse 1

Toning a horse 2

Toning in pencil drawing of a horse
Toning a horse 3

Start to create tones in your horse pencil drawing. Make your pencil drawing of a horse a realistic one!

Take note that you are drawing in a black and white pencil sketch. There will be no other color... yet you are drawing a 3D subject! So, you have to differentiate the tones to represent a 3D perspective.

You can start with any of the two pencils. I suggest you use a 2B pencil first to create fine stroke from the center to the outer part of your horse pencil drawing. Follow the contour curves of the surface to produce a depth effect.

Then, use a 4B pencil for darker tones especially the 'deeper' part (in a 3D perspective) of your subject.

Fine...

And finally...