Looking for Horse Anatomy Feedback and resources

Pav3d

Hello!

Im doing a mounted character next, so Ive been doing some horse studies in preparation, just some quick form studies to get my head around the basic proportions, here is my latest:

I would love some feedback from any equine experts here

If anyone has any good resources for horse anatomy or good examples of horse sculpture that would be very helpful!

Cheers!

carvuliero

To me look very unbalanced especially size of the head ,length of the neck and thickness of upper part of legs ,keep working on proportions also front and back of torso have specific shapes that you haven,t hit yet

I run though my books and found a few that could help  you :

Good simplifications :

Draw Hoses with Sam Savitt
How to Draw Animals Jack Hamm
How to Draw Animals Famous Artists School

Anatomy :
An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists
Animal Anatomy for Artists The Elements of Form
Nouvelle anatomie artistique Les animaux Paul Richer

Extra :
The Horse in Motion

                 

Pav3d

Exactly what I was looking for, thank you carvuliero!

Alexandriel

Here you go, man: W. Ellenberger, H. BAUM, H. DITTRICH, LEWIS S. BROWN - An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists (1956, Dover Publications). Anatomy Drawing School - Human-Animal-Comparative Anatomy [FR] (in this book you can see some poses of a cavalryman).

About proportions: horses can be of different breeds, therefore, proportions differ, it is up to you to choose the exact mount, from what I see on your sculpt:
 scapula are not enough prominent
 sternomandibularis muscle (front throat area) should not be bent inside, but outside, a little bit, like hanging if your throat would if you'd stretch your neck in front of you
 back legs and torso gap is too prominent, like skin is vacuumed, skin should be tight, but naturally, little bit loose transition
 back legs should be more powerful than front, now they are visually equal.
P.S. I have actually spent more than 700 hours on a human ecorche (anatomically correct musculoskeletal system, real-time) at this point, but don't want to publish a WIP, so it is up to you listen to me or not, man) Good luck.

Pav3d

Hey thank you for your feedback @Alexandriel thats very useful!