Never saw riding boots on digitgrade legs before :D

The scenery is pretty good. Horse is, too... something seems a little off about the horse, but I have no experience around drawing them. The body to leg ratio might be off.


But honestly, its really good and I only notice the horse's "short comings" because I was specifically looking for them :D

So your average viewer probably wouldn't notice.

I have problems with the perspective to be honest, I'm not sure if it looks right. especially when I start to ink, which tends to shift the view somewhat.
the horse rump seems to be off, that's right. I might have to use a plastic horse later.

his rider is supposed to have plantigrade legs, btw. :) or else the boots would look like hoof boots. XD

thank you for your input! ^^

Oh! Hahaha I see now ... the plantigrade legs I mean :) You tend to do less extreme digigrade than most artists, so it was a little hard to tell.

With the perspective problem... it might be that in order to do what you want (specifically, to have a porch with actors on it, then a partition with another actor on the other side of it) you need to use 2 point perspective and it looks like you are using one point. If you did 2 point, you could have the partition be the meeting point of the two vanish points, then the horse would be easier to draw in the right perspective.

However that would require redoing the piece and honestly may not come out so well anyway, so I would just leave it as-is if this was my work :)

I usually orient on the original animal's length of the feet, and adjust it so it won't look too extreme. most hoofers have pretty long feet compared to upper and foreleg. if I have them walk on stilts I rather make it not too hard on them. :)

right, I used one point for it. M-ree suggested that the horse body stands wrong. I'll turn it around to the right, so it won't look like the horse is half-standing on the porch anymore. that should help.
actually I didn't want to really part the scene, more like, spread it out to the right. there isn't anything structured anyway. :)

I'll look at it again tomorrow. sometimes it helps to sleep over it.

thanks! ^^

The perspective seems odd, yeah -- the horse kinda looks to be "in" the wall :)
Also, I'd say more like a pony ;)
Everything else seems pretty fine.

I see it now. I think I'll better turn the horse's rump around to the right.

thank you! ^^

Another perspective issue is you have the vanishing point way to the left -- near the stud or whatever on the deer's tail, so it feels a bit odd (it's usually on the vertical centerline, as it's the line where they eye is supposed to be).

But I bet you know since I can see the draft lines for it.

I wanted to try somethign else. :) maybe it doesn't work out; the photo of the sheet changes some things to the bad.

I'll take a second look tomorrow. if it looks too off I'll change it. thank you! ^^

It's not off, it's odd -- because most of the time pictures and ALL uncropped photos have the vanishing point in the middle horizontally. Vertically, photos do, too, unless cropped, but pictures often have it shifted up or down.

And sometimes, it is shifted horizontally as well, which gives an interesting effect (you feel as if you are looking at the edge of the picture), feels a bit odd, but is pretty ok.

haha, okay, then. :) I'll see tomorrow how it looks like, and if I can make it work. ^^

Oh, wow - this is too much! You're so sweet, thank you! ; __ ; I'm so flattered, I seldom get gift art.... thank you thank you!
I'm squealing with delight over here. This brought so much brightness into my day. :)

wheee, then I must finish it as soon as I can, for you! ^_^