Original Art: Dashing Through the Snow

[honorat]

by Honorat

Summary: My very own Seasonal Art! No Photo References. A sleighride through a forest. Again, the universe is twisted where I draw--no particular time or place.




Copyright 1998. All rights reserved.
8 1/2 x 11 inches, mechanical graphite pencil 0.5mm B on printer paper.

Comments

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

Oh this is beautiful! I love the horses. It must have taken you forever to achieve that dapple-gray look.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. Horses have always been my favourite thing to draw. Dappling is actually not that hard--just scribbling little circlish shapes in graduated sizes and values.

[lise-ann.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful!!!

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[landratte.livejournal.com]

Wow, that picture makes me insanely envious not to live somewhere where snow looks that pretty! For some reason I am most fascinated by the snow-covered fir trees but the women and horses are amazing too. The only thing that feels a bit off to me is the town in the background. Maybe missing snow? I don't really know...

As always I am in total awe before your talent.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the lovely comment. I've certainly lived around plenty of snow. It is beautiful when one is dressed for the weather. As for the background town, since I never know what these pictures are going to turn out to be, I tend to break a lot of scientific laws. I'd never noticed the lack of snow on the roofs. You're right. That would improve it.

[hendercats.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! The horses are beautiful, the snow-dusted evergreens lovely, but I find myself captured by the detail of the few remaining leaves on the deciduous bushes in the foreground.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Thank you for dropping by my rather sluggish journal. I'm glad you enjoyed the treeness of this. I abhor drawing trees, but force myself to do it because I like the results and it builds character.