Horse and Hound Sketches and a Dog Skull

[dagmarjung]

It's the Annual 'Pferd und Jagd' Fair (Horse and Hunt) in Hannover, and I use the oportunity to do some sketching. Here are the best of today's crop:

Comments

[lenine2]

When you have some time will you please stop by and do a sketch of my horse? Thanks.

Awesome skull! I would love to see the horse skull, but I imagine that would be hard to get on your scanner.

The Horse and Hunt fair sounds like fun.

[dagmarjung]

I'd love to! :-)

The Horse fair is fun. Beside endless boots with each and everything around horses it has a very good show program. In fact, several ones. Big name horse trainers hold clinics in various riding styles and so on.

[elvses]

Excellent sketches. The dog's paws are perfect.

[dagmarjung]

Thanks! :-)
I wish I'd had a little more time to do more sketches of this whippet, but the fair was closing. I love drawing greyhounds, there's nothing better for learning learning dog anatomy, all the details are so clearly visible. And besides, they look so awesome elegant no matter what they do.

[broom__rider]

Oh my, you are so good at drawing animals! Those sketches are great.
I can't say that I am fascinated with sculls, but this one looks pretty neat!:)

[dagmarjung]

For me, skeleton and skull are the basic of animal or human shape and I try to keep the bone structure in mind when I draw or sculpt. Having a real skull or a good scale model of a skeleton is great for referencem, but I find them also fascinating all by themselves. It's probably my inner Neandertaler.

[wulfila]

The Andalusian is lovely, and so is the dog. :) And, again, I am absolutely in awe of your skills as an artist.

Perhaps you could post a photo of your whole skull collection at some time? It sounds very interesting!

[dagmarjung]

Your wish is my command, see my new post!

[keiliss]

Really like the whippet studies. You've managed to catch that quality of bonelessness dogs have when they're completely relaxed.

[dagmarjung]

The whippet shared her basket with a black pug. They looked so cute and exravagant together, that all the time, people stopped and wondered 'are they real?'.