How To Insanity

welcome to my mind.

i was recently asked to do a tutorial on how i draw my lines. well, i kinda just draw. so at first i declined, because i don't see how that really helps anyone. but then i thought about it. i've never really liked the way the circle method worked. why? well, step 1: draw some circles. step 2: WHERE? HOW? WHY?

so, today i spent my psychology seminar (2 hours) trying to figure out a way to make the circle method easier. at first, i thought about looking up the ideal conformation of a horse and measuring and doing lines and grids, but then i realized no one really wants to do that. so i reverse engineered a simple grid.

here you have it, the closest approximation to a decent looking horse i could come up with using the circle method placed on a simple grid.

i was going to make this nice and fancy, but lost motivation real fast. my handwriting came out horrendously. if you can't read stuff, i will translate.

anyway, what i discovered along the way was that even though you kind of need to know the basic locations/look of the parts of a horse, this thing REALLY helped whip out a proportional horse FAST. usually, it takes me a couple sketches on top of each other to get the proportions right. this comes out FAST (i say again) and DECENT.

so, actually, i might end up using this in the future. so maybe you'll like it too.

if people actually care, i'll save the grid as a png file so you can just proportionally enlarge it for use. or you could just make your own, ya lazy bums.