I'm back - with another drawing! :)

[Karen]

I'd some dark tones inside the nostril and the ear. And darken the shadows underneath the head and neck some, that'll make it look like he's being lit from above, give it a bit more depth, and it'll balance the darkness of the eye.

Until you"fix" it, you can protect it from smudging by covering it with tissue paper so nothing rubs off. If you're framing it, the glass will protect it, but if you roll it, definitely use the tissue paper.

And just sketching lightly in a landscape in the distance, or a fence and barn, just lightly, will keep it from looking so blank!

[JuniorxMyxLove]

Yeah the picture was taken with flash from a few feet away so all the tones that *should* be dark...aren't. I'm bad at straying from the picture to make it look better, hehe.

Right now I just have my sketchbook open to that page, uncovered, sitting on top of a dresser so none of the cats get at it, lol. I will have to find some tissue paper, though.

That's a good idea...he's poking his head out of a stall in the picture so I'll just draw that lightly in behind him. I hate backgrounds...I'm always afraid I'll mess it up and ruin the picture.

[JuniorxMyxLove]

At about 2AM when I finally realized I wasn't going to be sleeping...I thought it would be a good idea to try and fix this.

I really need to start locking away the pencils at night, haha. Nothing good ever comes from my late night/early morning attempts at drawing.

Basically...I found my little stub of a 6B pencil [I need to not use it on every single drawing for every single thing] and...

I didn't really darken any one part, I just kind of made the whole thing a little darker. The eye still looks messed up but I don't have a good eraser and would just smudge the eye around if I tried to erase it. I dunno WHAT I was thinking with the little bit of mane sticking in there...and the face is still too thick [for the horse it's supposed to be].