Horse With Hands Riding A Bike

November 17, 2015 10:38 PM

Horse With Hands Riding A Bike. A horse is difficult to draw. Hands are difficult to draw. Bicycles are difficult to draw. So to draw all three is just cussing mind blowing. But these guys have given it a go!
posted by domnit (25 comments total)

Well, I will never sleep again.
posted by Literaryhero at 11:29 PM on November 17, 2015 [1 favorite]

@Literaryhero OTOH I found this deeply meditative. Why draw a horse with hands riding a bike? Why not?
posted by subdee at 12:35 AM on November 18, 2015

Like the artists can show off their individual styles and creativity, but at the end of the day it's a horse with hands riding a bike thus low stakes (therefore relaxing).
posted by subdee at 12:36 AM on November 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

A web site with people who draw better than you, even if you like drawing.
posted by doctorfrog at 1:11 AM on November 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

A horse is difficult to draw.

Horses are damn strange looking... their legs are too thin, the bodies are too rounded, their necks too thick, and don't even get me started on the heads... even if you draw/paint one right it still looks wrong.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 1:52 AM on November 18, 2015 [2 favorites]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if a horses' mouth was like a dogs, like if it went back that far? I think we'd see horses a lot differently and I think about this a lot.

...

If a horses mouth was like a dogs
posted by A Thousand Baited Hooks at 2:20 AM on November 18, 2015 [23 favorites]

> If a horses mouth was like a dogs

Thank you for your fascinating and educational link. I believe we all learned a lot and I for one will never sleep again.
posted by ardgedee at 2:25 AM on November 18, 2015 [11 favorites]

What a clever way to get people to draw your obscure fetish.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 3:17 AM on November 18, 2015 [5 favorites]

to draw all three

Now there's the mother of all pony requests...
posted by Namlit at 3:20 AM on November 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

I actually think it is just horse heads in general that freak me out. Particularly horse heads with dog mouths. Ugh.
posted by Literaryhero at 3:23 AM on November 18, 2015

Finally a test to discover the true Bromies.
posted by sammyo at 3:50 AM on November 18, 2015

I told her if she could reach for something and pick it up she could draw a line that was straight enough

She said she weren't interested in that kind of drawing, but always liked horses.
I said "I did too. But they're hard to draw"
She said "Yes, that was very true."
Said she could do the body okay, but never get the head, tail or legs.
I told her she was drawing sausages, not horses.
She said "No, they were horses."
posted by Thorzdad at 5:25 AM on November 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

The tail is the easiest part!
posted by subdee at 5:30 AM on November 18, 2015

I feel like this is something that Lisa Hanawalt needs to know about...
posted by kmz at 5:35 AM on November 18, 2015 [4 favorites]

I had an artist friend tell me once that she could never figure out why horses looked different in Japanese artworks... then she went to Japan. "That's just the way horses look in Japan!" she explained.
posted by valkane at 5:37 AM on November 18, 2015 [7 favorites]

A web site with people who draw better than you, even if you like drawing.

I think my first mistake was putting pants on the horse and then the rest of it was also mistakes.
posted by louche mustachio at 6:03 AM on November 18, 2015 [3 favorites]

Reminds me of how Where the Wild Things Are came to be illustrated that way:

Shortly before starting the illustrations, Sendak realized he did not know how to draw horses and, at the suggestion of his editor, changed the wild horses to the more ambiguous "Wild Things"

posted by iotic at 6:26 AM on November 18, 2015 [4 favorites]

Desensitized by Bojack Horseman. These are lovely.
posted by allthinky at 6:55 AM on November 18, 2015 [3 favorites]

I had an artist friend tell me once that she could never figure out why horses looked different in Japanese artworks

I felt this way about Maxfield Parrish's skies and the mountains in Chinese ink painting. The moment of going "huh, it actually does look like that" is a special kind of vertigo.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:02 AM on November 18, 2015 [2 favorites]

Yesssssssss Thorzdad. Came here to post same thing; here's the full bit, w/ song link in attribution

A waitress asked me what I did
I told her I tried to make art
She asked me if I made any money
I said, No I have to teach to do that

She asked me what I taught and where
I told her, she told me, she liked art
But that she couldn't draw a straight line
I told her if she could reach for something
And pick it up she could draw a line
That was straight enough

She said, she weren't interested in that kind of drawing
But always liked horses, I said I did too
But they're hard to draw, she said, Yes, that was very true
Said she could do the body okay, but never get the head
Tail or legs, I told her she was drawing sausages, not horses
She said no, they were horses

- Terry Allen    4EVA
posted by wemayfreeze at 9:18 AM on November 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

If a horse relative's mouth was like a dog's he would be a digitigrade ungulate carnivore (mostly un)known as Mesonychid.
posted by hat_eater at 10:44 AM on November 18, 2015 [2 favorites]

This is going to be my new example I trot out whenever someone says "There isn't a website for EVERYTHING, you know."
posted by mmoncur at 7:56 PM on November 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

all horses with a mouth like a dog are relative
posted by Namlit at 12:53 AM on November 19, 2015

When my sister's two giant Rhodesian ridgebacks visit and tower over my kids, I've always thought that the equivalent for an adult would be a horse with teeth, running around intent on sniffing the back of your neck. And now I've seen it. Thanks.
posted by guy72277 at 2:08 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]

I can never stop screaming.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 2:06 PM on November 22, 2015 [1 favorite]