This is my "screw you and your biased opinion" final project. I was downright fed up with some rather uninformed and ignorant rhetoric I was receiving as an equine artist within the studio environment. So, to stick it to the man so to speak, I drew up a 7 foot fire horse that was just as angry as I was. The fire the horse rises up from is created by the burning pages depicting how-to-draw-a-horse instructions aimed at little kids. Quite literally, destroying the idea that horses are only meant to be drawn by kids. To top it off, I titled the piece How To Draw A Pony, a direct quote used to try to belittle a piece of work, that we, as artists, should not talk about art as if it were a "how to draw a pony book". 

This is a detail shot of the base of the drawing. The 'burning pages' are printouts of kid-friendly instructions to draw horses. As you can see, none of the instructions truly teach anyone how to draw a proper horse. All of the pages show cartoonish horses, disproportionate limbs, and over-simplified bodies. 

This is a detail shot of the head and neck of the horse. The base colors are all done in acrylic paint, layered up to create different shades of orange and reds. I emphasized some of the edges and muscles structures by going over the darker points and lighter points in colored pencil. The eye and mouth are also done completely in colored pencil to give it a sharper look.