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Romulus

From the Studio of Julie Janzen

Feb. 17, 2010

Today’s blog will describe the approach I used to develop the drawing of Romulus.  The objective was to create a horse, for a logo, to represent the breed, for registration papers.

This drawing began with the study sketches I had done of an Iberian breed horse, Romulus.  After creating the studies of Romulus, the client and I discussed the direction of the final drawing.  They wanted the drawing to represent a horse that was further along in his training, but was still a representation of Romulus and the Iberian breed.

The challenge was to create a horse from the existing photos of Romulus.  These photos came from a video of Romulus; which are not of the best quality and photos I took of him riderless.  None of these photos are exactly what we wanted the final sketch to look like; so I studied multiple sources along with the photos taken to create this final sketch. 

A few more subtle changes are needed for this drawing to be complete as well as adding a few more values to help define some more shapes within the horse.

Studies of Romulus

Until next time...