Shadowing Practice: 3 tips to make drawing horses easy(er) 🐴 - Learn English Speaking with Video

Horses are the bane of many an artist.

They are big, lanky and not commonly kept in cities and population centres, which means that most people don't have frequent contact or familiarity with them.

As a certified horse girl of many many years, I'm here to share with you some tips on how I draw horses to hopefully allow you to do the same.

The key to drawing anything well is being able to simplify it down to its basic shapes.

I picture a horse's body as two connected spheres, effectively forming a bean shape.

The head is a wedge with the tip knocked off and spheres for the muzzle and cheek planes.

Put these together, add some lines to show neck, tail and legs with circles for the joints and and triangles for the hooves and we have a horse.

But how the hell do I know where to put everything?

This is a horse.

Just like people, horses come in a vast array of different shapes and sizes.

However, for our purposes, we're going to generalise a little bit.

Don't worry if it's a lot of information to take in at first.

I put a cheat sheet and some resources in the video description and if you're stuck on something, you can always use references.

I've locked the skeleton in to illustrate the useful landmarks more clearly.

The horse's head is approximately the same length as its neck, the depth of its girth, the distance between its elbow and its fetlock joint on the foreleg,

the distance between its shoulder and its wither, between the ground and its hock joint, and between the hock joint and the siphle joint.

The hop joint is even with the chestnuts on its forelegs, which are located just above the knee joint.

The elbow and stifle joints are roughly in line.

The point of the buttock is slightly higher than the shoulder joint.

The length of the body is about two and a half to three times the length of the head, and the distance between the ground and the horse's withers, which is the high point of its shoulder,

is roughly equal to the distance between the point of its shoulder to its buttocks.

Hence the saying that a good horse is square.

Onto the head itself, the eyes are located roughly a third down the central line of the face

which is essentially an elongated diamond shape.

The mouth ends roughly one-sixth the way along the face and the cheekbones roughly one-third of the way down.

The eyes, ears and nostrils can be placed on the head at 45 degree angles from the central line.

Keeping these proportions in mind will help you

when constructing the drawing of your horse and if something feels off you can and always check your drawing against them.

My third and final tip for drawing horses well is practice.

Get familiar with their skeletal structure, their muscular structure.

Use references, trace images.

If you're able to go and see a horse in real life then do that.

Or watch videos to learn how they move.

Draw them a lot.

You'll begin to see how the basic proportional rules apply and that sometimes they don't.

With repetition and practice you'll develop the muscle memory of the shapes

and proportions that make up a horse and eventually you might even find it easy.

Well that's all for today everyone, hope you enjoyed the video and stay tuned for the next one.

Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 39 frases y 588 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:28. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 132 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 82 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
roughly adverbio	/ˈɹʌf.li/	toscamente
proportion sustantivo	/pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/	proporción
locate verbo	/ˈloʊˌkeɪt/	ubicar, colocar
sphere sustantivo	/sfɪɚ/	esfera, bola
elbow sustantivo	/ˈɛlboʊ̯/	codo
hawk sustantivo	/ˈhɔːk/	azor, gavilán
vast adjetivo	/væst/	vasto, enorme
bone sustantivo	/boʊn/	hueso
muscle sustantivo	/ˈmʌs.əl/	músculo
ear sustantivo	/ˈɪə̯/	oído, oreja
diamond sustantivo	/ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/	diamante, gema
essentially adverbio	/ɪˈsɛnʃəli/	esencialmente, en esencia
sheet sustantivo	/ʃit/	hoja, folio
resource sustantivo	/ɹɪˈzɔːs/	recurso
angle sustantivo	/ˈæŋ.ɡəl/	ángulo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
make up verbo	/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/	reponer, suplir

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	are located · can be placed
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa	centres, which means · forelegs, which are · withers, which is

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 10 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, you'll, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: sixth /sɪksθ/, wither /ˈwɪðɚ/, girth /ɡɝθ/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: proportion /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, sheet /ʃit/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, familiarity /fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/, generalize /ˈd͡ʒɛn.(ə.)ɹə.laɪz/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como roughly, proportion, locate.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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