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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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze video bevat 39 zinnen en 588 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:28. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 132 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
roughly bijwoord	/ˈɹʌf.li/	grofweg
sphere zelfstandig naamwoord	/sfɪɚ/	bol
elbow zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɛlboʊ̯/	elleboog
hawk zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈhɔːk/	havik
vast bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/væst/	enorm
bone zelfstandig naamwoord	/boʊn/	been
muscle zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈmʌs.əl/	spier
ear zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɪə̯/	oor
diamond zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/	diamant
essentially bijwoord	/ɪˈsɛnʃəli/	essentieel
sheet zelfstandig naamwoord	/ʃit/	blad
resource zelfstandig naamwoord	/ɹɪˈzɔːs/	bron, hulpbron
angle zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈæŋ.ɡəl/	hoek
connect werkwoord	/kəˈnɛkt/	verbinden
hence bijwoord	/ˈhɛns/	van hier, heen

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	are located · can be placed
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	centres, which means · forelegs, which are · withers, which is

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 10 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, you'll, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: sixth /sɪksθ/, wither /ˈwɪðɚ/, girth /ɡɝθ/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: proportion /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, sheet /ʃit/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, familiarity /fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/, generalize /ˈd͡ʒɛn.(ə.)ɹə.laɪz/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/

Zo oefen je met deze video

Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als roughly, sphere, elbow.

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?

Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.

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