I don’t think the colour adds much to the drawings and I had a problem trying to properly clean out the ink pen so there are drawings that are quite murky and dirty. I kept to a safe colour combination of red, orange and yellow being the main colour I did the base sketch with. I think that may have been where the drawings looked wrong, I laid down a base sketch which if it had been ink would have been the complete drawing, and then went over the lines with the two other colours making certain areas and lines bolder and more dominant. I don’t think my drawings need this and the colour doesn't look like it means anything with my drawings as it doesn’t fill in the horse. So I will continue using inks but will most likely leave the colour for now till my understanding of colour is better and I have a well-developed idea of why I want to use the colour and reason to.
My favourite drawings are my more spontaneous works where I
haven’t used a source picture. Even though some of the positions look unperfected
and impossible I think these drawings feel looser and freer without a loss of
flow where I have to look up at my source image and be careful in trying to
duplicate it. The source-less images have more emotion in them and I tend to
leave more of the horse incomplete and to the imagination which works better
than drawing the full form. When I copy the whole form down the drawings often
look heavy, where as if I leave legs, backs and tails as squiggles and have
floating shoes and knees the drawing feels lighter and airier and I think work
better.
