Exercise 4 - using source material

In my research for this I found lively drawings (and paintings) of horses by Emma Kennaway
not scientific or biological but easy to see where the muscles lie.
I have my grandfathers copy of Virtues Household Physician which is a wonderfully old fashioned (my copy was published in 1925) encyclopedia covering everything from anatomy to dealing with wounds sustained duelling . In the veterinary section there are a number of illustrations

The muscles of a horse (Pencil)

The anatomy of a dog (Pencil)

and a pregnant sheep. (Pencil and coloured pencil)

Although I worked fairly loosely these are probably too much like the original images as I tried to be true to the underlying anatomy. I wanted to consider something in a bit more detail so looked online and found this diagram of the nerves of a dog. (from the Royal Veterinary College's online anatomy museum)

Whilst trying to keep the nerves in the right place I tried to be less rigid in my approach. I drew in white pencil on coloured paper than added detail with pencil and fineliner.

I didn't allow enough space for the ear tip so when I did the background I tried to loose the ring binding with a bit of computer fudging.

I'm thinking about stillness and detachment rather than movement and emotion here. The background is supposed to reflect the pattern of the nerves. Now I'm worrying that I've delved too deep here and it was supposed to be more about external anatomy and muscles.