Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates/Cartoon horse

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Cartoon horses are one of the cartoon world´s most sensitive and expression-filled animals. A horse without this sensitivity may as well be stuffed in glass case. In drawing a cartoon horse , especially as a main character, it must be full of expression and sensitivity to be meaningful.A horse does not have speech so everything must be found in his expressions - mainly in the eyes and a discreet mouth shape. A good example to follow is "Mercatroid ", a horse of pure Menorca race which was developed by David Anthony Cox to depict an observer´s angle on local events and politics. The horse never says a word. If you are trying to use a cartoon horse in your work, take a look at this one and you may get some ideas. Easily found on Google and Yahoo.com. Still drawings and animation run along the same lines when dealing with horses. It does not matter if trotting or running animated horses have totally ridiculous and unrealistic leg movements. The object is to amuse the viewer - in fact, to cause a laugh, the final goal of all cartoons. I hope that this is of use to would-be horse depicters in their animations.