I am a sketchbook artist. As long as I can remember every drawing started with a line. Just recently I found this drawing I made when I was five years old. It seems horses have fascinated me then as they do now! I love how simple it is: A belly, a neck, four legs, a mane and a tail — it’s a horse! I guess the person on top is me 😉 Fast forward a few decades and I’m still drawing horses. This one is from one of my recent sketchbooks. The lines still dominate, and I guess they appear a bit more confident. Even though anatomically this is probably much closer to a real horse, I remember how I deliberately avoided sticking too close to the anatomy. Instead, I exaggerated certain things that to me make the character of a horse — the big belly, the enormous butt cheeks, and in contrast the somehow skinny legs. I don’t know why, but all of a sudden this summer I felt I was a bit “stuck” …