30 Day Drawing Challenge -- Day 9

Day 9 -- Favorite TV Show

Ask me 6 months ago, and I would have said Dr. Who. But for now, Sherlock has usurped the Doctor. What can I say? It's absolutely fantastic. (Jeeves and Wooster would have been another choice, but I can't draw Stephen Fry to save my life. The man has the weirdest face ever.)

Plus, Martin Freeman (Watson) is Bilbo in The Hobbit, and Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) is playing Smaug. What's not to love??

I didn't do the background thingy...I found it online and plastered it behind the guys for context's sake. XD Everything else is drawn from scratch, though (as you can tell from Watson's uneven eyes and Sherlock's face--Benedict Cumberbatch is another dude with a weird face).

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So today I had another riding lesson with a friend of mine...apparently the horse and I really aren't in too bad of shape knowledge-wise, considering that I'm almost completely self-taught. :p But I'm appreciating the chance to have someone who knows what they're doing critique my riding and show me how to do thing properly. Most of the things she's been telling me I've read about, and I know OF them, but (for example) to be posting the trot and applying the inside leg properly while holding the reins correctly and shift the hips at JUST the right moment to cue the horse into the correct lead? That's something that you can't learn from a book, I'm afraid. 

And apparently the riding/lunging the horse every day is paying off, because she is WAY more responsive than when we first started. I mean...she's not too thrilled about it. And she's still going to fuss a bit here and there. But for the most part she's willing to give all she's got when being ridden. (That was rather a large compliment towards Colletta, actually--I mean, she's not the perfect horse by any means, but her willingness to do almost anything covers up a multitude of sins. *glee*)

So all in all...the horse stuff is coming along very well. I'm pleased with her, and after working for a couple more weeks on getting her more receptive to leg pressure (her biggest irritation now--she's ultra-sensitive to leg pressure, and wants to go faster/brace against it) and to accepting bit contact, I'll probably start on the endurance stuff in earnest. But I can't work on that until she's more obedient with the little stuff.

Good grief. All I seem to do on here is post random drawings and talk about the horse. XD