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okk so at the moment i am painting a empire general on a horse and due to the fact i never really have to paint horses i am quite unsure if
it looks right what do you think?

i was going for a dark brown colouring what do you think??

fox in a box

For horses think about who is riding.

Kings usually get a white horse: Base coat with testors flat grey or white. Paint the belly a light flesh color. Hooves get a base of flesh too and a little in the nostrils/mouth/inner ears.
Paint body white and blend over edges of belly head areas. Choose a sand or buff for mane and tail, or do a black wash.
Add a black wash to muzzel, lower legs and hoves.


As horses come in many shades of brown you can choose just about any leather, dirt, red-brown color you want.
Most horses have black mains and tails. Occasionally there are blond-buff colores manes - like halflingers. Hooves are normally black unless the horse has "socks" white lower legs (you can vary length and 1 to 4 socks.) in which case hooves can be flesh colored.

I even have an appoloosa grey in my Rohinian herd.


And my Wraith riders are base black with dark flesh washes.