bricks, horses, carriages.

dunno what i was thinking when i chose this as an angle to draw a panel from. i meant to scan this before i starting filling in the horse so you could get a sense of what my "roughs" look like when i just slap them on the page before they get refined and inked. at least the horse isn't smiling ~ ha! and look at how wongy my perspective is on the street (that'll get corrected!). i'd have finished another two pages already if i hadn't made this silly panel so complicated.


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in research news, i finally found an actual photograph of two horses in harness in which one of the horses has fallen. i had seen a drawing of such long time ago and it stuck in my head, so i wrote a story called "A Horse in the Road" (which some of you might remember). it was suggested to me that one of a team of horses might not be able to fall without bringing down the other. i don't know squat about horse rigging, i only knew i had once upon seen a picture and i couldn't really trust my memory on the matter.

so finally here's a picture for reference, totally not intended as an "i told you so" since, like i said, i know nothing about how these things work. i figured that falling horses (especially in the 19th century) would be common, so it would only make sense that the rigging be designed not to injure the rest of the team if one were to fall (sort of like break away pet collars). this picture might be educational (for anyone needing such obscure education?).

( cut for being a sad picture. the original caption said the horse was sick and fell down during a race, but doesn't indicate whether it recovered. )