6/ JULY 2022 THE RIDER MY SPIN:
artists have found a very beneficial reason for tracing and highly en- courage it! Such a huge difference of opinion like we see today about vaccines. I’d like to explain. Do I trace? Sure for extreme accuracy and I like hyper-realism in my art work. And over the years from trac- ing, I now trace the proportions for accuracy and free hand the images I’m familiar with. I’m going to de- scribe how this applies to horses in a minute.
Why Trace? Tracing your image onto an art
By Susan Dahl.
Is Tracing a Horse Allowed? There is a very heated, ancient
debate in the art world about whether tracing an image onto your art surface is ok. It’s a testy subject. Crazy, if you ask me. Countless centuries have been
spent arguing over this. The tradition- alists say it’s taboo to trace - literally. Sacrilege. That you must go through the painstaking process of hand draw- ing the image. Like an initiation or earning your dues, so to speak. Some people say it’s cheating. Yet, the mas- ters like Michael Angelo and his kind did forms of tracing. That’s not widely known for some reason. Still, others, mostly modern
surface helps you build muscle memory when you do that. So I highly recommend that you practise tracing and encourage your kids to do so if you want to learn how to draw - especially horses :). More importantly, it gives you accurate muscle memory. If you don’t have assistance when you’re learning to draw free hand, you could run into the problem of developing muscle memory that’s inaccurate. Yet, it re- ally feels accurate because it feels so familiar. That’s why tracing helps to learn how to draw cor- rectly. It’s speeds up the learning process and you can start to free- hand images that you’re very famil- iar with in the future.
How Does This Apply to Horses? It does apply to horses. Tak-
ing learning to ride for example. If Is Tracing A Horse Allowed?
different paths of learning. So I highly recommend that a
rider learn by a method where someone can give them feedback. What would be equivalent to trac- ing? I guess the closest thing would be videoing yourself learning to ride and have someone else view the video and give feedback. The main take-away here that
I’m trying to convey is to make sure that by whatever method you use for anything, horse related in this case, is have a method to get feed- back so that you develop accurate muscle memory and not learn the wrong thing.
Putting my spin on Tracing for ac- curacy.
Reinersue @KISS Reiners
you choose to go the DIY method of learning to ride where you are at home alone using the method of learning by trail and error, without having someone watch you to make sure you’re learning how to ride ac- curately, you could end up learning the wrong thing. Back in the day, I saw students
swear they knew how to ride cor- rectly but they didn’t. They hadn’t had any formal lessons and they in- advertently developed bad habits or wrong ways to ride. They were so convinced that they were riding properly, that some didn’t come back after a few lessons. Blessings to them anyway. We are all here on
About Susan Dahl Susan Dahl, ORHA/NRHA past multiple champion, writer, blogger, author and clinician, retired certi- fied professional horse trainer. Owner of Foundation Reining Training Centre in Durham, ON. She specializes in effective horse- manship, and reining. For more in- formation on her services: judging, clinics or resale horses, please con- tact her on facebook, her website:
www.reinersuehorseman
ship.com or
reinersue@hotmail.com
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