Eventing Collection: Cross Country

This is the second instilment in my Eventing Collection. In this one, I omitted the partial jump in the background because I wanted to keep the focus on the horse and rider. I was particularly happy with the horse's head and the rider's torso – no particular reason, except that, well, I liked what I did. What do you all think? Good call on the jump? A shading technique you really like, or think I could improve on?

The reference was used with permission from , and here it is: [link]

This was drawn with 2H - 8B pencils. WIP coming soon!