An Unusual Farmhand

For some reason, whilst browsing through stock photos of horses, this scene came to mind. He's sort of an inverted centaur, with the body of a man and the head of a horse.

I used a great number of photographs as well as memory to compose this picture--everything from haystacks to peasants from Nepal to fences to coal miners. The one stock photo that I stayed true to was that of a beautiful percheron draft horse named Belvedere from ~FigureStock.

I'm afraid this character doesn't have a name. He's a hard worker out in the country, tending to, among other things, actual horses. He has a fairly simple character: loyal, honest and selfless. Doesn't complain, gets the job done, but is rather self-conscious about folk staring at him.

Graphite on printer paper