Roan Horse Drawing

[Diamond Filly]

Does anyone have some advice on drawing roan horses? I just drew a horse and now I'm planning to color it with colored pencils. Is there a base color that I should brush over first? I don't know whether I'll draw a red roan or blue roan yet.

I looked up the base color for roan and the answer online was white, but I wasn't so sure about that. Anyway, white is the color of my paper already.

Thank you!
~Diamond Filly

[BlackOak2]

Does anyone have some advice on drawing roan horses? I just drew a horse and now I'm planning to color it with colored pencils. Is there a base color that I should brush over first? I don't know whether I'll draw a red roan or blue roan yet.

I looked up the base color for roan and the answer online was white, but I wasn't so sure about that. Anyway, white is the color of my paper already.

Thank you!
~Diamond Filly

Drawing is... preferential... I suppose.
But roan is defined as 'any color interspersed with white hairs'. But as far as genetics are concerned, the base color of a blue roan, is black. So that would be a black base with white hairs throughout. Red Roan (although I always think of it as chestnut, the color Red Roan is a bay base), would be red base (red hairs) interspersed with white hairs.
Strawberry Roan is chestnut horses.

That said... coloring such a thing in would be a bit more difficult. If it were on the computer, I'd suggest laying down your base (black for a blue roan, for instance) and then using a layer to create the same coat in white and then using opacity (or translucence) to about 50% and seeing how that looks.

Eh... I'm not an artist.

[Diamond Filly]

Does anyone have some advice on drawing roan horses? I just drew a horse and now I'm planning to color it with colored pencils. Is there a base color that I should brush over first? I don't know whether I'll draw a red roan or blue roan yet.

I looked up the base color for roan and the answer online was white, but I wasn't so sure about that. Anyway, white is the color of my paper already.

Thank you!
~Diamond Filly

Drawing is... preferential... I suppose.
But roan is defined as 'any color interspersed with white hairs'. But as far as genetics are concerned, the base color of a blue roan, is black. So that would be a black base with white hairs throughout. Red Roan (although I always think of it as chestnut, the color Red Roan is a bay base), would be red base (red hairs) interspersed with white hairs.
Strawberry Roan is chestnut horses.

That said... coloring such a thing in would be a bit more difficult. If it were on the computer, I'd suggest laying down your base (black for a blue roan, for instance) and then using a layer to create the same coat in white and then using opacity (or translucence) to about 50% and seeing how that looks.

Eh... I'm not an artist.

Thank you! I have a better idea of how to do it now.

[BlackOak2]

Good Luck!