i have never been able to draw horses or ponies ever how the hell do you do it so perfectly
it took me a long while! I figured out some tricks a while ago when I was trying to Actually Draw Horses for some semi-serious art. The real trick is that the cartoon designs are made of some really simple shapes!
My big tip is to stop thinking about them as real-life horses and start thinking of them as shapes that can bend and stretch and squash. The ponies in MLP look nothing like actual real horses; they're more like quadruped short-necked rainbow giraffes! Once I gave up on the fear of them looking anatomically incorrect and started looking for the specific "shapes" the art style was built out of, I had a much easier time. This can even work for more serious art!
(these are a little old and from when I was first trying to learn how to draw pony-type fellas from last year, but I think the principles still stand!)
Hope this helps a little! :D
