I like this one a lot. I agree with you the horns could be more obvious. Maybe if you do a redraft you could make them a tad bit larger and in a contrasting color?
If I redraw it, I shall move Central Horse Guy left a bit and make him and his horn bigger and more foregroundy. I think that would do it.
I was slightly discombobulated that the cock, which came out very flowing and quickly when I sketched him on other paper, came out rather stiff and blobby when I put him on the ink-painting paper I wanted to use, and I didn't pencil him but went straight to ink, so I was committed. Well, committed unless I wanted to re-do it, which I didn't have time for...
I am seeing this more in a landscape rather than a portrait, with more distance between the cock and the horses. That would give you more room to make the horns more prominent.
I think this comes from having seen a LOT of medieval miniatures with the horde of horses coming from the left and there being quite a lot of nominally empty space starting at about the middle of the complete image and covering at least a quarter of the page.
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I was slightly discombobulated that the cock, which came out very flowing and quickly when I sketched him on other paper, came out rather stiff and blobby when I put him on the ink-painting paper I wanted to use, and I didn't pencil him but went straight to ink, so I was committed. Well, committed unless I wanted to re-do it, which I didn't have time for...
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I am seeing this more in a landscape rather than a portrait, with more distance between the cock and the horses. That would give you more room to make the horns more prominent.
I think this comes from having seen a LOT of medieval miniatures with the horde of horses coming from the left and there being quite a lot of nominally empty space starting at about the middle of the complete image and covering at least a quarter of the page.
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