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Adoption atempt for 
Name: Mercury
Breed: Unknown
Gender: Female
Coat colour: Green
Markings: Dark green and white spots
Used for: Horse for my stables! Shall never be forgotten
Personality: Kind and always ready for action! Is always full of energy and never grows tired!
Story:
Mercury galloped round the large field, Jumping over branches and logs. She ran over towards to the stables and the other horses that were in the neighbouring field. "Still no luck?" Asked a palomino mare
"no. Not yet..." Mercury replied trailing off in the middle of the sentence by the noise of a car coming down the drive and towards the auction pen! "act cute and be friendly."the largest horse said quickly. Mercury galloped fast and smoothly round the paddock then approached the humans and nudged the little girls cheek gently. "that one!" She said stroking the horse's head!
I focused on shading and it went well! so did the background! thank god i finally learnt how to smudge my art!
Horse ref
Name: Mercury
Breed: Unknown
Gender: Female
Coat colour: Green
Markings: Dark green and white spots
Used for: Horse for my stables! Shall never be forgotten
Personality: Kind and always ready for action! Is always full of energy and never grows tired!
Story:
Mercury galloped round the large field, Jumping over branches and logs. She ran over towards to the stables and the other horses that were in the neighbouring field. "Still no luck?" Asked a palomino mare
"no. Not yet..." Mercury replied trailing off in the middle of the sentence by the noise of a car coming down the drive and towards the auction pen! "act cute and be friendly."the largest horse said quickly. Mercury galloped fast and smoothly round the paddock then approached the humans and nudged the little girls cheek gently. "that one!" She said stroking the horse's head!
I focused on shading and it went well! so did the background! thank god i finally learnt how to smudge my art!
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Hi. CC as requested. 
First of all, I like the overall concept you wanted this to have. The patterns and colours go well together, and the overall picture has a very dynamic feel due to the horse being placed in a diagonal line across the paper.
A problem about your dynamic pose is, that the horse you referenced this from, clearly was in a lot more static pose. I'm sure there's great stock here at DA with running horses that really are leaning to the side like this. If you'd used that as a base, the horse's legs would fit in with the rest of the picture.
Also, you can get this even more dramatic, if you use the hair and mane as tools. Make them flow out behind the horse to show the speed. Hair is a great tool for getting more life and action into a picture.
A thing I really think you should work more on is the "room" within your picture. This picture is very flat. The horse on the picture has no mass. It's not a character in 3D that has been drawn on a 2D paper. It's all 2D.
When drawing the horse, you need to know where the body goes. Even within the defined lineart. For instance, your patterns doesn't follow the body's shape. The pattern is painted on something flat, rather than a horse with a round body.
Horses are super hard to get right. There's so many things to learn about horse anatomy, and there's a lot of muscles and body-shapes you need to understand on the equine body.
Anyway, I hope this was useful. Maybe consider to either get a scanner or a tablet, so it'll be easier to show off your skills as they are "when not done with a mouse".
First of all, I like the overall concept you wanted this to have. The patterns and colours go well together, and the overall picture has a very dynamic feel due to the horse being placed in a diagonal line across the paper.
A problem about your dynamic pose is, that the horse you referenced this from, clearly was in a lot more static pose. I'm sure there's great stock here at DA with running horses that really are leaning to the side like this. If you'd used that as a base, the horse's legs would fit in with the rest of the picture.
Also, you can get this even more dramatic, if you use the hair and mane as tools. Make them flow out behind the horse to show the speed. Hair is a great tool for getting more life and action into a picture.
A thing I really think you should work more on is the "room" within your picture. This picture is very flat. The horse on the picture has no mass. It's not a character in 3D that has been drawn on a 2D paper. It's all 2D.
When drawing the horse, you need to know where the body goes. Even within the defined lineart. For instance, your patterns doesn't follow the body's shape. The pattern is painted on something flat, rather than a horse with a round body.
Horses are super hard to get right. There's so many things to learn about horse anatomy, and there's a lot of muscles and body-shapes you need to understand on the equine body.
Anyway, I hope this was useful. Maybe consider to either get a scanner or a tablet, so it'll be easier to show off your skills as they are "when not done with a mouse".