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This is an attempt at determining the 'ideal' proportions of a centaur.

I don't claim to be an artist which is why I had a friend do some cut and paste with his scanner. (The female images are from the Walter Foster book "How to Draw and Paint Figures in Action" by Andrew Loomis. The image of the horse is from the Pentalic book "Draw Horses" by David Brown.)

The markings are in four inch increments, more or less, in an attempt at measuring the horse in hands. The original attempt was to create a centaur with a human torso that is about 80 percent of the height at the withers.

This version has the horse at 15 hands and the torso at about 70 percent of the wither height.

Note that the female figures at the left are natural size while the female figure in the middle is scaled to the same proportions as the centaur torso.

The following images use the above as a the starting point and show what the relative proportions could look like for various breeds. (Yes I realize that the proportions of the equine part vary by breed/height but this isn't fine art...)

This version has the horse at 18 hands and the torso at about 70 percent of the wither height.

This version has the horse at 15 hands again and the torso at about 70 percent of the wither height.

This version has the horse at 10 hands and the torso at about 70 percent of the wither height.

This version has the horse at 8-2 hands and the torso at about 70 percent of the wither height. She is about my size.

Your comments would be appreciated. Similar art work would be appreciated even more.

Misty

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