Stag Dance Moves

Since the two stag characters in my premise film will perform a dance together I have been looking for sources of dance movements that a stag can perform. I thought it probably would be the easiest to look into horse movements, since their body structure is fairly equal to the one of a stag.

So I looked up pictures of dressage poses, as well as the performances of the Spanish Riding school and sketched them out.

I then used these poses as references to draw stags in the same pose. Even though I used stag reference pictures to follow their anatomy, some of the stag drawings have a horse-ish look to them.

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