Illustrator, 3.5h.
Initial sketch, plus photo-ref. The horse was sketched out over a photo as well but I didn’t include it here.
As you can tell I pushed a lot of stuff around from my initial sketch, the horse’s pose is much more exaggerated than my original.
aoc riding bernie horse – here’s a PDF if you want to print it out and bring it to a protest or something.
also you can get shirts/stickers/laptop skins/etc over here, assuming redbubble doesn’t take it down