How to Draw a Horse on a Rock
Drawing a horse on a rock is a creative way to express your artistic gifts. The trick is to sketch the foreground objects first and the background objects last. Since the horse is standing on the rocks -- a mountain ridge, for example -- the horse is considered the foreground object. Draw the horse first and then add the rocks, which are the background objects.
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Instructions
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Draw the horse outline. Sketch a small circle near the top right corner of the paper. This small circle will act as the head outline. Trace the outline of the nose and mouth on the horse -- off the front of the head -- in the shape of a sideways letter "U." Trace a wide oval for the horse's midsection. Connect the head and midsection with a short vertical neck line. Draw a broad back-end off the midsection of the horse in the shape of a backwards letter "C." Trace the outline of the legs and tail.
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Shape the horse. Draw a narrow triangle atop the head as a horse ear. Hook a downward curved line from the top of the nose to the center of the midsection -- the outline for the top of the neck. Trace a line from the bottom of the head -- at center -- down to the front of the midsection to complete the neck. Sketch long, wavy lines to add tail hair. Add definition and shape to legs and hooves.
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Add horse features. Trace a tiny circle at the front of the nose for a nostril. Draw and shade in the eye in the shape of a horizontal teardrop. Sketch short, wavy diagonal lines in the center of the neck for fringes of mane hair. Add tiny sketches of hair over the hooves. Erase unnecessary tracing lines to complete the horse.
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Draw the rock. Sketch a large egg shape under the hooves of the horse. Bring the loop of the egg shape down the first side to the bottom of the paper and up on the right side. This egg shape sketch acts as the large rock outline. Add small and medium-sized circles on the large rock, representing stones and pebbles. Sketch short diagonal lines over the large, medium and small rock surfaces to add texture.
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Shade in the horse and rock. Use a wide variety of colors with shades of gray. Begin with the darkest shade of grey on the far left side of the large rock. Continue moving right by adding slightly lighter shades of grey. Altering the shade quality of the same color gives the image depth. Employ cross-hatch technique on the horse body and rock surfaces. Trace a patch of small diagonal lines in one area. Sketch a second diagonal patch -- angled in the opposite direction -- atop the first set. The overlapping patches give an added impression of depth, texture and shadow.
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