How To Draw A Boulder

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Draw an oval. You may want to draw it flat on the bottom, to make to look like it's laying.
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Draw a horizon line coming out from the left and the right side of the rock. This shows the boundary between the earth and the sky.
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To decorate your rock, you should draw hatch marks to show grass below the lines for ground. You could add a circle above the rock, or emerging out of your rock to show the sun. Add other things like birds, clouds or worms if you wish.
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Add shading for value change.

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How do you decorate a rock step by step?

Draw small creases on the rock. After that, shade in certain sections of the rock. If you want to be really impressive and innovative, draw the oval, and then instead of coloring it in, crosshatch it. Crosshatching is when you draw many small lines overlapping each other to make it look like stone.
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How do I draw a flat rock?

Try drawing it with a flat side, and as always shading helps a great deal. Try to round out the side of the flat surface so it looks like it curve inward. You can also find a flat rock and use it for reference.
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How do I know what part of the rock to shade?

You know how to shade on the ground depending on where the sun is. The shaded portion of the rock should be the side that's facing away from the sun (wherever you choose to put it) since that's the part of the rock that wouldn't be receiving any light.
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How do I draw a large plane of rock?

If you mean a large, flat rock, then you can basically just draw a flat, rough-edged platform and add some shading to make it look rocky.
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How do I make my rock look shiny?

You can draw strategically placed white spots to give your rock the appearance of being shiny. wikiHow has a few articles that show a similar process on drawings of different objects, so check out How to Draw a Spoon and How to Draw Simple Anime Eyes to see how other artists create a shiny effect for their drawings.

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Rocks are very complicated in their own way. Take care to capture the personality of whichever rock that you are drawing. How was their day? Where did they come from? A river? A quarry? Put thought into the rock, it will show in the final drawing.
This will be fairly easy if you have drawn a rock before.
Don't over exaggerate your rock. This will probably be very good picture if you don't add too much.

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Do not push too hard on your pencil. It will break the lead, and you'll have to sharpen your pencil. This will ruin your concentration. You need full concentration to draw this figure.