As always, we start with a basic shape. We use a simple circle or an oval depending on the type of pumpkin. The exception is the butternut pumpkin, for which you draw two circles.
Easy to Draw Pumpkin and Fun Jack o Lantern Drawings
Pumpkins are a harbinger of autumn, and they have been for centuries. In America, pumpkins are celebrated in the fall with pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup, pumpkin seeds. They’re carved into jack-o’-lanterns to light up homes on Halloween night. And they’re given as gifts through Thanksgiving Day.
Pumpkin’s origins can be traced back to Central America where it was used by Native Americans for food and medicine well before Europeans arrived there in the 1500s. Pumpkins were brought to Europe during exploration by Christopher Columbus during his second voyage in 1493 when he encountered them being grown along the shores of Honduras — at that time called “pompions.”
The first settlers who came from England planted pumpkins in the new colony, alongside other vegetables such as corn and squash. Early American pumpkins were harvested from wild vines that grew along stream banks, not from the modern cultivars that today’s cooks prefer for pies and jack-o’-lanterns.
Pumpkin is a common vegetable worldwide, used in both sweet and savory dishes. It is an excellent source of fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
Spice up Your Halloween With a Pumpkin Drawing
Pumpkin drawings are easy to draw with some practice using different techniques. Add a little pumpkin spice to your fall doodles, planning, and bullet journals with this easy to draw pumpkin tutorial.
Drawing pumpkins in the fall is a great way to get into the spirit of Fall and Halloween. It’s also a lot of fun. Drawing pumpkins can be used for decoration like for Thanksgiving, or as a craft project like making jack-o-lanterns.
When drawing pumpkins use different techniques, colors, shapes, or patterns to make your pumpkin even more unique. Adding details like faces is another way to make the pumpkin drawing come to life!
What You’ll Need to Get Started:
- paper (sticker paper, planner pages, or art paper)
- a pencil and eraser for light sketch lines
- the coloring medium of your choice (markers, pens, colored pencils, crayons, etc.)
7 EASY Pumpkin Drawing ideas with Step-by-step Tutorials!
Let’s start with an Easy Pumpkin Line drawing first. Begin by drawing a long standing oval shape and then add two more partial oval shapes on either side. Continue to add more partial ovals on either side, but draw them slightly higher. Draw a stalk in the empty space and finish off your pumpkin by adding a stalk and vine!
Explore my previous post How to draw banners easily and decorate them with a fall theme by adding these pumpkin drawings.
More Pumpkin Drawing Ideas
1. Pumpkin Color Drawing
For a Color Pumpkin Drawing, choose two colors of markers- I’ve used an orange and brown here to illustrate the steps clearly. You can choose a orange and a slightly darker orange for a muted look. Start by drawing a wonky oval, and then add more ovals on either side. With your second color, come in between and add more ovals. Draw a stalk and finish off with a vine!
2. Fall Pumpkin Drawing
For a Fall Pumpkin Drawing, try varying the basic oval shape we draw and give it a little squareness. This creates a heirloom pumpkin look and you can draw a few berries and leaves to enhance that feel.
3. Pumpkin with Flowers
To draw a Pumpkin with Flowers, start with a large circle shape, add a face and mouth inside it. On top of the pumpkin, instead of a stalk draw whimsical leaves and flowers!
4. Pumpkin Drawing with BOO
To add typography into your Pumpkin Drawing, it is easier to start with your letters- I wrote BOO and then drew my pumpkin around it. Add a stalk and color and enjoy!
5. how to draw a pumpkin easy step by step
Here is another Pumpkin, that is inspired by the popular plaid fabric pattern. This pumpkin shape is also a little easier for you draw. Start with the stalk and leaf, then draw a oval beneath it. Add the 3D body shape and draw the plaid pattern. Fill it in with color!
6. how to draw a pumpkin face
A Scary Pumpkin is quintessential for October. Start by drawing mouth in a eerie smile. Add huge eyes and small nose. Draw the pumpkin ridges around these features and finish off with a simple stalk.
7. Pumpkin Drawing Watercolor
Fill an entire page with simple pumpkin shapes! This is very relaxing page to create and you can watch me paint this from start to finish in my YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/9Dz7SV-wV14
PUMPKIN CRAFTS BLOG HOP:
My Blog friends from Team Creative Crafts are all sharing new Art Craft tutorials that feature Pumpkins! Make sure to click the links below and enjoy them all!
- Create the most adorable DIY Fall Wreath with Pom Pom Pumpkins by following the tutorial on Laura’s blog Me and My INKlings.
- Learn How to Draw a Pumpkinwith step-by-step instructions from the talented Smitha of Smiling Colors. Download her free printable guide.
- Laura with Laura’s Crafty Life has created a Mini Pumpkin Wreath with easy to find supplies from Dollar Tree. Just gorgeous!
- Create Pumpkin Contact Paper Suncatchers with a quick tutorial from Shani at Sunshine and Munchkins. A fun and easy fall craft for even the littlest crafters.
- So creative and unique, learn how to Make an Easy Mod Podge Map Pumpkin for travel enthusiasts. Justine from Little Dove Blog shows you all the steps.
- Erica from 5 Little Monsters is sharing her Alpine Stitch Crocheted Pumpkin, complete with a full set of patterned instructions, so you can create your own!
- Learn how to make DIY Wooden Pumpkin Blocks with a step-by-step tutorial from Kelsey at Poofy Cheeks and learn what she used to stencil these beauties.
- Katie, the Crafty Blog Stalker is sharing a gorgeous Hand Painted Pumpkin, and we love her color palette of white and gold.
- Simple strips of colored paper have never looked so good then when Chelly from We Can Make That shows us How to Make Paper Pumpkins.
- Jewels and buttons transform into the most elegant Bejeweled Pumpkin Artcreated by the talented Jane of DIY by Jane. Simply stunning!
- Beth with Creatively Beth can transform any found object into a pumpkin with some paint. We think that her Recycled Mini Bundt Pan Pumpkinsare adorable.
- Inspired by her favorite characters, Lindsay of Artsy Fartsy Mama has created No-Sew Fabric Pumpkins. Click through for the full tutorial.
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Natural details
Pumpkins are a natural product and accordingly do not have a smooth, even surface. Instead, there are bumps, spots and structures. Exactly these details provide a natural and realistic-looking drawing.
When drawing such details, it’s worth taking a closer look at different pumpkins and being aware of which details are the most distinctive. We then transfer these details to our drawings.
- The first pumpkin gets a remarkable texture in the different areas of the skin.
- On the second pumpkin, draw some dots and spots.
- The butternut pumpkin is often very smooth – here we just add a few extra lines in the direction of the skin.
With the new details, our pumpkins not only look more natural, but they get much more character.
Add tone values
Since we don’t use colors in our drawing we now add different tonal values.
- On the one hand, you define different color tones with different hatchings. Especially the details should stand out from the rest of the pumpkin.
- On the other hand, you are already using the hatching to shade your pumpkin. Think about from where the light falls on your object.
For the examples, I only use simple parallel hatching. How to hatch correctly and what other possibilities you have to give an object like the pumpkin more plasticity, you will learn in my corresponding article.
Additional shadows
Finally, some additional shadows follow. These include further self-shading by the stalk and, most importantly, a strong drop shadow under the pumpkins (otherwise it looks like our pumpkins are floating in the air).
And we’ve already finished drawing three different pumpkins! Now you know how to draw a pumpkin step by step. This calls for a pot of pumpkin soup, right?
