We’re quite hopeful that our easy step-by-step tutorials will help kids and their parents learn how to draw impressive pumpkins and have fun while doing so. Moreover, there are many creative pumpkin decoration and drawings ideas! The options for decorating your Halloween pumpkins are endless. Whether you want to go classic with a vampire’s face or try something new by utilizing acrylic paints or spray paints, we hope these tutorials have inspired you.
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Contents:
- What to Prepare Before Drawing?
- Easy Step-By-Step Method to Draw a Pumpkin
- Making it Unique: How to Draw a Pumpkin Face
- How to Draw a Cute Pumpkin: Step-By-Step
- How to Draw a Scary Pumpkin: Step-By-Step
- Vampire Face Pumpkin
- Chalkboard Paint Pumpkin
- Poured Paint Pumpkin
- Splatter Paint Pumpkin
Get your drawing stuff ready. What materials must one obtain in advance to draw a pumpkin? You will need a few sheets of drawing paper, an eraser, and a pencil. Prefer HB, B, or 2B graphite pencils whose hardness is medium and the drawn lines are soft. Also, get a felt-tip pen or black fine-tip marker to trace around the outline of the pumpkin after the graphite drawing is complete. Finally, colored pencils, wax crayons, or colored markers will come in handy when you get to the coloring stage. When you have arranged all these art supplies, we can start.
If you’re short on time you can learn to draw a pumpkin step by step in this Youtube Video, if not, you may follow our tutorials below!
Easy Step-By-Step Method to Draw a Pumpkin
As promised, here is the easiest step-by-step drawing tutorial to help you draw a pumpkin. We all love pumpkins, and if you’re looking for an easy way to draw a great-looking pumpkin our step-by-step guide will make the process incredibly simple for you. Whether it’s a Halloween or the fall season drawing session. Just ten straightforward steps and you will be able to draw a simple but reasonably realistic-looking pumpkin!
Step 1
The first step of this tutorial involves drawing two curved shapes. You will start by drawing a letter C on the left and an inverted “C” in the right-hand corner, as shown below:
Step 2
Next, you need to connect the top and bottom of your arch by drawing three more arches. Make sure you use exactly six ends in total—two on either side for stability as well.
Step 3
Take a look at the pumpkin’s middle arch and draw two curved lines to create its first rib. This one can be wider than other parts of your design, so it might not always fit with what you’re doing!
Step 4
Your pumpkin is taking form! Now draw two more curves, and you’ll have a pumpkin!
Step 5
From the middle of your pumpkin, draw two curved lines that extend to a point on top to create an elegant stem for the pumpkin.
Step 6
Now, draw a small circle on top of the curved lines that are meant to be the pumpkin’s stem, to complete it.
Step 7
Next, add a line to the left of the stem that looks like two small arches, as shown below…
Step 8
Now draw another line on the right, that looks exactly like the one you drew in Step 7 above.
Step 9
You’ve basically completed drawing your pumpkin. Now as a cool finishing touch you’ll draw a small vine starting from the stem.
And that’s it. You’ve learned to draw a realistic pumpkin!
Step 10
In the end, you’ll fill in the colors in your drawing. We recommend that you experiment with shades of orange and yellow.
Making it Unique: How to Draw a Pumpkin Face
Now, that you know how to draw a simple but realistic pumpkin, it is time to step up your drawing game and draw pumpkins with different faces on them. Before you know it, you’ll be drawing Halloween pumpkins and cartoonish pumpkins for your school art projects with great ease. Let’s carry on!
How to Draw a Cute Pumpkin: Step-By-Step
Let us learn to draw a pumpkin with a cute face. Just follow the tutorial steps below.
Step 1
Initially, you’ll draw the outer outline for your pumpkin.
Create an even circle and decide on the drawing size of your pumpkin.
Step 2
Next, we’ll add some details inside the circle you drew in Step 1.
You need to draw to depict the stem of the pumpkin, as shown below:
Step 3
Now we’ll draw the inner relief of the pumpkin.
Draw another oval in the middle of the pumpkin that is evenly shaped.
Step 4
Sketch out two similar reliefs from the even oval in the middle to the sides of the initial circle.
You will now have a rounded and smooth line on each side.
Step 5
Now again we add more details to our pumpkin.
Draw some more smooth rounded lines that’ll touch the edges of the outer outline of the pumpkin.
Step 6
Now that we have drawn the basic shape of our pumpkin. We’ll add our required facial features. Draw two eyes and a smiling mouth.
Step 7
In this step, we’ll get back to detailing the pumpkin. Add details to the stalk of the pumpkin.
Draw two arched lines on the top edge of the pumpkin and draw two more straight lines inside the stalk.
Step 8
Now we’ll correct any inaccuracies left in our drawing.
Using your eraser from your art supplies, carefully rub off all extra lines. Your cute drawing of a pumpkin is now complete.
Step 9
Here comes the fun part. Fill in the cute pumpkin with colors of your choice.
It’s best to use orange for the body and green for the stalk of the cute pumpkin, as shown below:
You can also find and download various design references and stencils for cute faces on the Web that you may use as inspiration for drawing a pumpkin face.
How to Draw a Scary Pumpkin: Step-By-Step
Now, that you’ve learned how to draw a cute pumpkin, let us move to the opposite side of the spectrum and draw a scary pumpkin. This will get you on track to creating a variety of spooky pumpkins most suited for Halloween. Let’s get drawing!
Step 1
To begin, draw a large circle to use as the basic shape of your scary pumpkin. Next, draw another oval shape on the side of the first circle near the top. The root of the pumpkin will be drawn here.
Step 2
You will now draw the eyes, a nose, and a mouth in the circle shape of the pumpkin. In the reference image below, you can see the traditional style for a scary face. You can go with these or draw shapes according to your own preferences.
Step 3
Now we’ll add details around the facial features of the pumpkin as highlighted with the red lines shown below in the image.
These details will add depth to the holes for the eyes, nose, and mouth. In this step, we’ll also add a shape that looks like a broken root. This is drawn on top of the pumpkin and starts from the oval shape.
Step 4
Now we’ll add ribbed sections to the pumpkin. Draw four lines down the face starting at the top and down to the bottom point of the pumpkin. For reference see the image above. Don’t forget to leave spaces between each line you draw. Now add a couple of lines on the pumpkin root at the top.
Step 5
Now we add some more lines to depict the skin of the pumpkin. Draw these lines from the top down to the bottom. All around the rest of the body of the pumpkin. See image below.
Step 6
The body of your scary pumpkin is now ready. All the lines are clearly showing the details of the body and face of the pumpkin. You must admit that you’ve done a great job!
Step 7
Finally, we’ll color the eyes, nose, and the inside of the mouth area with black. This adds the effect of real holes to the face of the pumpkin.
And voila! You have completely drawn a heart-stopping pumpkin for Halloween.
