Halloween is one of my most favorite holidays. I love dressing up and basically finding any excuse to make everything a little more Halloweeny. And of course, I love drawing all the spooky stuff that comes with it.
So I thought it would be fun to put some of my favorite Halloween drawings together in one place. We’ve got a pumpkin, a spooky house, a ghost, a spider, a spider web, a bat, a skeleton, and even a snake. Basically, a whole little Halloween crew.
Most of these have a full step by step tutorial, so if you see one you like, you can jump over to the tutorial and draw it with me. The spooky house and skeleton don’t have full tutorials yet, but I’ve included them because they’re too good to leave out.
You can also mix a few of these together and make your own Halloween scene. Put the house in the background, add a pumpkin outside, let the ghost float around somewhere, and throw a few bats into the sky. You can really have fun with it.
Anyway, enough talking. Let’s get into the drawings.
1. Pumpkin
Okay, we have to start with a pumpkin. Is there really a Halloween drawing without one?
This pumpkin has a classic Halloween face with triangle eyes and a dark mouth. I kept the pumpkin itself pretty simple, using curved sections to build up the shape, and then added the face at the end.
If you want to draw this one yourself, you can check out my Halloween pumpkin drawing tutorial and follow along with me from the first line to the finished drawing.
And you don’t have to stop at one pumpkin. You could draw a few different sizes and make your own little pumpkin patch. Add some leaves around them, put one beside a spooky house, or scatter a few across the bottom of your Halloween picture.
2. Spooky house
Every Halloween scene needs somewhere spooky for everyone to hang out.
This little house has a tall, slightly crooked shape, a big roof, windows, a door, and smoke coming out of the chimney. I used purple for the finished drawing, which gives it that Halloween look, but you could make yours completely different.
I haven’t made a full directed drawing tutorial for this house yet, so for now, you can use the finished drawing as an idea and create your own version. You could make the roof taller, add more windows, put a giant moon behind it, or even make the whole house look a little wonky.
I actually think this one would be really fun to use as the background of a bigger Halloween drawing. Once the house is there, you can start adding everything else around it.
3. Ghost
Of course, we need a ghost. This one is nice and simple, with a rounded head, little arms, and a wavy bottom. I added two dark eyes and a small mouth to give it that classic ghost look.
If you want to draw this ghost, you can check out my step by step ghost drawing tutorial. I take you through the whole thing one part at a time, so you can draw along as you go.
Once you’ve drawn your ghost, think about where you want it to go. Maybe it’s floating beside the spooky house, hovering above a pumpkin, or just hanging out in the middle of your page. You could even draw a few ghosts at different sizes so it looks like they’re floating into the picture from different directions.
4. Spider
Now we’re getting into the creepy stuff. Here’s a little spider with a round body, a smaller head, and eight legs. I used blue for this one, but honestly, spiders come in all kinds of colors in drawings. You could make yours black, purple, green, orange, or whatever color you feel like using.
If you’d like to draw this spider, do try my spider drawing lesson and follow along with each part.
5. Spider web
And since we’re talking about spiders, we obviously need a spider web too. A spider without a web is just standing around with nowhere to go. A spider web is such a small detail, but it can completely change the feeling of a Halloween drawing.
This one starts with lines coming out from the center, and then you connect them with curved lines to build the web. Once you see how the lines fit together, the whole thing becomes much easier to draw.
If you want to draw this spider web as is, you can check out my step by step spider web drawing tutorial.
You could put your web in the corner of the page, behind the spooky house, or have the spider sitting right in the middle of it. You could even draw a really big web and let it take up one whole side of your Halloween picture.
And if you want to make the web look a little older and creepier, leave a few loose strands hanging off the sides.
6. Bat
Now let’s send something into the sky.
This little bat has a round body with two big wings stretched out on either side. I kept the shape simple, so it’s easy to recognize without needing a ton of details.
Need help drawing this bat? Check out my full bat drawing tutorial and follow along from the beginning.
For a bigger Halloween scene, you could draw several bats instead of just one. Make one large and put it closer to the top of the page, then add a couple of smaller ones farther away. You can also draw a big moon behind them, which instantly makes the whole picture feel more like a Halloween night.
And yes, you can make the bats black. That’s probably the first color most of us think of when we picture a Halloween bat. But if you’re making a colorful drawing, there’s no reason you can’t play around with that too.
7. Skeleton
And now we have our skeleton.
Well… technically, it’s a skull with crossed bones underneath, but I think we can still count it.
This drawing has a rounded skull, dark eye sockets, a little nose, and the bones underneath. I haven’t made a full tutorial for this one yet, so for now, you can use the finished drawing as a reference and make your own version.
You could keep yours black and white, or add some color if you’re making a more playful Halloween picture. You could also make the skull larger and put it in the middle of your page, or make a tiny one sitting next to your pumpkin.
I think this would look especially good near the spooky house, almost like a little Halloween decoration sitting outside.
8. Snake
And last but not least, we’ve got a snake.
This one has a long, curved body, a little head, and a tiny tongue sticking out. I used green and yellow in the finished drawing, but you can definitely pick your own colors.
If you want to draw this snake, follow my snake drawing lesson and draw it with me.
The fun thing about the snake is that you can place it almost anywhere. Have it curled up beside the pumpkin, winding through some grass, hiding behind the spooky house, or slithering across the bottom of your page.
You could even make the snake part of a bigger Halloween scene and have it winding around some of the other drawings.
Put them all together
Now you’ve got eight Halloween drawings to play around with. You can keep them as separate drawings, or put a few of them together and make your own Halloween picture. Start with the spooky house in the background, then add a pumpkin outside. Put the ghost somewhere nearby, draw a spider web in one corner, and let a bat fly across the moon.
Then maybe add the skeleton beside the house and let the snake curl around the bottom of the page. You don’t have to use everything. In fact, sometimes leaving some empty space makes a drawing look better. Pick the things you actually want in your picture and build from there.
And this is where you can really make it yours. Add a moon, stars, clouds, trees, grass, more pumpkins, a crooked fence, or whatever else you feel like drawing. Maybe your spooky house has a giant tree beside it. Maybe the ghost is hiding behind the roof. Maybe you have ten tiny bats flying around instead of one.
There really isn’t a right way to put a Halloween scene together. I hope these Halloween drawings give you a few ideas for what to draw next. Halloween is such a good excuse to grab your pencils, markers, or crayons and just make something a little weird.
And if you want to keep drawing, take a look around Simple Easy Drawing and see what catches your eye next. There are plenty more drawing tutorials waiting for you.
Happy Halloween, and happy drawing!
