Halloween drawings with colored pencil

All children, without exception, love to draw. This activity is not only incredibly exciting, but also has certain benefits. Thus, while drawing, the child actively develops perseverance and concentration, creative and imaginative thinking, as well as fine motor skills of the fingers, which is very important for improving the speech center.

The creation of children's drawings can be timed to coincide with a specific holiday or event. In particular, on the eve of Halloween, or All Saints' Day, every child will want to draw a thematic picture associated with this folklore holiday with their own hands. In this article we will tell you what Halloween-themed drawings can be made for children of different ages.

How to draw a picture for Halloween?

The most important symbol of All Saints' Day is the pumpkin. It is this vegetable that can most often be seen in thematic drawings dedicated to the celebration of Halloween. Usually a pumpkin is painted with paints or pencils of appropriate colors, after which a large mouth with white teeth, large eyes, as well as small rectangular eyebrows and a tail-cap are depicted on it. If your child likes to make appliqués, these elements can be cut out of paper and pasted onto a picture of a pumpkin. This way you will get an even more interesting craft dedicated to the holiday, which combines drawing and appliqué.

Another, no less popular option is a drawing of a witch. This fairy-tale creature is most often depicted flying on a broom, however, if desired, you can display any plot situation in the picture. Ghosts and apparitions are also a very hot topic. Moreover, drawings about Halloween depicting these frightening creatures are very easy to draw, and even a small child can cope with this task on their own.

Other representatives of otherworldly forces - devils, demons, vampires, devils and so on - are also often painted on the eve of All Saints' Day. As a rule, black, purple, red and green shades prevail in such designs. Meanwhile, if you wish, you can draw a picture for Halloween using any combination of colors.

Black cats, bats, spiders and other creatures, one way or another connected with the world of evil spirits, can become the main element of a drawing dedicated to the celebration of Halloween. As a rule, they are depicted in combination with other symbols of All Saints' Day. In particular, a black cat is considered a constant companion of a witch, so it almost always accompanies its owner in such pictures.

Halloween drawings can be drawn with a pencil or paints. Typically, children draw the outlines of the characters and the necessary elements of the drawing using a simple pencil, and then color their masterpiece with colored pencils or paints. At the same time, gouache or watercolor must be used to imitate blood stains, otherwise the picture turns out to be completely unrealistic.

Any drawing can be designed as an independent craft or used to create a Halloween greeting card. In this case, the finished picture should be pasted onto a sheet of cardboard folded in half, the congratulation text should be written in neat handwriting and, if necessary, a lock, lacing or other decorative elements should be added. If you plan to hang the drawing on the wall to decorate the interior or give it to someone close, just place it in a frame.

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Drawing Halloween is not difficult. It can be depicted using objects that we certainly associate with this holiday. This includes a black cat, a broom, spiders and cobwebs, and of course, a pumpkin with an ominous grin. It seems like no Halloween is complete without such a pumpkin. To begin, you need to outline the main items on a blank sheet of paper. We outline them schematically using sticks and ovals. We can top our pumpkin with a distinctive hat to make it more in keeping with the holiday. These pictures show how this can be done.

You can end up with such a not at all scary, but very cute picture.

The task of “draw Halloween” usually refers to a set of holiday supplies and symbols suitable for this date.

While showing the step-by-step creation of such a drawing, we cannot simultaneously show the step-by-step drawing of each of its components. Therefore, we will limit ourselves to showing the layout of the “Halloween” picture and some accompanying techniques for designing a pencil drawing.

1. The main symbol representing the holiday of evil spirits is traditionally a pumpkin with a face on it. To prevent the pumpkin from getting bored, add a few apples, maybe wormy ones:

2.And now - an ominous cat and finishing the face on the pumpkin:

3. A terrible skull and two candles burning on either side of it:

4. Plumes of suffocating smoke around:

5.The picture will look very good with a combination of black and red colors:

Drawing lesson on Halloween theme. Now you will learn how to draw a Halloween picture with a pencil step by step. Let's draw a dark night, the moon is shining, there is an old tree with pumpkins in the background, bats are flying around, a ghost and a witch on a broom with a black cat, creepy. The Halloween holiday in this form, which now with costumes and painted faces in corpses, appeared relatively recently in the 19th-20th century. And this holiday originates from the Celtic people, who celebrated the end of the harvest in Scotland and Ireland, and was called Samhain. The holiday took place on the night from October 31 to November 1, later it was renamed All Saints' Day with the arrival of Catholics, which was celebrated on November 1. With the migration of peoples, this holiday became popular in North America, famous pumpkin lamps appeared, because... the product is cheap, and later they began to dress up in different costumes of the dead. On Halloween, children dress up in different costumes and go door to door asking for candy. And now there are whole carnivals and shows on Halloween.

Here is our goal - to draw a Halloween picture.

This is the original, as you can see, I added more elements to the drawing.

We draw a circle and draw a curve below, which shows us a clearing.

Erase the bottom part of the circle. Let's draw the trunk of an old sawn tree and branches.

The tree is all covered with growths and gnarled, we draw all these snags in free form.

An owl sits at the very top, draw its silhouette, and two pumpkins are suspended on the same branch.

Draw the eyes of the owl and the eyes and mouth of the Halloween pumpkins.

Draw grass and flowers, mark the teeth in the mouth on the pumpkins. Let's start drawing bats.

We finish drawing the shape and begin to paint over the silhouettes. The eyes and mouth are sacred, so we leave them untouched.

We paint over the tree and the clearing; when painting, the shape of the tree can be supplemented with additional elements, or you can leave the original sketch.

Draw a web with a spider under the lower branch to the left of the tree trunk, on the right - draw a ghost. In the distance, draw a flock of bats.

We'll have a cloudy Halloween night. Drawing clouds.

We draw horizontal lines on the outer side of the moon, and in a light tone we also show the haze on the moon (clouds).

Erase the outline of the moon and draw a silhouette of a witch on a broom with a cat. The next picture is a larger version.

In the head, the main thing you can see is the nose and chin, so it turns out to be a slingshot sideways, a triangle hat on top, a crooked back, two hands holding a broom, a cloak dangling, and two legs too. The cat ruffled his hair in horror and stood in a protective pose, his back arched.

To make the tone uniform, you can shade it a little, just don’t touch the elements against the background of the moon, they should be clear. Shade the sky, earth, clouds. That's it, we have drawn a drawing for Halloween. Pat yourself on the back :).

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