Good afternoon! A new drawing lesson, as always, is already waiting for you on our website, and today we will tell you about how to draw a pumpkin. The lesson is very simple, however, as you can see in the title of the article and in the last step of the lesson, our pumpkin should look quite realistic.
It may seem that our main character becomes incredibly important only. In fact, it not only perfectly copes with the role of demonstrating the horrors of the demonic world, the door to which opens on All Saints' Day, but also perfectly complements boiled semolina. Let's get started with this tutorial and find out!
Step 1
First, draw a flattened oval. It may well not be quite even - as in our sample.
Step 2
Then, at the top of this oval, draw a pumpkin tail. Please note that almost all of it is inside the outline of the pumpkin.
Step 3
This step will be especially important. Here we must mark our pumpkin with smooth lines into segments that are very close in size. Pay attention - the parts of the fetus that are closest to us look much larger and wider than the distant ones. Another point is that the lines of the segments become more and more intensively located as they move away from us.
Step 4
Let's work on the tail. Erase the extra lines so that it does not seem transparent. Then draw a circle at its tip to indicate the thickness. Finally, draw the outline of the ponytail with clear, confident lines and outline a few light lines inside, closer to the tip.
Here we will finish the lower parts of the pumpkin segments.
Step 5
We complete the lesson by applying light hatching to our pumpkin. Pay attention, the light falls to the left of us, so we will shade the right parts of the segments. As you can see, the shadow here is quite simple - just a regular hatching. The density of the shadow is regulated by the degree of pressure on the pencil.
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I received many letters asking me to show how to draw a pumpkin, and this is not surprising, because Halloween is coming soon. Once I already touched on this topic, we drew. The attributes of this holiday are very diverse, so we will gradually expand this topic. Let's start with this picture: Pumpkin - she's a pampkin, she's a garden scarecrow, she's a scary head, she's also a symbol of Halloween. People have always loved to scare each other with scary stories about Frankenstein flying (read skull, not turtle!), spreading plague and scaring a cat. But scaring your brother is not so easy. For this you need at least a scary costume and a modicum of acting skills. After scratching their turnips, everyone decided that it would be cheap and cheerful to use a pumpkin for these purposes. Although my mother taught me not to play with food, but the faces from it are very scary and varied. The more perverted the artist's fantasy, the more terrible they turn out. Let's fantasize together, try to portray it following this instruction:
How to draw a pumpkin with a pencil step by step
Step one. We draw a rectangular shape into which we enter the oval shape of a pumpkin and add another stalk, or a stem, or a root, or whatever it is on top of it. 
Step two. Set the eye level and add a smile from ear to ear. 
Step three. Let's make vertical stripes like a zebra, and draw the eyes, nose and sinister smile. 
Step four. It remains to add shadows. Let's darken some areas, try to repeat like here: 
That's it. Show me how you got pumpkins for Halloween. And I also advise you to try to depict other symbols of this holiday.
A pumpkin drawn with a pencil and painted with paints or other materials looks very bright and beautiful. These vegetables are widespread and have long been used not only for cooking all kinds of dishes, but also for decoration. For example, on Halloween, Americans make bizarre and very frightening lamps out of pumpkins. Also, florists often use a pumpkin as an original vase in which you can place any bouquet. Many people who want to depict an original autumn still life think about how to draw a pumpkin. The easiest way to understand how to draw a pumpkin is to draw this vegetable directly from nature. You can also draw a pumpkin from a photograph, or from a picture of some famous master.
Before you draw a pumpkin in stages, you need to prepare:
one). Eraser;
2). Pencil;
3). A piece of paper;
four). multi-colored pencils;
5). Liner.
A pumpkin is drawn in several stages:
1. Pumpkins come in many shapes. The most common are round and oblong pumpkins. Draw the outlines of two pumpkins - make one round and the other oblong;
2. Draw grooves on the round pumpkin;
3. Draw a thick stem in the middle of the round pumpkin;
4. On an oblong pumpkin, draw stripes;
5. Now you understand how to draw a pumpkin with a pencil step by step. To make the drawing look clear, circle it with a liner;
6. Erase the pencil sketch of the pumpkin with an eraser;
7. Paint over a round pumpkin with pencils in a yellowish-orange scale;
8. Paint over the stalk of a round pumpkin with green, marsh and yellow pencils;
9. Paint the second pumpkin with different shades of green. Make the stripes on it yellowish-green.
The drawing of pumpkins is ready. Now you understand how to draw a pumpkin with a pencil step by step for beginners. In this case, the pumpkins were depicted using the most common multi-colored pencils. But this does not mean at all that they cannot be painted with a variety of colors or, for example, with bright felt-tip pens. Professional artists often use oil, acrylic or watercolor paints to create still lifes. For beginners, watercolor is best, as it is relatively inexpensive, and it is much easier to write with it than, for example, with oil. The main thing, when drawing a still life with pumpkins, is to use thick and high-quality paper, for example, such as whatman paper, as well as good brushes.
Autumn. Beautiful, a little sad and always magical. Its color is like a playful bright fire before the restraint and wisdom of winter. The earth is full of harvest and generously shares its fruits with us. What could be more beautiful than a magnificent pumpkin queen, bunches of grapes, a basket of apples, a basket of mushrooms ... can you list everything! Let's draw cute autumn pumpkins.
To paint a wooden board using the double stroke technique, we need:
1. We skin the board, primer and dry.
2. Before painting our pumpkins, let's prepare the background for painting. We paint the board with Ivory color, which will then appear through scuffs.
3. We rub the painted surface with a candle, but we do it gently, with a light layer. Too thick application will not allow the next layer of paint to firmly fix on the surface.
4. Now our task is to create an autumn range for the background for painting. We need warm, ocher and green shades. We spread the paints on the palette and apply them to the board one by one, without washing off the brush, but as if connecting the colors with each other.
You can start with a yellow-green scale, and then add ocher-brown shades.
5. At the end of the work, we pass over the entire surface with a wide, slightly damp and clean brush to even out the color transitions. And be sure to paint the sides of the product.
6. Gently sand the dried surface, exposing the lower light background. We do this over the entire surface, but the main emphasis is on the outline of the board and the edge.
7. We cover the finished background with varnish. This will make it possible for the paint (top layer) to fix on the surface and it will no longer be damaged during painting.
8. You can move on to drawing pumpkins. It is better to practice a little with a pencil on paper. We outline a circle, set a point just above the center from which pumpkin slices will come out and draw arcs from this point in all directions. From above we draw a stalk.
9. We will draw pumpkins using the “double stroke” technique. To do this, we collect three colors on the brush. It is done like this. We dip one tip of the brush in yellow, the other in orange and draw back and forth across the palette. It turns out a soft yellow-orange transition, and then we pick up a dark brown color at the very tip of the orange.
10. First, let's practice drawing a pumpkin on paper. We take our three-color brush and draw pumpkin slices, making them thinner on top and bottom. At the end, add a plump tail. Instead of brown, you can add green, then our pumpkins will be very picturesque.
11. Let's move on to painting the board. Here you can not draw with a pencil, it injures the surface. Therefore, we will draw them in white along the outline. And also paint over our slices with white, this will be an underpainting for painting, so that the tone looks brighter.
12. We paint pumpkins. At the same time, on each slice, we place a brush with light paint on one side. We try to make the range of pumpkins varied, adding, in addition to yellow and orange, reddish hues, brown and green.
13. Be sure to write highlights on the sides of the pumpkins and spots, making their color more natural.
14. Pumpkins are ready, you can do the details - finish the leaves, antennae spirals, autumn leaves, etc. For inspiration, you can take a maple leaf (maple leaves look a bit like pumpkin leaves), circle it along the contour and practice drawing it on paper in the “double stroke” style using a yellow-green gamut.
15. We enter the leaves closer to the handle. They may not all be written out in front, some, as it were, turned around and only part of the leaflet is visible.
16. Adding other details. With a thin brush on weight we draw the springs of the antennae - we twist the spirals in different directions, we dilute the paint thinner. We finish drawing - we circle the leaves with a bronze contour.
17. Add a couple of autumn maple leaves along the edge of the board, our composition is ready.
9. Be sure to cover our product with a finishing varnish at the end of the painting, dry it. If the product is intended for decoration, then we also cover the back with paint and varnish. A wonderful handmade product must be shown to loved ones by inviting them to a home holiday. Autumn is the time for harvest, treats and fairy tales!
Artist: Aelita Rada
Pumpkins come in many varieties. Their shape and size, and sometimes even color, depend on this. Our pumpkin in today's master class for beginner artists will not belong to any particular variety. And the very shape and color make it clear even to a child that you have a pumpkin in front of you.
Thanks to the breakdown into stages, it will not be difficult to cope with drawing a pumpkin.
Drawing a pumpkin, like any other vegetable or fruit, begins with a sketch. You can even place a real pumpkin or just a photo of it in front of you. Then drawing will be much easier. However, if there is none of the proposed options, then repeat step by step all the steps in this lesson. As a result, you will get a drawing of a yellow-orange pumpkin, which will be very similar to the real one.
Necessary materials:
- black thin marker or felt-tip pen;
- simple pencil;
- paper;
- colored pencils in brown, orange and yellow;
- eraser.
Drawing steps:
- We start drawing a pumpkin with one part, which will be located in the middle. We draw an oval. The shape must be oblong.
- To the first oval, draw one more on the sides.
- We draw a small branch at the top of the pumpkin.
- Let's add one more oval on the sides. However, they will be half invisible due to the previous ovals.
- Finally, in the distance, draw the last parts of the pumpkin. Some will only be visible at the top.
- To make the step-by-step pumpkin drawing look brighter and more saturated, we will make it contour using a black marker or felt-tip pen. For this purpose, it is better to take a tool with a thin tip so that the lines are neat. Draw each line exactly along the drawn pencil line.
- Now we take colored pencils of brown and yellow tones. We paint the upper part of the pumpkin with them. With a yellow pencil, completely color the object, but with a brown one, create shadows.
- Let's move on to the pumpkin itself and apply a yellow tint to its side parts.
- Paint over the white areas on the pumpkin with an orange pencil. This will create volume for our fetus.
