Witches typically wear long dresses and pointy hats.
Halloween involves dressing up to portray a character. Classic Halloween characters include ghosts, witches, vampires and monsters. Though most costumes feature human-like characters, non-human characters like monsters and ghosts, often seem scarier or more ferocious than human characters due to their supernatural appearance. To draw a more realistic Halloween character, use pictures of people dressed in Halloween characters as a reference.
Instructions
Witch
1. Draw a long oval to create the outline of the head. Draw a line down the horizontal and vertical middle of the head.
2. Attach the head to a body. Draw a wide, short neck that extends outward from the chin. From the neck, draw a short diagonal line that represents the shoulder. There should be one line on each side. Draw a curved chest that extends from the shoulders. At the end of the chest, draw a short, wide waist. Curve the waist outward creating a wide semi-circle hip. The witch's hips should be wide and her body should be short. Add short, stubby legs by drawing a rectangle that extends from his hip to the floor.
3. Add arms. The arms should be thin rectangles that extend from the shoulder to the hips. At the end of the arm, draw a rectangular hand with long, thin fingers and long finger nails. Draw one arm on the left side and one arm on the right side.
4. Add facial features. Draw small, almond shaped eyes at the horizontal half-way point of the face. The eyes should rest at the 1/4 and 3/4-points of the horizontal line that dissects the face. Draw a curved line that extends from just below the eyes. This line should curve to the right then hook under, creating a hook-shaped witch nose. Draw a short, flat line under the nose to create a mouth.
5. Draw a long, tall triangle over the top of the head. The base of the triangle should hit the mid-forehead. At the end of the triangle, add a rounded line. This creates the base of the hat.
6. Add the witch's dress. Draw a scoop neckline that extends from the middle of the right shoulder to the middle of the left shoulder. Draw the right sleeve by drawing a line from the right shoulder to the end of the arm. Draw another line that extends from the inside of the arm to the armpit. Connect the two lines of the sleeve with a wavy line to finish the sleeve. Draw another line on the left side. Extend the sleeves into a dress by drawing a line from the armpit to the ankles. Connect the ends of the dress with a waxy line.
Monster
7. Draw a rounded shape for the body. Many monsters have an egg shaped body with no head. Other monsters have a rectangular or cylindrical body. Draw only the outline of the body.
8. Add a rounded shape over the head. The rounded bottom of the head should intersect with the rounded top of the body.
9. Add legs that extend from the bottom of the body. An average monster has thick legs that end in clawed feet. You may wish to draw legs that are very short and thick or very long and thin. Draw arms of similar proportions near the top of the body. You may wish to draw more than two arms or legs, giving the monster anywhere from two to twenty appendages.
10. Add facial features to the monster. Draw anywhere from one to several dozen eyes by drawing a series of rounded circles with dots in the middle. Draw a flat oval for a mouth. Add spaced triangles for teeth.
11. Draw features unique to monsters. Draw a tail by drawing a long, curved line from the bottom of the back. Extend the tail towards the right or left, ending it in an oval or triangle shape. Draw a horn above each eye or add bat-like wings to each side of the monster.
Ghost
12. Draw a large, round circle.
13. Place your pencil on the right-side of the circle, in the center of the circle. Draw a curvy line that extends downwards. Move the pencil to the middle-left side of the circle and draw a curvy line that extends downwards. Connect the vertical lines with a wavy horizontal line.
14. Place you pencil on the center-right point of the circle. Draw a curved line that moves upwards and outwards. Curve the top of the line around and down, creating a circular shape. Connect the edge of this circle to the body of the ghost with a diagonal line to create the arm. Draw a similar arm on the other side.
15. Draw two circular eyes near the top of the circle. Draw an oval nose slightly below the eyes, near the center of the face. Draw a half-moon mouth that faces downwards. The half-moon should sit below the nose.
16. Outline the shape of the ghost and erase any stray markings or lines.
