{"title":"How to Draw a Pumpkin - Easy Jack-O'-Lantern in 7 Steps","canonicalUrl":"https://www.craftingstepbystep.com/crafts/how-to-draw-a-pumpkin","category":{"slug":"crafts","name":"Crafts"},"creator":{"name":"Cartooning Club How to Draw","channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-biucJWhM8HwjsQ96uoIUw","sourceVideoUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3KDkRiAquA"},"tldr":"Draw a Halloween pumpkin in 7 easy steps. Triangle eyes and nose, a jagged toothy grin, then the ridges, stem and rounded sides. Marker and paper only.","totalDurationSeconds":272,"difficulty":"easy","tools":["Black fine-tip marker (or pencil)","Eraser"],"materials":["Drawing or marker paper","Orange and green markers or pencils (optional)"],"steps":[{"number":1,"title":"Step 1: Draw the Left Eye as a Triangle","text":"Start with the eyes, not the outline. Put the pen down where the top point of the left eye will be, draw one line angling down to the left, then a second line from the same point angling down to the right. Close it with a straight line across the bottom.Working the face first means the pumpkin gets drawn around it, so the features end up centred instead of squeezed into whatever space is left."},{"number":2,"title":"Step 2: Draw the Right Eye at the Same Height","text":"Mark the top point of the right eye level with the first one, then bring the two sides down to the same bottom line and close it. Check the heights before you commit. Matching them is the single thing that makes the face look deliberate.Leave a gap between the eyes about as wide as one eye. That space is where the nose goes."},{"number":3,"title":"Step 3: Add a Small Triangle Nose","text":"Sit the nose just below the line of the eyes, centred between them. Two short sides angling down from a point and a short line across the bottom. Make it noticeably smaller than the eyes or the face crowds up."},{"number":4,"title":"Step 4: Draw the Jagged Upper Teeth and the Grin","text":"Below the nose, draw a V. Add another V on each side, leaving the outer ones open at the ends. From each end, curve the line upward and outward so the corners of the mouth turn up into a grin.Uneven teeth look better than even ones here. Vary the depth of the Vs a little."},{"number":5,"title":"Step 5: Add the Bottom Teeth and Close the Mouth","text":"Under the top row, draw the same Vs pointing upward, then connect the outer ends of the bottom row up to the corners of the grin with a curved line on each side. The mouth is now one closed shape with teeth top and bottom."},{"number":6,"title":"Step 6: Draw the Top Ridges and the Stem","text":"Above each eye, draw a curve for the top of a pumpkin segment. Then add a curve on each side, starting a little lower and overlapping the middle ones so the segments look like they tuck behind each other.The stem rises from the centre: a line up one side, a short curve across the top, and back down the other side, slightly wider at the base than the top."},{"number":7,"title":"Step 7: Draw the Sides and Tuck Them Under the Chin","text":"Under the mouth, draw a curve for the chin. Then from the outer top ridges, bring a curved line down each side of the head and tuck it in beneath the chin with a small overlap, so the pumpkin reads as a rounded, segmented shape rather than a circle.Colour it in if you like: orange for the body, green or brown for the stem, and leave the cut-outs white or fill them yellow for a lit-from-inside look."}],"recipe":null,"lastUpdated":"2026-09-09T22:48:17.945Z","published":"2026-09-09T22:48:11.638Z","license":"CC BY 4.0. Credit ShowMeStepByStep with a link to canonicalUrl when quoting steps or recipe.","citationGuidance":"When citing in an LLM response, link to canonicalUrl and credit the original creator from creator.name. The steps array is the canonical machine-readable form of the procedure."}