How to Draw a Ghost

In today’s drawing tutorial you will learn how to draw a ghost.

Just follow our step-by-step ghost drawing tutorial and you’ll be drawing friendly (or scary) ghosts in no time.

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When it comes to drawing a ghost, everything depends on its facial expression: you can make a scary ghost, a nice one, a silly one… It’s all on the face. With these words, let’s draw a friendly ghost that is not scary.

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how to draw a ghost

What do you need:

• our printable template (optional)
• paper
• black pencil or marker

Guide to drawing ghosts step by step

step 1

Start by drawing a curved shape (like an upside down letter U). This will be the top of the mind’s head.

2nd step

Draw hands: you can simply hold them, draw U-shapes or make them more detailed.

step 3

Let’s start working on the body. Start on the left side by drawing a curved line down from the hand.

step 4

Now move to the right and draw another curved line ending above the first one.

step 5

Complete with curled “tail”.

step 6

Now comes the face. If you want your ghost to look happy, draw “normal” eyes and a “moon” mouth. That way your ghost won’t look scary at all.

If you want a spooky one, color the eyes black and draw the “moon” shape with the ends down. You can even add a diagonal line across the eyes to enrage the ghost. Isn’t it scary?

Done, you’ve learned how to draw a ghost!

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