How to Draw a Carving a Pumpkin

Step 1: The open top

Above the middle of your paper draw a flat oval. Draw a smaller oval inside it. This is the hole.

Tip Leave lots of room underneath for the pumpkin.

Step 2: Round pumpkin

Start at the oval's left end. Draw a fat pumpkin with a bumpy bottom. Stop at its right end.

Tip Go up a little first to make a shoulder, then round and down.

Step 3: Curved ribs

On each side draw 2 curved lines. Start on the oval and stop at a dip in the bumpy bottom.

Tip Each rib bows outwards, like the side of a ball.

Step 4: Eyes and nose

In the middle part draw 2 triangle eyes. Draw a smaller triangle nose between and below them.

Tip Keep them away from the rib lines.

Step 5: Toothy grin

Under the nose draw a wide smile like a slice of melon, with 1 square tooth up and 1 down.

Step 6: The lid

To the right of the pumpkin draw the lid: a low hill with a flat bottom.

Tip Make it as wide as the hole, because it came from there.

Step 7: Stem on the lid

On top of the lid draw a bent stem. Add 2 curved lines from the stem down to the bottom.

Step 8: Pile of seeds

To the left of the pumpkin draw 3 pointy seeds standing in a row. Tuck 2 more behind them.

Tip Each seed is a teardrop with its point at the top.

Step 9: The ground

Start near the left edge of your paper. Draw a ground line under everything. Stop near the right edge.

Tip Lift your pencil where the pumpkin, the lid and the seeds sit on the line.

Step 10: Scooping spoon

Start behind the seeds. Draw a handle up to an egg bowl resting on the pumpkin. Add a curve inside.

Step 11: Yellow glow

Colour the small oval, the eyes, the nose and the grin yellow.

Step 12: Cream seeds

Colour the 5 seeds and the ring round the hole cream, a very pale yellow.

Step 13: Orange pumpkin

Colour the pumpkin and its lid orange, around the yellow face.

Step 14: Green stem, grey spoon

Colour the stem green and the spoon grey. Go over your lines. Your pumpkin is carved!