Halloween Tricks n' Treats

Draw a Pumpkin Cartoony Lesson

How to use basic shapes to create new things.

By Chris Dunmire | Posted 10/27/23 | Updated 9/19/24

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." —Thomas Merton

Here's a simple drawing of the popular orange gourd, known for it's more popular name: pumpkin.

When you look at objects in nature in their most basic forms, notice their shape. What do you see?

Pumpkins have a circle body and triangular stem.

Try the three drawing steps and then add some color. See if what Thomas Merton says is true.

Like people, pumpkins have unique characteristics from their imperfections and varied rounded shapes like tall and narrow, short and squat, and shades of color.

Here's my pumpkins. Now draw three different pumpkins of your own!

Example Pumpkins

Pumpkin Patch