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How To Draw A Ghost

This drawing guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a realistic and scary ghost illustration. It emphasizes the use of blurry outlines and minimal details to enhance the ghost's eerie appearance, while also suggesting techniques for depicting fabric folds and shadows. The guide encourages creativity and invites feedback for future lessons.

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33 views8 pages

How To Draw A Ghost

This drawing guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a realistic and scary ghost illustration. It emphasizes the use of blurry outlines and minimal details to enhance the ghost's eerie appearance, while also suggesting techniques for depicting fabric folds and shadows. The guide encourages creativity and invites feedback for future lessons.

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In this drawing guide, we will tell you how to draw a ghost. We mean
drawing a scary ghost with an emphasis on realism. We decided to
specifically complicate this lesson so that the ghost looks cool, scary,
and natural.

Many people imagine ghosts in completely different ways. These could


be transparent figures of people in strange clothes or simply vague
silhouettes with visible facial features. We decided to choose the
second option because it is darker and scarier, in our opinion. Implicit
threats are always scarier, so blurry silhouettes and fuzzy outlines
with facial features are always very impressive.

We chose a rather difficult angle to draw the ghost. If you want to


simplify this, draw the ghost completely frontally.

Step 1

First, draw a rough outline of the cast. This can be any shape of your
choice. We decided to use a pentagon with smooth, rounded corners.
Place this shape in the center of your piece of paper. Use only light
strokes in this step. We will be erasing a lot of this in the future.
Step 2

Add some detail to this blurry figure. Smooth horizontal lines perfectly
simulate a dramatic swing of the arms. The front of the ghost is closer
to us, so we see a very asymmetrical figure.

Step 3

This is one of the most important parts for us. Depict the contours of
the face with an expression of suffering. Don’t draw the nose and ears.
Don’t draw unnecessary details. A minimum amount of detail and
maximum blur will make the drawing very scary.

Step 4

Outline the top of our ghost. Draw two long vertical lines to the right
and left of the face. Ideally, it should look like the hood of an old,
threadbare clothes or the top of a sheet. This should already be scarier
than a witch or a zombie.

Step 5

Remember the conditional “hands” from the second step? Draw the
edges of the torn, hanging fabric over these arms. Don’t place the rag
lines too often or too close together. Add some vertical folds along the
edges of our ghost’s outline.
Step 6

Depict some more blurry lines on the ground. It could be wavy lines or
what looks like fog over the ground. As a result, we create the effect
that a ghost is floating above the ground, and its lower part does not
have a clear boundary.

Step 7

Add some more folds to our ghost. It’s fabric, so you can draw the folds
as you normally would when drawing fabric. It looks like several
vertical and smoothly curved lines. Folds in our case are very
important, since this is the main way to depict the contours of the
ghost.
Step 8

So, we continue with the ghost drawing guide. Remove extra lines
from the entire drawing. Erase the basic outlines from the first steps to
see what our ghost will look like.

Step 9

Fill in the contours of the eyes and mouth with dense, intense shading.
Add small areas of shadow to the area under the ghost’s hood and
under some of the larger folds. By the way, this is a rather interesting
technique. We depicted facial features as shadows, without obvious
contours. These things always create an atmosphere of fear.
Step 10

As a result, we can see something like the appearance of the ghost. In


your case, it may look completely different depending on your
imagination.
We hope you drew a very impressive ghost. Halloween is coming soon
and we are planning to draw some more classic monsters. If you have
ideas for new lessons, write to us in the comments. This helps us a lot
in our work!

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