Final pencil drawing of a witches hat in a sketchbook. Two pencils, an eraser and an ice cream cone are also in the photo.

How to Draw a Witch Hat

So How to Draw a Witch Hat is kind of putting the cart before the horse...or should I say the hat before the cone.

BUT since it’s Halloween I thought this was a fun way to start learning to draw a cone!

After learning How to Draw a Cylinder this is familiar but even easier!

Let's start by looking at How to Draw a Cone first.

A hand sketching a cone with pencil with an ice cream cone near by as a visual aid.

How to Draw a Cone-

The only thing that I had that was cone shaped was an actual ice cream cone! Convenient, huh?

A cone begins by drawing a deep “V” shape.

Remember the smile line we talked about when learning How to Draw a Sphere? Well, we use a smile line to connect the two top tips of the “V”. Then draw a line (like an upside-down smile line) over the top.

See how that makes an oval on top of the cone? The farther you tip the top of the cone away from you, the less deep the smile line is, the longer the oval shape will be.

We will talk about shading the cone in another post about How to Draw a Cone.

A hand sketching an oval for the brim of the witches hat drawing.

How do you draw a witch hat? (step by step)

When we learn How to Draw a Witch Hat, we will start by tipping the cone upside down-with the tip of the cone up.

Draw a tall tee-pee shape, an upside down “V”.

This is going to be the pointed top of the hat.

A hand erasing a line in a pencil drawing of a witches hat.

Drawing the brim of the witch hat

Make a smile line between the two tips of the “V” but this time don’t draw another line like you did on the top of the cone.

Instead, draw a second smile line below the first smile line that has the same smile shape but goes wider than the first line. This is the brim of the hat.

Draw a second upside down smile line that goes on top of the brim of the hat and connects the two ends. This will make a long oval shape to complete the brim of the hat.

Erase the part that goes behind the V-shaped top of the hat.

Tip: After you have practiced a bit you can draw this top smile line and just skip that area that is behind the pointed top of the hat. Then you won’t have to do the erasing. But for learning, it’s easier to draw the whole line and erase.

A hand shading with the side of a pencil on a drawing of a witches hat.

Shading the hat

Shade the hat by imagining that the light source is shining from the top right. That means that the shade is on the left-hand side of the hat.

Lay the pencil more on its side and use the side of the lead on the paper instead of the tip. Gently press the side of the pencil led on the paper.

Shade down the left side of the pointed part of the hat- using contour lines and shading up and down. Blend with your finger.

Also shade on the left side of the hat brim and blend.

A finger blending the shading on a pencil drawing of a witches hat.

Boo! How to Draw a Witch Hat, easy!!

That wasn't hard, was it?

Want to learn more about drawing?

If you want some more drawing ideas and need inspiration, here are links to other drawing tutorials! These are great for any artist, whether you are just beginning or honing your skills!

Enjoy!

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