Witches are scary a few times but our today tutorial on how to draw a witch is super fun to follow for kids and novice. Witches are considered as women who are engaged in magic with supernatural power, worship many goddesses and nature.
How to Draw a Witch
Learn how to draw a great looking Witch with easy, step-by-step drawing instructions, and video tutorial.
By following the simple steps, you too can easily draw a perfect Witch.
Complete Witch drawing
Witches are usually described as women who practice magic, cast spells, and influence events using supernatural powers.
Other witches worship nature or various gods and goddesses. Did you know? Male witches are often called warlocks.
Individuals fitting this description have occupied various cultures throughout history. Ancient “mystery religions” of Greece and Rome involved spells, omens, and magical concoctions. From the middle ages until the end of the 1700s, “witch hunts” took place in Europe and North America.
Supposed witches were often weighed or thrown into bodies of water, as they were thought to have no weight.
If the courts decided a person was a witch, they were killed. Today, many tribal cultures employ “witch doctors” as physicians, and certain religions still practice witchcraft.
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The image of a witch wearing a pointed hat is a relatively modern invention, appearing perhaps during the Victorian period. Pointed hats were regarded as evil symbols, resembling the horns of the devil.
The idea of a witch flying on a broomstick may have originated with with early use of hallucinogenic plants by budding pharmacologists.
If you would like to draw a cartoon witch for Halloween, this easy, step-by-step drawing tutorial is here to help.
All you will need is a pencil and a sheet of paper. In each step, you will be provided with explanatory text as well as a detailed illustration.
If you liked this tutorial, see also the following drawing guides: Haunted House, Demon, and Cartoon Castle.
Step by Step Instructions for Drawing a Witch
How to Draw a Great Looking Witch for Kids, Beginners, and Adults – Step 1
1. Begin by drawing an irregular circle, a bit flattened on each side. This will form the witch’s head.
Easy Witch Drawing – Step 2
2. From the head, extend a long, curved line. Enclose an irregular shape. This will form the witch’s gown.
Easy Witch Drawing – Step 3
3. Draw a long, curved line through the witch’s head. This will form the brim of the hat. Enclose a tuft of hair between the brim and the face. Use a series of short, connected, curved lines that meet in points.
Easy Witch Drawing – Step 4
4. Draw the witch’s ears. For each ear, use a curved line. Add detail within the ear using short, curved lines.
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Easy Witch Drawing – Step 5
5. Continue the hat. Connect another curved line to each end of the brim, outlining the top of the brim. Use a long, curved line to enclose the roughly triangular shape of the top of the hat. Notice the curves and bends near the point. Finally, use a series of short lines connected at jagged points to enclose the hair.
Easy Witch Drawing – Step 6
6. Draw the face. Enclose two large eyes using ovals. Draw a vertical curve through each oval, and enclose a small circle; shade between the two. Use a curved line to form the smiling mouth, with tiny squiggles adding depth at each end. Use a small “C” shaped line for the nose. Enclose the eyebrows using two long curved lines, connected at a point on one end and by a short, straight line on the other.
Easy Witch Drawing – Step 7
7. Draw the arms. Use long, curved lines to outline the sleeves, connected by a shorter curved line at the end. Use two “U” shaped lines to form each mitten-like hand. Draw a set of short, parallel lines extending from the hands, and connect these using a small oval. This forms the end of the broomstick.
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Add More Details to Your Witch Picture – Step 8
8. Enclose two curved triangular shapes beneath the gown to indicate the legs and feet. Draw two curved lines across each, to form the top and sole of the shoes. Then, draw curved lines across the gown to indicate folds in the fabric.
Complete the Outline of Your Witch Drawing – Step 9
9. Enclose a bushy figure using curved lines of differing lengths. This indicates the straw of the broom. Draw curved lines across it to give it texture.
Color Your Witch Drawing
10. Color your character.
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How to draw a Witch on a broom
Step 1: Draw a long oval for the face, a rectangular chest, a line for the spine, and a flattened oval for the pelvis. Draw 2 lines for arms and 2 for legs from the pelvis.
Step 2: Draw the torso area which includes a broader chest and narrow waistline. Draw a hand with simple lines from the chest. Draw legs broader on thighs and narrow at the ankle. Also, depict the broom of the witch.
Step 3: In this step work on the details, draw a pointed hat, outline the dress as a skirt and cape or long jacket. At this point, all the details are added.
Step 4: Add details to the flowy hair, draw a long pointed nose, chin, and eyes. Contour the hat with the clear visible line.
Step 5: In this step focus on the upper body, draw frills at the top arms, and shrinks carefully. Do everything with clear lines.
Step 6: Draw a long dress of the witch’s legs out of the dress, add details to the shoes and after it, you can delete all the extra lines.
Step 7: Add fine lines of the broom bristles, it’s easy to draw the long broom of the witch.
Step 8: Drawing is complete, still you can add some volume to make it realistic, for use hatching technique, or just draw simple shading.
How to draw a cartoon kid Witch :
Step 1: To form a witch head draw an irregular circle, flattened from both side.
Step 2: To form the witch gown start drawing with a long curve line an enclosed irregular shape from the head.
Step 3: Draw a long curve line for the rim of the hat, and hair strand coming out of it.
Step 4: Draw two ears on both sides of the head. Finish it with the curved line.
Step 5: Draw the hat above the rim, a long coned shape. On the back of the hat draw jagged flowy hair.
Step 6: Draw 2 cute sparkling eyes using an oval shape. Above the eyes draw triangular eyebrows, a curved smiley mouth, and a cute nose.
Step 7: Draw the arms using the long curved line for the outline of the sleeves. From the hand draw the end portion of the broom with the rectangular shape.
Step 8: Below the gown draw 2 legs add 2 curved lines for the sole of the shoes. Draw shrinks on the dress with the help of 2 curve line.
Step 9: At the back of the witch draw brooms bush with the help of textured curvy lines.
Step 10: Trace the drawing with the marker and color it with your choice of colors.
How to draw Step by step cartoon Witch
Learn step by step witch on broom drawing with the below-given illustration.
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Know the risks.
Witchcraft isn’t just fun and games; perks like hexes and love spells can come with a price. The infamous Salem witch trials may seem far in the past, but the persecution of witches (or those suspected of witchcraft) continues today. Despite the mainstream’s growing fascination, the past few years have also seen, for example, a whopping 900 percent rise in (at times lethal) child-abuse cases linked to suspicion of witchcraft and demonic possession in the U.K. There are, of course, methods of protection, like carrying an evil eye. The easiest one, however, is to simply not go around shouting about your newfound identity.
There’s no shortage of types of witchcraft, meaning there’s also no shortage of choices for an aspiring witch. Rather than get overwhelmed, get your bearings by having at least a basic understanding of the terms below.
Paganism: An umbrella term for religions other than the Abrahamic faiths of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam that typically places emphasis on the earth and nature. Its modern-day practitioners are known as neo-pagans.
Wicca: A religion that’s perhaps the popularized form neo-paganism, thanks in large part to the so-called Father of Wicca, Gerald Gardner, who cultivated his specific ideology, now known as Gardnerian Wicca, in the mid-1900s. Whereas witches are typically thought of as women, many Wiccans are men and worship both a god and a goddess. What was initially thought of as an anti-monotheistic gesture, though, has more recently been criticized for espousing heterosexuality and the idea of a gender binary, which was, in part, what led to the emergence of Dianic Wicca, in the 1970s, for those who chose to only worship the goddess and to do so only in the presence of women—a policy that’s since proven to be problematic, as many of its covens prohibit transgender women.
Ceremonial: The by-the-book practice of placing the highest value in—not to mention expertly executing—ceremonies and rituals.
Brujería: An umbrella term for African, Caribbean, and indigenous Latin American witchcraft, dating back centuries, if not thousands of years. Increasingly, though, the word bruja, Spanish for witch, has been reclaimed by Latinx women interested in their heritage—and made contemporary by, say, using the gender-neutral term brujx.
Solitary: This group is made up of those who choose not to find a coven, but instead operate on their own with the type (or mix) of witchcraft that they choose.
Eclecticism: A more social route for those who choose not to stick to a particular category but instead mix traditions as they please.Learn the terminology.
You can get a more comprehensive guide to definitions via Shelley Rabinovitch and James Lewis’s The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism, a good portion of which is available on Google Books. Before that deep dive, though, any beginner should have at least cursory knowledge of the terms listed below.
Initiation: The rites that put a budding witch on the path to making things official, by joining a coven after studying its practice, traditionally for a year and a day. The initiations that follow eventually allow the initiate the opportunity to become a high priest or high priestess; those with enough knowledge, experience, and dedication can become the leader of a Wiccan coven.
Coven: A gathering or community of initiated witches, usually led by a high priest and/or high priestess. If a coven is Wiccan, their meetings often involve sabbats, which are celebrations of the annual cycle of seasonal festivals known as the Wheel of the Year. (Non-sabbat meetings, such as the observation of a full moon, are known as esbats.)
Salem in a scene from season three of *Sabrina the Teenage Witch*, with the titular character played by Melissa Joan Hart—and dealing with the repercussions of the insults Salem let loose during an online game of chess.
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Familiar: An animal-shaped spirit that serves as a witch’s spy, assistant, companion, and protector—the classic example of which is Sabrina’s black cat, Salem.
Altar: A surface that a Wiccan uses solely for activities such as casting spells, chanting, and worshipping the god and goddess. Typically, the altar is covered in a symbol-adorned cloth, which protects it from ash, liquids, and candle wax, as well as religious and ritual items like incense, wands, chalices of water, and cauldrons.
Pentacle: A magical tool such as an amulet or talisman that often appears on an altar, and is also often confused with a pentagram—a symbol popular in Wicca and, confusingly enough, the Church of Satan, which has pretty successfully taken ownership of its inverted version. (Inverted pentacles aren’t necessarily satanic, though Wiccans have recently largely strayed from using them to avoid that association.)
A Wiccan pentacle, made up of a pentagram (a symbol used for protection and directing magic), versus the original goat pentagram, dating back to 1897, which later served as inspiration for the Sigil of Baphomet, aka the Church of Satan’s official insignia.
Black Magic: A form of magic used with dark, malevolent, and harmful intentions, commonly associated with satanism. Spells have been used for a variety of purposes ever since the days of the Magi of Zoroastrianism and Ancient Egypt, but those that are specifically used for negative and/or harmful purposes are known as hexes and curses.
Séance: A ceremony used to contact spirits, including the dead, usually with the help of a medium.
Grimoire: The umbrella term for a magic text, ranging from diaries to textbooks.
Book of Shadows: A Wiccan’s personal grimoire, used to store information they need, such as thoughts, recipes, and instructions for spells, rituals, and hexes.
Study up.
Even if you think you’re sure you want to proceed, it’s best to find out what exactly you’re signing up for. Before paging through your spell books, it’s wise to do your research—particularly since the modern-day idea of witchcraft has been pieced together by a mix of legends and existing translated historical documents, leading each of the pros to have a slightly different take on the subject. Going back to the first step of knowing the risks, The Penguin Book of Witches, written by Katherine Howe, a descendant of some of Salem’s accused witches, is a helpful guide to witch-related history (and tragedy), dating back to the 1600s. (For a more firsthand—and definitely lighter—read, Stewart Farrar’s What Witches Do recounts his experience of being a witch and part of a coven led by Alex and Maxine Sanders, who cofounded Alexandrian Wicca in the 1960s.)
Still interested? If so, start with the basics (and praise your deity of choice you made this decision after the invention of Google). For those interested in Wicca, Lisa Chamberlain has become a go-to source; her book Wicca for Beginners is basically Wicca 101, and there are plenty more books where that came from, both by Chamberlain and also on her recommended reading list. If you’re interested in other forms of witchcraft and/or ready for a deeper dive, pick up Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today, by the late journalist and Wiccan priestess Margot Adler. The first sociology of contemporary paganism in the U.S., it still holds up since its first publication, in 1979, thanks in parts to its three more recently revised editions.
Stock up.
Depending on what type of witchcraft you decide to pursue, you’ll likely need at least a few supplies from an occult store, like candles, oils, roots, and herbs for rituals; spell books; tarot cards; potion ingredients; cauldrons; and, for those drawn to psychism, a crystal ball. (Some supplies won’t need to be purchased—the so-called Feces Spell, for example, is definitely chief in that category.)
Some places to start are learning how to do a candle dressing, trying out some basic rituals, and familiarizing yourself with the different uses of crystals and candles—all of which you can keep a record of in your Book of Shadows.
