The ghost emoji 👻 is one of the friendliest spooky drawings to learn. It's basically a rounded blob with a wavy bottom, two eyes, and a cheeky tongue. Perfect for Halloween cards or doodling on textbooks.

🎨 What You Need

  • Plain white paper
  • Pencil and rubber
  • Black fineliner or marker
  • Light grey colouring pencil
  • Pink pencil for the tongue

How to Draw the Ghost Emoji

  1. Draw a dome — a half-circle for the top of the head, about the size of a tennis ball.
  2. Two straight sides — drop two vertical lines down from the edges of the dome.
  3. Wavy bottom — connect the two sides with three or four wavy bumps (this is the ghost's ghostly tail).
  4. Add the arms — two small bumps on each side, sticking out like little stubby hands.
  5. Eyes — two large oval eyes about a third of the way down the head.
  6. Tongue out — a small curved tongue sticking out of one side of the mouth area.
  7. Ink the outline — fineliner over the pencil, then erase pencil marks.
  8. Shade lightly — keep the ghost white but add soft grey along one side and under the arms.
💡 Parikshet's Tip: Make the wavy bottom uneven — three different-sized bumps look ghostlier than three identical ones.

🌟 Did You Know?

The ghost emoji was added to Unicode in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0. It was designed to look playful rather than scary so people would use it more often.

Other Easy Emoji Drawings

  • Pumpkin emoji 🎃 — for Halloween sets
  • Smiling face emoji 😊 — classic round yellow
  • Heart eyes 😍 — practise drawing love hearts
  • Poo emoji 💩 — surprisingly hard to get right

🎯 Try This: Emoji Wall

  1. Pick six emojis you use often
  2. Draw each one in pencil, then ink
  3. Colour using only the official emoji colours
  4. Stick them on your bedroom wall as a poster