Easy How to Draw Jack Skellington and Jack Coloring Page
Below you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw Jack Skellington and a Jack Skellington Coloring Page. He’s the main character in the “Nightmare before Christmas” movie.
Drawing of Jack Skellington
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Now young artists have some help in learning how to draw Jack Skellington from the movie “The Nightmare before Christmas”. He is a skeleton who is the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, a fantasy world based solely on the Halloween holiday.
Jack is an extremely tall skeleton who wears a black pin-striped suit, complete with a bat bow-tie and black dress shoes. This tutorial shows how to draw his head and shoulders, and uses just a few simple supplies to keep that dark and shadowy Tim Burton look.
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Jack Skellington Coloring Page
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Materials for a Jack Skellington drawing
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- Paper. Card stock paper that has a light gray or brown shade for an old-fashioned black and white look.
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- SOFT Pencils. Important: Ticonderoga #2 SOFT pencils will always give you the darkest gray. Collect them and then save for all your drawing projects. The #2 Mediums will not work as well, no matter how hard you press.
Step by Step Directions to Draw Jack Skellington
Time needed: 45 minutes
Step by Step Jack Skellington Drawing
- Draw an oval and two eyes, as shown below.
- Add the nose holes, and the mouth with stitch lines.
- Draw a skinny neck and a bat head for the tie.
- Add the bat wings on the side of the head.
- Draw the lapel of the jacket.
- Add the sides of the jacket.
- Draw two skinny sleeves. Add flying bats in the background.
- Trace the drawing with a marker.
Fill in the eyes, add a white colored pencil, and a gray pencil.
- Finish the jacket with stripes by drawing extra dark lines with the pencil.