Hey Pandas, Post Some Halloween Art You Made (Closed)

Once upon a spooky night on the internet, Bored Panda asked its community a simple question:
“Hey Pandas, post some Halloween art you made.” And the Pandas delivered in the form of
creepy-cute drawings, DIY decorations, digital illustrations, and crafts that could make even
the grumpiest ghost crack a smile.

The original thread “Hey Pandas, Post Some Halloween Art You Made (Closed)” has wrapped up, but
the spirit of it lives on. This article is your guided tour through the kind of Halloween art
Pandas shared, how people all over the world are turning October into a month-long art
challenge, and how you can jump in with your own spooky creations next season even if you
swear you can only draw stick figures.

What Is “Hey Pandas, Post Some Halloween Art You Made (Closed)”?

If you’re new to Bored Panda, here’s the quick version: it’s a digital playground for creative
people who love art, photography, design, crafts, and weird, wonderful ideas. Community prompts
like “Hey Pandas, Post Some Halloween Art You Made” invite people to share their own creations,
often around a theme like Halloween, cozy fall vibes, weird drawings, or pet portraits.

The Halloween art thread was essentially an open call: “Show us what you made.” People posted:

• Hand-drawn illustrations of ghosts, skeletons, witches, and monsters
• Digital paintings with glowing pumpkins and haunted houses
• DIY Halloween decorations, props, and crafts
• Mixed-media creations like altered books, 3D pieces, or sculpture-like decor

Over time, the submission period closed hence the “(Closed)” tag but the concept is still
very much worth exploring. It’s part art show, part community gallery, and part creative
challenge, and it showcases just how varied Halloween art can be when you give people a theme
and total freedom.

Why We Love Halloween Art Threads So Much

Halloween sits at the perfect intersection of fun, nostalgia, and creative chaos. Costumes and
decorations are already little art projects, so it makes sense that people have taken the
spooky season into online galleries, social feeds, and contests.

Look around the web and you’ll find:

• Community Halloween art shows and open calls where local artists can submit
  spooky-themed work for gallery displays or pop-up exhibits.
• Online showcases and contests where residents upload their Halloween costume
  or yard decor photos and the community votes on their favorites.
• Virtual art fairs that let independent creators sell Halloween prints, zines,
  ceramics, and handmade decor directly to fans.

The Bored Panda Halloween art thread is part of this bigger ecosystem: it’s about showing off
your creations, getting feedback, and quietly thinking, “Wow, other people are just as obsessed
with bats and ghostly pumpkins as I am.” Halloween art threads become little safe havens for
:

• Shy artists who don’t feel ready for a formal gallery
• Kids and teens who want their art to be seen outside of school
• Adults rediscovering drawing, painting, or crafting after years away
• Professional illustrators or designers testing new spooky ideas

And because it’s Halloween, there’s no pressure for everything to be realistic or polished.
Wobbly ghost? That’s “charming.” Slightly uneven pumpkin? “Stylishly haunted.” This is one of
the rare art spaces where imperfect truly works in your favor.

Types of Halloween Art People Shared (And You Can Try Too)

Creepy-Cute Drawings and Illustrations

One of the most beloved styles in Halloween art is the “creepy-cute” look: think wide-eyed
skeleton animals, slightly shy ghosts, and cartoon-style monsters that look like they’d
apologize if they scared you too much.

In community galleries and threads like “Hey Pandas, Post Some Halloween Art You Made,” you’ll
often see:

• Simplified skeleton bunnies, cats, or foxes with big heads and tiny bodies
• Ghosts holding balloons, coffee cups, or candy bags
• Cartoon witches with oversized hats and expressive faces
• Playful skull characters with heart-shaped eye sockets

The appeal is that these drawings are approachable. You don’t need perfect anatomical skills to
draw a floating sheet with eyes or a chubby bat. The key ingredients are:

• Round shapes for a softer, cuter feel
• Big eyes for instant personality
• Limited palettes (black, white, orange, purple, green)
• A small, fun twist like a ghost in bunny slippers or a vampire drinking hot cocoa

DIY Halloween Crafts and Decorations

Not all Halloween “art” lives on paper. In many online communities, people share:

• Hand-painted pumpkins (not just carved ones!)
• Ghost art made with simple supplies like black paper and white paint
• Framed Halloween prints created from public-domain artworks
• Paper-cut bats, garlands, and silhouettes for windows and walls
• Kid-friendly crafts like ghost lollipops, paper bag monsters, and cotton ball spiders

A big theme across popular Halloween craft guides is accessibility: you don’t need to be a
professional artist, and you definitely don’t need a full art studio. Everyday items like
printer paper, washable markers, basic acrylic paint, or even Q-tips can turn into spooky
masterpieces once you add a black cat or pumpkin face.

Some creators even show how to make Halloween wall art on a tight budget: printing vintage
public-domain pieces from museum collections, adding a textured finish with Mod Podge, and
framing them in thrifted frames. The result looks like curated gallery art but secretly,
it’s a clever DIY project.

Digital Halloween Art and Illustration

Many modern Pandas are drawing on tablets instead of sketchbooks. Digital art tutorials online
often walk you through:

• Sketching with a dark pencil brush to map out characters and backgrounds
• Inking clean line art on a separate layer
• Adding grayscale shading to define form and lighting
• Clipping color layers to the shading for a rich, moody palette
• Adding glows around pumpkins, moons, or candles for that “lit from within” effect

Other guides focus on watercolor-style Halloween scenes pumpkin cupcakes, skull cupcakes,
candy bags, foggy graveyards, or haunted forests built in a few structured steps:
light sketch, flat colors, shadows, highlights, and final atmospheric effects.

Whether you’re working in Clip Studio Paint, Procreate, Photoshop, or Illustrator, the
principles are similar: start simple, build your drawing in layers, and use color and light to
convey mood. Halloween art is especially forgiving if something looks a little off, you can
always say, “It’s cursed,” and call it intentional.

How to Make Your Own Halloween Art (Without Losing Your Mind)

Maybe you found the “Hey Pandas” thread too late to post in it. Good news: Halloween comes back
every year, and there’s no rule that says you can only make spooky art in October. Here’s a
simple roadmap to creating your own Halloween art for the next spooky season.

Step 1: Pick Your Vibe

Before you grab supplies, choose your Halloween “mood”:

• Cute and cozy: pastel ghosts, friendly pumpkins, black cats with scarves
• Classic spooky: haunted houses, graveyards, ravens, foggy forests
• Retro horror: vintage-style posters, bold typography, classic monsters
• Funny and chaotic: pun-based art (“Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun”) and silly monsters

Having a vibe keeps your ideas focused and helps you make a series instead of random one-offs.

Step 2: Choose Your Medium

Ask yourself how you like to create:

• Drawing and painting: perfect if you enjoy sketchbooks, canvases, or digital
  illustration.
• Crafting and decor: ideal if you love glue, scissors, and transforming your
  home into a haunted house.
• Mixed media: combine printed images, collage, hand lettering, and paint for
  dramatic Halloween wall pieces.

For beginners, black and white art is a great entry point. A sheet of black paper and white
paint or gel pen can become ghost scenes, spider webs, or skeletal florals. Limited supplies,
huge payoff.

Step 3: Start with Simple Shapes

Even detailed Halloween drawings usually start from basic forms:

• Circles and ovals for pumpkins, skulls, and moon shapes
• Rectangles for haunted houses or grave stones
• Triangles for hats, teeth, and rooftops
• Flowy lines for ghost tails, fog, and capes

Sketch lightly (or use a separate layer if you’re digital), refine the shapes, and only then
add details like cracks in the skull, stitches on a monster, or patterns in a witch’s dress.
This step-by-step approach is what many drawing and spooky-art tutorials use, because it keeps
the process from feeling overwhelming.

Step 4: Play with Light and Color

Halloween art lives and dies by its lighting. Some quick tricks:

• Make the main light source obvious a glowing pumpkin, a full moon, a lantern, or a window.
• Use warm colors (orange, yellow, red) near the light source and cooler colors (blue, purple)
  in the shadows.
• Add small glows around candles, pumpkins, or eyes to make the scene feel more magical.
• Consider an overall color filter a purple or blue wash to tie the whole piece together.

You can do this with watercolor washes, colored pencil shading, digital overlays, or acrylic
glazes. Even a very simple drawing becomes dramatic when you add strong contrast and glow.

Step 5: If You’re Making Decor, Think About Display

When your Halloween art is meant to hang on a wall or sit on a shelf, plan ahead:

• Choose sizes that fit your frames or display areas.
• Use sturdier paper or mount thinner prints on backing board.
• For outdoor decor, use weather-resistant materials and sealants.
• Group multiple pieces into a “spooky gallery wall” for more impact.

Many creators recommend thrifting frames and reusing them for seasonal art swap in Halloween
prints in October, winter art in December, and so on, while keeping the same frames year-round.

Sharing Your Halloween Art Like a True Panda

The magic of the “Hey Pandas” format is that it turns art into a conversation instead of a
solitary activity. Here’s how to get that same feeling even when the original thread is closed:

• Post on social media with clear photos, simple backgrounds, and good
  lighting natural daylight is your best friend.
• Tell a mini-story in your caption: what inspired the piece, what went wrong,
  what you learned, or the funny backstory behind your character.
• Tag relevant communities or hashtags like #halloweenart, #spookyseason,
  #halloweenillustration, or fan-specific tags.
• Participate in art challenges during October (like daily prompt lists) to
  keep your creativity flowing.
• Be generous with feedback: comment on other artists’ posts, especially
  smaller accounts. Community runs on encouragement.

Even if you can’t post directly to a Bored Panda “Hey Pandas” thread anymore, you can recreate
that community vibe by treating your feed like your own mini-gallery and joining in themed
threads or events elsewhere.

of Experience: What Threads Like This Teach Us

At first glance, “Hey Pandas, Post Some Halloween Art You Made (Closed)” looks like a simple
prompt. But if you read through what people shared or imagine the kinds of posts that filled
it you start to see something deeper: a snapshot of how ordinary people connect through art.

Picture a teenager who spent all September sketching ghosts in the margins of their notebooks.
Maybe they’d never shown their art to anyone outside their family. On a quiet evening, they see
the Bored Panda prompt, snap a picture of their favorite drawing, and post it. The next day,
there are likes, sweet comments, maybe even someone saying, “Your style reminds me of a
graphic novel, you should keep going.” That tiny moment can be the difference between “I kind
of draw sometimes” and “I’m an artist.”

Or imagine a parent who’s been crafting with their kids all month. They’ve turned old cardboard
boxes into haunted houses, made a colony of tissue-paper ghosts, and painted pumpkins with goofy
faces instead of carving them. Sharing a collage of those projects isn’t about bragging it’s
about preserving a memory: “Here’s that year the kids were obsessed with glow-in-the-dark
skeletons and we had glitter in the carpet until February.”

Then there are the seasoned artists and designers. For them, a Halloween art thread is a low-
pressure lab. Maybe they experiment with a new style ultra-minimalist skeletons, vintage
horror poster layouts, or textured digital brushes that mimic ink and watercolor. They can toss
an experimental piece into the mix alongside fan art, doodles, and kid projects, and it doesn’t
feel out of place. That mix is the point.

What stands out in experiences around events like this is the way Halloween lowers the barrier
to entry. You don’t have to draw something profound. You can draw a cat in a witch hat. You can
paint a pumpkin with eyelashes. You can print a public-domain bat engraving, add a splash of
neon paint, and call it your “pop-art vampire bat.” The theme gives you permission to be silly,
melodramatic, or over-the-top all things that perfectionist brains usually try to avoid.

People who’ve participated in Halloween art calls, online galleries, or local spooky art shows
often say the same things when they look back:

• They discovered new friends or favorite artists through the thread.
• They got ideas they never would’ve thought of on their own.
• They found the courage to submit to more serious shows or commissions later.
• They started a tradition “every October, I make at least one big Halloween piece.”

Even the “closed” part of the title has a kind of poetic weight. The submissions are over, but
the inspiration isn’t. That thread becomes a time capsule: this is what Halloween art looked
like to this group of people at this moment. Styles will evolve, platforms will change, but the
urge to draw a ghost, paint a pumpkin, or knit a tiny witch hat for your cat? That’s not going
anywhere.

So if you missed the original “Hey Pandas, Post Some Halloween Art You Made (Closed)” thread,
you didn’t really miss your chance. You can still create a series, post it on your favorite
platform, and invite your own “Pandas” friends, followers, family to join in. Your comment
section could become the next unofficial Halloween gallery.

Conclusion: The Art (and Heart) of Spooky Season

The Bored Panda prompt might be closed, but the creative doors it opened are still wide open.
Halloween art is more than bats and pumpkins; it’s community, experimentation, nostalgia, and
play. Whether you’re sketching skeleton bunnies, painting DIY ghost canvases, or building a
haunted gallery wall out of thrifted frames and printed vintage art, you’re participating in a
global tradition of making the dark a little more delightful.

And when next October rolls around, you’ll be ready. You’ll have ideas, maybe even a theme for
your own mini-series or online thread. You can look back at what you created this year and see
how far you’ve come spooky, silly, or somewhere in between.

After all, in the grand gallery of Halloween, there’s always room for one more ghost, one more
pumpkin, and one more Panda.