How to Draw a Bat

Explore the world of cute and creepy animals with this step-by-step how to draw a bat tutorial. These winged creatures are a favorite when illustrating Halloween elements. In this drawing guide, we'll take you through sketching the base shape, creating a cute face, and adding details.

Get spooky and draw a Halloween clipart that will complement your bat drawing. Check out this tutorial on how to draw a ghost or create a spider drawing.

Before we begin, you need to gather your drawing materials. Use your favorite drawing medium, such as traditional or digital tools. Use anything you can illustrate with and apply color, such as paint or crayons. Once you have your materials ready, we can get started with the steps.

Step 1 - Roughly Sketch the Bat

Let's begin this drawing guide by combining basic shapes for our rough bat sketch. This step uses a sketching medium like a pencil or light-colored tool.

Create the Main Shape

Begin drawing a small circle for the head of the bat (shown in red). Then, draw a larger oval shape below the head for the body, as we did in our example sketch below.

On the head, draw two triangular shapes to create the ears. And sketch the feet with three bumps at the bottom of the body.

To draw the wings, draw two long, curved lines, starting at the head. Then, draw a series of curved lines to connect the top wing line to the body.

Add the Face

Now it's time to add detail to the bat's face. Draw two small circles for the eyes and a small heart shape for the nose with dots for the nostrils.

Then, draw a curved line under the nose to create a mouth with pointed teeth at the ends.

Add Details

Give your bat character by adding additional details. Start with the wings and draw lines connecting from the top center that extend toward the peaks at the bottom. Create a second line inside the ears and add jagged edges around the head for hair.

Step 2 - Create your Bat Outline

Switch to a darker medium to create your outline. You can use an ink Procreate brush, marker, or permanent medium. This will create precise line art for a clean design to apply color.

Main Outline

Begin tracing around the main shapes of the body and wings. Be sure to follow the contours, paying attention to the curves and angles.

Features Outline

Go ahead and define the features of your bat. We added extra line details to the wings, ears, and body hair.

Step 3 - Apply your Color

With your sketching and outlines done, it's time to apply color to your bat illustration. You can use any combination of colors or a ready-made color palette for your winged animal clipart.

We used shades of gray for the wings and body. With a pale pink, we colored the inner ear and nose.

You can even create extra depth to your illustration by adding highlights and shadows. Check out our four methods to blend color in Procreate to level up your artwork.

Spooky work illustrating your very own bat. Why not create a colony of bats by changing the shape of the wings and colors? Just imagine how cute a couple of these flying animal drawings will look as a part of seamless digital designs to add to your projects.

We hope you had a fantastic time and found this drawing exercise helpful. Learn to illustrate all kinds of animals, plants, and food with our fun beginner drawing tutorials.