How to draw Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley (CoD)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare built its cast around soldiers with weight behind them, and Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley sits at the top of that list among various game characters covered on the site. This tutorial walks through how to draw Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley in a half-body composition, rifle in hand, skull mask front and center.

What Makes This Composition Work

The guide runs 21 steps and delivers clean line art with no color fill, so the focus is entirely on structure and line confidence. The cropped waist-up framing keeps things manageable while still capturing the full tactical silhouette, and the assault rifle held across the body introduces some diagonal line work to navigate.

Ghost’s Visual Breakdown

• Skull face mask with dark hollow eye sockets
• Hood pulled tight over the head
• Military vest with tactical gear layers
• Assault rifle held across the body
• UK flag patch on the right shoulder

If you enjoy drawing armored or weapon-carrying game characters, the tutorial for Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 covers similar full-gear territory, and Max Payne is another good option if you want to practice a grittier, weapon-holding pose. Both pair well with this Ghost walkthrough as a set.

Reading the Step Colors

Each step uses a three-color system to make progress easy to follow:

• Red Color: lines added in the current step.
• Black Color: lines completed earlier.
• Gray Color: base sketch for structure.

How to Draw Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley: Step-by-Step Tutorial

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Finished Your Ghost? Show It Off

Once the line art is done, drop your finished drawing in the comments below. Seeing how different artists handle the skull mask details and the rifle angle is always worth a look. New tutorials get posted to Facebook and Telegram as soon as they go live, a new YouTube video based on existing guides goes up every single day, and Pinterest stays updated regularly if you prefer saving references there. If you want to keep the site going and get access to unique hand-drawn coloring pages in the process, consider supporting the project on Patreon. You might also want to try the Assassin’s Creed character next, or switch gears entirely with Huggy Wuggy for something completely different.