Drawing Skulls: How To Draw A Skull
71Drawing The Skull
Skulls are great to draw, as I have often drawn many skulls and they are fun to draw aswell as useful in many fantasy settings. They can be used as a focus in tattoos and many other design elements in creature and character drawings and so drawing skulls is something that I have experience with and it is a favourite thing of mine to draw.
The Skull
The human skull is made up of bones that form the shape of the skull and the most prominent bones are the cheek bones, which you can increase the largeness of them to exxaggerate the features somewhat if you want to create a creature skull, but today we shall concentrate on the Human Skull.
Here is a drawing of a skull I did awhile ago, and it is one that looks almost realistic or as realistic as it can get with my comic book style.
Also see how to draw a pirate skull, which is fun to learn to draw if you like pirates. A pirate skull has to include a few design elements like a pirates bandana and a pirate dagger and even that classic eye patch.
First Skull Draft: A Simple Shape
Drawing An Effective Skull
When drawing an effective skull there aresome points that I think help to make your skull drawing good.
First, a realistic approach can often times produce a great looking skull, so a photo or reference could be useful, but not always the case of a realistic looking skull is always needed, as an artist you can practice drawing a skull from a photo and then interpret your skulls as your own and fit them into your own style.
Here I have simply drawn a shape that will be our skull, it is a side profile of a skull head and will be the skulls design that I have chosen. You can draw your skulls how ever you want.
Adding A Few Details On Your Skull Drawing
Working On Your Skull Drawing
When you are trying to develop your skull drawing it is a good idea to still be open to new ways of drawing and sketching even at this stage, things and ideas could change within your own mind, depending on what lines you decide to draw.
Here I have drawn the eyes and the mouth aswell as working out the cheekbones, I will define these more later..
Skull Looking More Like A Skull
Adding The Skull Details
By adding the recognizable features of a skull now, you are making your drawing resemble a skull which is obviously the right way to go.
The cheekbones are defined as are the teeth and the skull nose, drawing skulls is easy when you see it done!
Add A Little Bit Of Shade To Your Skull Drawing
Drawing Extra Detail On Your Skull Head Drawing
Here I add extra details like bones lines and a bit of shadow to the mouth area and under the eyes, this all helps to put your skull design down as a near permanent more skull like drawing.
All the lines that have been sketched in all contribute to the overall drawing to make it look like a skull.
Ink Your Skull
My Usual Inking Final Drawing Tip
I always seem to ink my drawings, maybe to make them more finished.
Anyway this step is optional, you can ink them with any black fine liner or black ink and it just gives it a real permanence to your skull drawing or any drawing for that matter.
Try drawing skulls today, anyway you can....
Also check out - Drawing Skull And Crossbones for a pirate inspired skull image to draw.
See what I came up with below from the little skull exercise we went through today!
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amazing
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im only 17 but most people say im a good drawer but i could never master a good skull but it was easy after i saw your sight and learned how
this rocks everything i said was a lie
got to get my skull drawing down!
itd not that hard once you've got the out line and the eyes XD
thnx
Daveboy, art is something everyone has a different view on. Art is very broad and open in what you can concider "art". Not everyone attends school and is as persistant. Art is art. No matter how good or bad.
Lol!
right where do i start...I have studied, trained, practiced, and worked hard till my fingers bled, my eyes lost focus and my fingers cramped. i have paid dues in an industry that does not take these things lightly. i have accomplished in my short time here on this planet respect from my peers, a desire to always do better, and a work ethic second to none.
i hold art dear to my heart, it is my obsession, my love my craft.
i have sacrificed everything to be free to create.
I can tell you this:
Art is a craft, we may be blessed with some sort of creativity, but art is a learned skill, with rules, etc.
it takes years of hard work and practice to become even competant on srtistic levels.
i am a teacher and a tattooer.
I will be in England shortly, and would love the opportunity to sort you out in person, you fucking ignoramus.
You are a retard.
Stop what you are doing.
your "drawings" are painful to look at.
They are not art.
There is nothing artistic about them.
This is not an opinion.
This is fact.
You have no sense of perpestcive, contrast, composition or design. Your linework is shoddy at best, and your sense of shading no better than that of a bassett hound I grew up with when I was a child.
Seriously, are you even using reference material, you fucking moron!!!
Please, for the sake of us actually doing something with our lives, will you please crawl under a rock and fucking die.
I think you may be down syndrome, in which case I apologise for the mean attitude, but if you're not, WTF?
No thanks! I am creating some how to's of my own, so....cheers for your bad advice!
I would have to agree with Mommy... these are pretty bad.. I am sorry, but maybe you should read more How To's before you try and make one... although, i am curious as to how the "realistic" skulls will look!
wow good job !!!!!!
i really amzed my matres by draing that myself
this is sick WTF
nice but hard
Cheers now CT!
Awesome work! Great step by step! Great hub!
Nice!
cheers!
wow! amazing
nice drawing
NICE DRAWING!!1
cool
Cheers Mega1!
I like skulls as tattoos, they are just cool and can have infinite variations!!!
You know those Mexican Day of the Dead skull art things - from sugar molds to elaborate paper cut-outs? They have skeletons riding horses, dueling, dancing, etc. Make great tattoos too! Skulls are also a great foundation for portraiture to get a person's facial proportions just right. You're a good artist!
Ok...cheers I think!!
Yay!!!!! Ive found the secret to drawing jailhouse skull's...wooohooo a must have for anyone looking to draw an amazing skull...lol...this reference is terrible.
best lesson ever!
cool drawings
Cheers C.S Alexis!
I may at some point do another skull drawing tutorial that clears up the skull image so that it faces forward and maybe drawing a more realistic skull.
Nice and I will bookmark this for later reference when I need a start on drawing my own skulls. I had a bit of a problem with it last fall when I just could not seem to get the image I wanted. Skulls are not my usual. I needed this lesson then so now I have it on hold. Thanks again!
RE: WTF???????????
Yeah!!!!!
WTF???????????
Cheers Guys! I love drawing skulls in tattoos and other funky ways, so cheers!!
Wow, I'm impressed, I too love skulls, they provide the structure which houses our very expression as a person and human being. Criminals and evil doers excepted. You did it so well. Even made it look easy, except for the last party trick.
What comes to my mind is the skull on a pirate flag. No detail at all, just the outline and an indication of where the eye sockets should be, that's all. Easiest to draw too!
skuller 2 months ago
LoL My is like a little bit weard !
I like to draw skulls and this one is one
of the bestest skull i tried to draw