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How to Describe a Skull: 50 How-to's, Tutorials, Studies, Photo References, Videos, and Inspirational Skull Illustrations

43 Comments | November 20, 2008

Ah, the skull. Universal and visceral, fascinating and beautiful. Symbolic of those most basic themes: life and death. We find it in pop culture, occult ritual, on shoulders worldwide; most importantly, we find it in ourselves. No wonder nosotros run across information technology over and over in the world of art. It is mystical… mayhap nosotros look for answers nigh the life after expiry in the bony visage of the skull.

Any the example, at the end of day, skulls are pretty cool! Which is exactly why I set out to put together of a haphazard list of drawings, photos, tutorials & how-tos, videos, and illustrations dealing with the human skull.

I hope it proves useful to you and inspires you as it has me. So without farther ado, categorized past what seemed to make sense, skulls:

Anatomical Studies of Skulls
How-to'due south and tutorials on cartoon skulls
Stylized Skulls
Photo references of Skulls
Websites devoted to skulls

Bask!

New!

Drawn and Tattoo Skulls on TattooPort

Anatomical Studies of Skulls

Update: Encounter also Skull Anatomy for Artists

Skull Left Lateral Alphabetize from Gray's Anatomy of the Homo Body

Skull Plate by Dr. Bock

Human Skull Engraving by William Miller

Man Skull Side from David Darling's Internet Encyclopedia of Science. Great resource for the anatomy of the man skull.

Skull Drawings past Paul Doeman

Skull Drawing by Ha Immature Lee

Skull Sketches past Nadine Gorham

Idealized Proportion Human Figure, The Human Skull, Plate Vii by Michael M. Hensley. Y'all've got to check this guy's website out, Human Anatomicae: he's got fantastic reference drawings of the homo bodies. Specially useful is the department on hands and feet – only that's another post 😉

Skull – Front end and Side View past krisheding

Skull Drawing past Nicole Breedyk (via Flickr)

Skull Page past Steven Russell Black (via Flickr)

How-to's and tutorials on how to draw skulls

How to Draw a Skull on second-Digital-Art-Guide

How To Draw A Skull And Crossbones on Drago-Art

Find Easy Steps To Have Your Pencil Cartoon Of A Skull on Pencil-Drawing-Idea.com

How to Draw a Skull on ExpertVillage.com

Drawing the Human Skull on draw23.com

Depict a Skull with a Wacom Tablet from Go Media on Vimeo.

Stylized Skulls

Skull Reference by Matthew Amey. The image higher up is one of 151 drawings of the human skull Matthew Amey did in 2003. Those along with skull drawings by 150 artists can exist found on the website: this is definitely for all the skull lovers out there. Here's another one from the book (which you can buy hither):

Skull by Ron Domstead

La Coka Nostra by Brian Morris. This guy has some real dope drawings and illustrations. You can go the above prototype on a T-Shirt over at shopbenchmark.com. 1 of his tees is also featured on Threadless Select.

Pinstripe Skull by Rob Schwager. Above available every bit print Schwager's online store.

Skull by hydro74 and another i by the same artist:

Skull Illustration past hydro74… siiick.

Machine Skull by Eliot Flores – When I first stumbled upon this picture I thought it'd exist from hydro74, they look somewhat like… tin can't decided which one is sicker!

Scaphocephaly by R. E. Wolf (via Flickr)

Trophy Skull by Danny Grunter (via Flickr)

Serpent and Skull by Joe_13 (via Flickr)

Pumpkin Pattern – Skulls by Chris Rushing (via Flickr)

Skull past b.media (via Flickr)

Skull Head72 by ceroakb1 (via Flickr)

Metal Skull past Marcus Tegtmeier (via Flickr)

Skull & Lotus by Usugrow – this guy is incredible, and he loves skulls. You can too check out this chip on an Usugrow art opening on Fecal Face.

Alien Biker Skull by Von R. Glitschka

Grunge Skull Illustration by Chad Lonius. Republic of chad'south got some sick illustrations and gives away free vector illustrations from fourth dimension to fourth dimension, including the one shown above!

Some other Skull past Shane from ShanesArt.com – dude's got some sick skills.

Tribal Skull past Ty Lombardi

Skull Tattoo by Bazaar

Photo references of skulls

Human Skull by David Liittschwager on California Academy of Sciences Skulls website – peachy resource for all kinds of funky skulls.

Human Skull by DeLoy Roberts – Granted this picture is kind of crappy, but his website has tons of animate being skulls as well.

Azibaza has some crazy items for auction – unfortunately this Tibetan carved human skull is sold out. Definitely bank check out some of their other items, including their kapalas (skull caps).

More than crazy skulls can exist found over at tribalartasia.com, including this Naga Headhunting Human Bays Skull.

Cradleboard Skull from bmezine.com. Although retired, you lot tin can still look at the pictures of skulls – this ane in particular from the "Deformation and other Unique Defects" category.

Y'all can find skull replicas of all kinds of hominids over Skulls Unlimited (in the Fossil Hominids section), including this Homo neanderthalensis skull.

More ostheological reproductions are available from Bone Clones, including this skull with brain… absurd 🙂

Homo Skull with Horns from subversiveelement.com. According to this most entertaining site, this skull was plant in 1880'south in Pennsylvania, USA, but was subsequently stolen. Sitting on acme of male skeletons 7 ft. alpine, these would have made for some scary fellows.

For more than bizarre skulls check out this skull of a supposed fishman; plain quite a few of them have been found co-ordinate to dominorus' site.

Websites Devoted to Skulls

For those of you who haven't gotten their fill, here are more websites devoted to skulls exclusively:

Skull-A-Day – the blog of artist Noah Scalin. Not too long agone he decided to make a one skull a twenty-four hour period for a year, and and then he did. Recently completed, the blog lives on with user contributed skulls and spawned a volume that you tin can detect through IndieBound.

I Want Your Skull – great site that also publishes its own little sweetness zine. Great skull art and plenty of inspiration here.

Sweet Skulls.com – Examines the skull in pop culture. Y'all'll find a lot of old b-motion picture posters and other contrasted trash art.

Stuff to purchase

The Finish, nearly

No post on skulls would exist complete without a nod to Skullface himself, Ghost Rider:

Ghost Rider cover by Marc Silvestri

… just the terminal laugh goes to the ultimate bonehead:

Source: http://www.drawninblack.com/2008/11/how-to-draw-a-skull-50-how-tos-tutorials-studies-photo-references-videos-and-inspirational-skull-illustrations/

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