Skull Drawing – 75 Picture Ideas
How to Draw a Skull
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Front-View Skull
- 1Draw a circle.
- 2Draw a barrel shape below the circle.
- 3Add the cheek bones on each side of the circle. Draw a crossed line at the center.
- 4Draw two small stretched circles for the eye sockets. Add two thin triangular shapes where the nose is supposedly located.
- 5Draw the cheekbone and the maxilla.
- 6Draw the mandible. Add short vertical lines for the teeth.
- 7Trace the rest of the outline. Add a vertical line on the sides of the forehead to make the anterior structures appear protruded.
- 8Erase unnecessary lines.
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Side-View Skull
- 1Draw an oblong.
- 2Draw a U-shape on the right side of your oblong.
- 3Draw the sockets for the eyes and nose.
- 4Draw the maxilla and mandible using small straight strokes.
- 5Draw the cheek bone.
- 6Darken the outline of the skull.
- 7Draw small vertical lines for the teeth. Add details to the skull as you wish to make it more realistic.
- 8Erase unnecessary lines.
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Skull
- 1Look at a picture of a skull, get a feeling for how it looks.
- 2Take a pencil and lightly draw a circle.
- 3If you wish to draw the skull facing you, make a horizontal line and a vertical line that go through the circle, then draw two vertical lines on the left and right side of the skull. (See illustration for further reference)
- 4Make an angled “U” shape at the bottom, closing in the chin.
- 5Two large circles near the middle of the circle will represent eye sockets, as well as a triangle for the nose.
- 6Draw lines for the mouth, and then teeth. These can be rearranged depending on how your person will look.
- 7Erase excess lines, and darken your drawing.
- 8Use a shading pencil to shade in the eye sockets and nose.
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Practice! Try using shading once you get good at this.