How do you draw a simple skull?
Step-by-step instructions to draw a skull.
- Step 1: Start with the basic shapes and lines.
- Step 2: Draw your eye sockets and nasal cavity.
- Step 3: Define the cheekbones and jawline.
- Step 4: Add more detail to the top of the skull.
- Step 5: Outline the teeth.
- Step 6: Add shading and final touches.
How to draw a realistic skull?
Start with the basic shapes and lines. Draw a wide oval to represent the top portion of the skull.
Draw your eye sockets and nasal cavity. Draw in your eye sockets and the cavern where the nose would be.
Define the cheekbones and jawline. Add more defined lines to the outer shape of the skull.
Add more detail to the top of the skull. Add some more contour lines to the upper part of the skull.
Outline the teeth. Draw in teeth,and your skull will start to look eerily real.
Add shading and final touches. With the teeth in place,it’s time to add shading and more definition to your most important lines.
How to draw a Scary Skull?
First,sketch two round shapes similar to circles. These will be the eye sockets of skull.
Now,draw an oblong shape for the “nose,” or nasal bone. The bottom part of the nose should be slightly larger than the upper portion.
Develop the cheek bones that jut out from below the eye sockets. Curve them in to form the beginnings of some teeth.
Next,draw the teeth. They are basically rectangular shapes with some deviation from rectangles. Make sure not all the teeth have the same height.
Complete the lower teeth; use the instructions of Step 4 for reference. Additionally,frame the eye sockets with lines,or “wrinkles” of the bone.
These are the DETAILS. Go ahead and add various lines to the skull,like cracks in the forehead,or “frontal bone” and stress lines on the jaw.
Optional: add a snake for a frightening or cryptic effect! There will be no instructions for this step; this is merely a suggestion for your drawing.
The final result! Shading is optional,of course. If you choose to shade,you can use my image here as a reference (by the way,I shaded with
How to draw Red Skull?
Draw a circle for his skull head,and then add in the facial guidelines.
Let’s now sketch out the shape of Red Skull’s skeletal head like so,and then be sure to sketch out the eye sockets like so.
Add some detailing to the skull on the sides like you see here,and then sketch out the eyes and make sure they look realistic since this is
For the last drawing step,all you have to do is sketch in the remaining detailing around the eyes like you see here.
Here is what he looks like when you are all done.
How to draw a cartoon skull?
Before drawing some skulls,we need to know a little bit more about this mythic piece of the human body.
Looking at the shape of the skull,you will see that it’s made with circles only.
Start sketching your skull by drawing a circle for the head and one for the jaw.
Now that you know how to draw some basic skulls,let your imagination run wild and try to create some variations.