Easy How to Draw a Skull Tutorial and Skull Coloring Page

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Below you'll discover an like shooting fish in a barrel step-past-stride how to draw a Skull Tutorial and Skull Coloring Page. Scroll down to learn more and download yours for gratuitous.

How to Draw a Skull

A drawing of a skull, made with the help of an easy step by step tutorial.

When your students are ready to learn how to draw a skull that is more than just an oval shape with a few circles for olfactory organ and middle holes, it might exist time to share this tutorial with them. A few more than details can make all the deviation in the globe.

A skull, or cranium, is a gear up of basic that make up the shapes of our heads. It supports the structures of the face and forms a protective crenel for the encephalon.

A real skull actually has 22 basic, but this cartoon lesson will simplify quite a few of them. The important parts — the nose hole, cheeks and teeth are there, so the drawing looks pretty realistic, only doesn't go too hard for the younger artists.

Salve this skull drawing project for:

  • Halloween (that's a no-brainer)
  • Day of the Expressionless (not to be confused with Halloween, more of a celebration of past lives)
  • Anatomy (it'due south simple, but nevertheless pretty accurate)
  • Symmetry do (yous can never have besides much!)

Also, this basically white drawing is a groovy identify for students to exercise shading. Students that seem to easily master the shapes of this skull, might like to meet what they can practice with making shadows. A few well placed greyness shapes will turn this flat drawing into something that looks similar information technology has some shape and depth.

Getting Started with Cartoon Guides

The best fashion to get students off to a expert commencement to any drawing lesson is to prove them how to use guides as a reference betoken.

Y'all may have noticed that all of the tutorials on this website take a dashed vertical line and horizontal line running through the centre of each step. If students make theirain centered lines on theirown paper, before drawing, they will accept an easy reference to follow.

For instance, as seen in Step 1 below, this sketch starts with an upside down middle shape right in the eye of the paper. Information technology's easy to practice when students can run across where those ii guides cross.

When students get their drawing off to a proficient showtime, in that location's a better chance of them feeling successful past the time they are washed. Drawing skills are all about getting the size and placement of lines on paper. Having some visual reference point to become started, will e'er help anyone learn how to exist a little more authentic.

And then does that hateful students need to go out a ruler to draw a big line downwards the center of their paper before they beginning? No, that will near likely be hard to erase and distract from any finished art. Instead, they simply fold the sheet of paper in half both ways, make a crease, and unfold. The beauty is that by the time the drawing is washed and colored in, the creases volition disappear.

And now, on to the skull drawing project.

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A step by step tutorial for how to draw an easy skull, which is available as a free download.

Skull Coloring Folio

Materials for Skull Cartoon

  • Eraser. Big ones you tin concord in your mitt do a much better job than but the pencil tips.
  • Blackness Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent marker pens make prissy black outlines, have a good tip for coloring, and never drain when they get wet. Use them with good ventilation and add extra paper underneath to protect your tables.
  • Prang Crayons. These are a flake softer than other crayons so they sometimes await similar oil pastels. They likewise have a some nice brownish shades that Crayola does not have unless y'all buy their larger boxes.
  • Crayola Crayons. The reliable make that always works well. The 24 pack has some of my favorite golden orange and xanthous colors that seem a flake richer and warmer than the ones Prang has.

Directions for How to Draw a Skull Pace by Step

Time needed:45 minutes.

Skull Step by Step Instructions

  1. Depict an upside down heart for a olfactory organ.

  2. Add 2 ovals for the eye sockets.

  3. Beginning the top of the skull that curves in at an angle.

  4. Finish the bottom of the lower jaw.

  5. Add the curve of the matching cheekbone lines.

  6. Depict the middle line of the teeth.

  7. Add even number of lines for both the upper teeth and the lower teeth.

  8. Connect with curved lines.

  9. Trace with a marking and color.

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