Skull head drawing

The human skull consists of 22 bones. This is your guide to understanding the structure, features, foramina and contents of the human skull.

When I first decided I wanted to learn how to draw, skulls seemed like an interesting subject. They were everywhere around Halloween, on t-shirts, and even in some of my favorite art pieces. I thought drawing skulls would be really hard because they looked so cool and detailed. But one day, I grabbed my pencils and paper and just started. My first skull drawing didn't look like much. The shapes were all wrong, and it didn't really resemble a skull at all. But I kept trying. With each new…

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The skull has been a very powerful symbol in human cultures, whether to commemorate ancestors or as a warning of our mortality. In the more practical world of artistic anatomy, the skull is the hard bone structure that gives form to the head. Skulls, and the muscles and features built upon them, vary greatly, across ethnicities, the sexes and individuals, but the basic structures are the same for everybody. Realist artists need to study the skull’s parts and how the muscles fit over them…