Confession: I'm a girly-girl, but for some reason I'm obsessed with skulls.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to draw and paint a pretty, sugar skull, just in time for Halloween.
Step 1: Supplies
What you will need:
Step 2: Draw guide marks
Measure out the half-way points of the length and width of your canvas
Draw a line down and a line across.
Step 3: Rough sketch of an egg
Lightly draw an egg shape, making sure that it is centered on the canvas.
I left about an inch above the top of the skull, and 2 inches below.
Step 4: Draw the eyes
The eyes are circles which are centered the the horizontal lines in the egg shape drawn earlier.
Step 5: Draw the nose
The nose is an upside down heart. The top of it should be past the bottoms of the eye sockets.
Step 6: The top of the cheekbones
From the horizontal guide draw slanted lines going in towards the skull.
Step 7: The bottom of the cheekbone
From the horizontal guide, draw a slanted line down and into the face.
Step 8: The top jaw
From the bottom of each of the cheekbone lines, draw horizontal lines. They should line up with the center of the eye sockets.
Step 9: The top jaw continued
Continue with short lines which are slightly slanted inwards.
Step 10: The mouth
Connect the two points with a slightly curved line. You want your skull to smile!
Add 5 marks on the line as guides for the teeth.
Step 11: The teeth
The teeth are arches on either side of the line. The front two teeth are the biggest and get smaller towards the end.
Step 12: The lower jaw
From a little bit past the bottom point of the cheekbones, draw short slanted lines inwards.
Step 13: The lower jaw continued
Draw short lines slanting away from the face.
Step 14: The bottom of the jaw
Draw long slanted lines down and inwards.
Draw a straight line across to join the lines.
Step 15: The temple
Returning to the top of the cheek bones, draw slanted lines away from the face.
Step 16: The dome
Connected the two points of the temple by following your sketch from earlier of the top of the egg/skull.
Skull outline completed!
Step 17: Flower eyes
Draw arches around the circles of the eye sockets.
Now they look like flowers. Delightful.
Step 18: Dots on dots on dots
Add rows of dots between the eyes, on the cheek bones, and upper jaw.