Evil Skull Drawings

Evil skulls are symbols that are favorites with many groups (or bad guys) like gangsters, heavy rock bands, some weird blood drinking cults (ok, I just made this up!), bikers and my favorite, the pirates! Depending upon the purpose, you should design or select skull art designs.

Guidelines to Select Evil Skull Designs
There are certain technical things you need to keep in mind, when selecting a skull design for any arts and crafts project. Here are some tips.

• If you wish make a logo for some magazine or site, then stick to simple and edgy but stylish skull art. For example, if you are looking for a site which describes deadly snakes, then a skull can represent death and a snake in or around the skull can represent the killer snakes. Make sure you keep the designs as simple as possible, with clear lines so that the graphic represents the meaning of the site properly.
• If you wish to get the drawing printed on a coffee mug, then again keep it simple. You can accompany it with the cross bones sign or a name or label.
• To get the skull drawing or art printed on your t-shirt, make sure you consider the technical details. For example, if you are getting your t-shirt design printed, then how much will it cost you, will it cost less if the design is simple and black and white, or calculate the cost of the printing of a colored detailed graphic on your t-shirt. Select the design according to your group or whatever you want your t-shirt to represent. You can also add a one-liner message if you like.
• If you are looking for an evil skull art drawing for your door sign, to ask others to keep out, then select a nasty mean looking skull art and you can draw the details, and color the drawing with your crayons.
• For graffiti, there are no limitations and you can add as many details as you want to your skull art drawing. Just make sure the wall is big enough, to contain the design.

How to Draw Evil Skull Designs?
Now that you know how to select skull art, let us look at the step for drawing it...

Step 1: Anatomy and Basic Form
If you want to study skull anatomy, you will need to remember all the weird names like maxilla, zygomatic bones, glabella and what not! Instead let's opt for a simpler approach and concentrate on the three main parts of the skull. The top round-oval shaped portion of the head, the bottom part of the skull which is the jaw, and third, the placement of the nasal bone or nose, and the eye sockets or the eyes. Here, I have drawn a basic outline form of the skull, showing the top head and the jaw part.


Step 2: Adding Evil
Whenever drawing anything evil, try to draw sharp lines. Now add details and characteristics to the drawing; in this sketch I have added the eyes, which have sharp uplifted eyebrows thus betraying an emotion of anger. The jaw or the mouth line is like an inverted 'U' shape showing displeasure. You can try out your own eye shapes and mouth shapes if you like.


Step 3: Giving Life!
Adding character to the skull is important. Here, I have drawn a bandanna, an earring and added some cross bones to give the skull a pirate look. You can add different details to give the skull different characteristics, below are some examples.


Theme Skull Art Designs with Pictures
Here is a collage of different character theme skull art designs like death, devil, pirate, girl skull, gangster, rock star etc. You can work out your own skull drawings on similar designs, or draw a basic skull and give it a brand new bad look of your choice.


Stylized Skull Art Designs with Pictures
Here are some skull clip art and some stylized skull art designs. If you wish to make your skull art design stylized and cool looking, then stick to a basic edgy styled drawing and try to add least number of details.


So start sketching your evil skulls and get them printed on different objects, to hoard up on your very own evil art skull treasure trove!