Fantasy Art

Drawing skulls is a favourite subject of mine, that and demons, but altogether drawing any imaginative creature or character is the best drawing exercise that nay artists can do, everyone can tap into their imagination for inspirational and creative sketching.

By looking around us too we can see many images of skulls and other ideas for creatures and imagined worlds if only we do look, finding inspiration can be quite hard at times, much similar to writers block sometimes the ideas and creative spark just doesn’t happen.

So in this little post I am going to go through a little drawing exercise to get you on top form for more creative and imaginative art, so as an example we are going to be talking drawing skulls, skulls are the easiest starting point and one that I can reference quite well as I draw them quite often and much like drawing demons I can draw multiple variations of a skulls head in one sitting.

Now all you really need for this practice run of the drawing run through are a pencil and a few sheets of paper.

Take your pencil and start to draw at the top left hand corner of your paper, but the trick is here is to draw very quickly, not create a drawing that is long lasting, but rather progressive in nature, something that you will be able to develop later on. By drawing quick you are sketching fast to blast through and get some ideas down, just like writing notes down quickly, sketching them fast becomes a valued skill in it’s own right.

Now try and draw a few skull designs across the piece of paper, some that you can be selective about what works in the skull design and what does not, now by the end of it you should have a piece of paper full with at least four or five skull heads and at least one of these should be a favourite one, one that you know will work as a stand alone design.

How to draw flaming skulls shows you a basic step by step guide and what I have just briefly talked about with some examples to guide you through, the same principles apply to any drawings you do, the key here is to plan out your skull art or whatever else art you have and make sure it will look right for your best drawings to shine.

See also a previous short post on skull drawing on the fantasy art blog

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