Free Exclusive resource from Jimiyo: Skull Reference Photos

Sep 17

Freebies

You could hop on ebay and bid on some anatomical skull models (which run between $20 and $80).

Or, you could just download these complete reference photos prepared by jimiyo exclusively for the Go MediaZine. They’re awesome! Inside there are 15 high res skulls at different angles and cut out from the background. So get your Wacom tablet set up and spend an evening drawing over these reference photos. It’s fun and really great practice.

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Also an update: Thanks in part to your votes, jimiyo is in the final five over at the DBH competition! That is really an accomplishment. The votes have been reset so make sure to say thanks for these great resources with another vote. Good luck jimiyo!

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58 Comments For This Post

  1. aj dimarucot Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 12:14 am -

    Jimiyo you never seem to run out of weapons to get votes haha!

  2. gio Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 12:43 am -

    awesome! :) now i really need to buy a tablet. haha

  3. jaime.radar Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 12:57 am -

    excellent!!! this saves me from spending money on a model of a human skull and taking the photos of different angles myself haha

  4. jimiyo Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 1:02 am -

    hahah aj. its awesome, we are all over the internet all at once. srsly im out of secret weapons. RadioMode got a shirt.woot.com print tonight with a pimp to his DBH.

    You can actually buy this skull from dickblick for $30-$35. It’s where I got mine! I photoshopped the lines and bolts out for you peeps.

  5. Daniel Newman Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 1:19 am -

    Thank you again, Jimiyo, shame I can’t vote more than once.
    I can give you votes on your other dbh shirts, hope that helps. Good luck.

  6. Snickars Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 3:04 am -

    haha this is great! i just checked the price on a skull, $100 +shipping…guess that will have to be put on hold for a while…

  7. gestalter (gestalter) Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 6:39 am -

    skull from diffrent angles http://tinyurl.com/66nh3q

  8. Geoff May Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 8:49 am -

    You can never have too much reference material. Thanks a lot!

  9. Joe Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 8:57 am -

    wow nice. been looking for decent skull models for a while now. TY

  10. digital_13 Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 9:10 am -

    Thanks a ton for this! I’ve been looking for high res. skulls w/open mouths for awhile. :D

  11. Avangelist Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 9:16 am -

    nice touch, never buy photo’s off ebay that is just daft, look around the free stock sites such as xchange

  12. Bill Biwer Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 9:17 am -

    This is a great resource.

    Thanks.

  13. Dermot Reddan Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 9:30 am -

    Thanks!!

  14. jeff_finley (Jeff Finley) Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 10:55 am -

    Free skull reference photos: http://tinyurl.com/66nh3q

  15. George Coghill Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 10:56 am -

    Very cool, thanks for sharing!

  16. Alex Beltechi Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 11:01 am -

    go jimiyo!

  17. Evan Lozano Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 11:18 am -

    Thanks jimiyo. awesome to have 1 skull from different angles. Thanks for sharing!

  18. dc crowley Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 11:29 am -

    Well ’shiver me timbers!’ just what I needed. Friday is ‘talk like a pirate day’ ARGH!

  19. matt q Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 11:32 am -

    Seriously rad Jimiyo. Thanks a lot!!

  20. Chris Stauffer Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 12:48 pm -

    Very cool man, thanks.

  21. dana Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 12:48 pm -

    candy mountain, haha

  22. Alex Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 1:57 pm -

    Thanks jimiyo – good luck!

  23. Andrew Says:
    September 18th, 2008 at 1:07 am -

    cheers!

  24. Ritchie Says:
    September 18th, 2008 at 4:02 am -

    WOOT!!. Thanks for the reference. I can now make my own vector skull… WEEEE :D

  25. ndough Says:
    September 18th, 2008 at 9:17 am -

    hei jimiyo thank its helpful to make some noise at night great post
    yeah also ya great damn art @DBH

  26. socoduce Says:
    September 18th, 2008 at 9:55 am -

    I could use those photos in artwork nevermind the vector potential! lol… I won’t but thatks for taking the time to share.

  27. miguelyoung (miguelyoung) Says:
    September 18th, 2008 at 10:16 am -

    Caveira em HiRes, 15 fotos/angulos, download – http://tinyurl.com/66nh3q -

  28. Kelly Says:
    September 18th, 2008 at 1:17 pm -

    Very, very cool. Thank you!

  29. Make Design, Not War Says:
    September 18th, 2008 at 2:47 pm -

    Awesome set – looking forward to using these as references in the near future. Thanks for yet another great stock resource :)

  30. aj Says:
    September 18th, 2008 at 7:38 pm -

    yea

  31. NaldzGraphics Says:
    September 18th, 2008 at 10:34 pm -

    wow this is great.thanks!!!

    Ronald

  32. James Says:
    September 19th, 2008 at 2:04 am -

    Hi, I found your blog on this new directory of WordPress Blogs at blackhatbootcamp.com/listofwordpressblogs. I dont know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, i duno. Anyways, I just clicked it and here I am. Your blog looks good. Have a nice day. James.

  33. RCKY Says:
    September 19th, 2008 at 6:43 am -

    I was looking for something like this. Thank you.

  34. jimiyo Says:
    September 19th, 2008 at 6:44 am -

    Found another resource Peeps.

    Actually I only made mine because I could not find this one I stumbled on years ago. Now I have found it again.

    http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2004/10/skulls.html

    http://www.electronicmediaarts.com/ema/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=32

  35. Joe Says:
    September 19th, 2008 at 10:51 am -

    So…took the Wacom to these and I’m loving my results :) Thanks again. I’m going to buy a model skull soon!

  36. artninja Says:
    September 30th, 2008 at 3:11 pm -

    Soooo much less work than trying to talk a live person out of their skull (“What? It’s not like you’re REALLY using it. C’mon. Please?”). This is incredibly handy. Thanks!!

  37. DKumar M. Says:
    September 30th, 2008 at 3:54 pm -

    Great Recourse!!

    Now just need few more zombies for new project ;)

  38. t.gee. Says:
    October 6th, 2008 at 3:11 pm -

    Dude you guys are gonna love this site, Dan Akroyd and info on the cyrstal skull legends and well, vodka ouch:
    http://crystalheadvodka.com/

  39. Hugo Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 12:32 am -

    thanks a lot! Just what i´ve looking 4!!

  40. sven Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 4:12 pm -

    Wow, how could I miss this post? Great reference. Who does not love to draw skulls, but somehow I hate to draw them so freakin realisticly. I prefer the comic approach.

  41. Matt Says:
    January 2nd, 2009 at 11:31 pm -

    Thanks for this, I just got a wacom today and this will be great practice

  42. ArtJaz Says:
    January 31st, 2009 at 3:56 pm -

    Brilliant ref material – thanks!

  43. Rosie Says:
    March 16th, 2009 at 12:10 pm -

    You are really sick you should not be doing that at all.

  44. bedroom furniture Says:
    March 17th, 2009 at 3:32 am -

    I dont know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, i duno. Anyways, I just clicked it and here I am. Your blog looks good. Have a nice day.

  45. Kris Says:
    June 23rd, 2009 at 1:39 pm -

    Wow these rock! I got here through a CG Tutorial on cg.tutsplus.com (or PSDtuts.com)

    This link was part of a tutorial.

    Thanks so much!

  46. Dayna Says:
    June 29th, 2009 at 11:13 am -

    Thanks for the nice reference material – this is perfect.

  47. Dayna Says:
    June 29th, 2009 at 12:13 pm -

    Thanks for the nice reference material – this is perfect.

  48. trucpham Says:
    August 29th, 2009 at 2:03 am -

    Hi, I really like the skull pictures above and wanted to download the pictures for my drawing practice. However when I downloaded it, I was unable to see anything. The file name ALLSKULLS with a Quicktime PDS icon, when I double-clicked on it, it shows just a tiny black box image. There was no way I could enlarge it.

    Can anyone help me please??!!!

  49. angela_Tsui Says:
    October 16th, 2009 at 7:32 pm -

    thanks for sharing

  50. angela_Tsui Says:
    October 16th, 2009 at 7:33 pm -

    thanks for sharing

  51. sparesr4sissies Says:
    November 2nd, 2009 at 2:55 pm -

    Wow, that's pretty cool. Maybe I'll use it on my PBA Regional information site.

  52. beautiful photography Says:
    November 23rd, 2009 at 3:46 pm -

    This is cool thanks for sharing it.

  53. Arcnerva Says:
    December 28th, 2009 at 12:07 am -

    Very nice, I can think of many uses for these. Thank you.

  54. Sue Berry Says:
    January 13th, 2010 at 8:47 am -

    Many thanks for these images! I'm a newbie at PSE so will use them to practise with. First experiment on my blog.

  55. skull t-shirt design Says:
    April 10th, 2010 at 1:05 pm -

    Thanks for the skulls. I'll link to them as extra useful stuff in my skull t-shirt tutorial
    http://designertuts.com/skullgrunge-t-shirt-des...

  56. Matt Says:
    May 5th, 2010 at 4:49 am -

    Thanks for this nice work!
    dizi izle

  57. willdabeast Says:
    July 7th, 2010 at 6:28 pm -

    i fucking love you

  58. d-man Says:
    July 31st, 2010 at 11:00 am -

    thanks man, this is freakin awesome

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