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.
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!
September 17th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Jimiyo you never seem to run out of weapons to get votes haha!
September 17th, 2008 at 12:43 am
awesome!
now i really need to buy a tablet. haha
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
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.
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.
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…
September 17th, 2008 at 8:49 am
You can never have too much reference material. Thanks a lot!
September 17th, 2008 at 8:57 am
wow nice. been looking for decent skull models for a while now. TY
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.
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
September 17th, 2008 at 9:17 am
This is a great resource.
Thanks.
September 17th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Thanks!!
September 17th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
September 17th, 2008 at 11:01 am
go jimiyo!
September 17th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Thanks jimiyo. awesome to have 1 skull from different angles. Thanks for sharing!
September 17th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Well ’shiver me timbers!’ just what I needed. Friday is ‘talk like a pirate day’ ARGH!
September 17th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Seriously rad Jimiyo. Thanks a lot!!
September 17th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Very cool man, thanks.
September 17th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
candy mountain, haha
September 17th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Thanks jimiyo - good luck!
September 18th, 2008 at 1:07 am
cheers!
September 18th, 2008 at 4:02 am
WOOT!!. Thanks for the reference. I can now make my own vector skull… WEEEE
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
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.
September 18th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Very, very cool. Thank you!
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
September 18th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
yea
September 18th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
wow this is great.thanks!!!
Ronald
September 19th, 2008 at 2:04 am
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September 19th, 2008 at 6:43 am
I was looking for something like this. Thank you.
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
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!
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!!
September 30th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Great Recourse!!
Now just need few more zombies for new project
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/
October 9th, 2008 at 12:32 am
thanks a lot! Just what i´ve looking 4!!
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.