{"id":906,"date":"2021-08-03T12:18:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T12:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestrackinglink.com\/?p=906"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:09:05","slug":"how-to-paint-a-skull-in-3-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestrackinglink.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/03\/how-to-paint-a-skull-in-3-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Paint a Skull in 3 Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Want to learn how to paint a skull in 3 simple, no-fuss steps?<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Did you participate in our recent\u00a0Paintable Discord<\/a>\u00a0challenge: Render a\u00a0realistic-looking skull<\/strong>? \"\ud83d\udc80\"<\/p>\n

After I finished and submitted my skull, I got some great questions from the participants around how I created it. So I recorded this speed painting to show you\u00a0the 3 quick & simple steps I took:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Sketch the skull\u00a0<\/b>using a reference image as a guide<\/li>\n
  2. Bring in some volume\u00a0<\/b>by adding basic values and texture without getting into too much detail<\/li>\n
  3. Add realistic depth and dimension <\/b>to the skull with occlusion shadows<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    I go into each step in detail in the video. \"\ud83d\udc47\"<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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    In the video, I also show you a\u00a0great free online tool called\u00a0Sketchfab\u00a0<\/a>that I use to find 3D renderings\u00a0of objects I want to paint. (This is how I found a great angle of a skull I used for warm-up sketches in this tutorial.)<\/p>\n

    Want to hop into one of our upcoming free digital art challenges?<\/b> I\u2019d love for you to join us! Hop into the\u00a0Paintable Discord community<\/a>, then find the #paintable-challenges channel. \"\ud83d\ude4c\"<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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    The post How to Paint a Skull in 3 Steps<\/a> appeared first on Paintable<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Want to learn how to paint a skull in 3 simple, no-fuss steps? Did you participate in our recent\u00a0Paintable Discord\u00a0challenge: Render a\u00a0realistic-looking skull? After I … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestrackinglink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestrackinglink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestrackinglink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestrackinglink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestrackinglink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bestrackinglink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/bestrackinglink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestrackinglink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestrackinglink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestrackinglink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestrackinglink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}