Learn to Use Vector Skulls to Create Jaw Dropping Illustrations

Imagine you are in a fashion store and you see all of those clothes standing on hangers waiting to be bought. You see shirts, with short sleeves, long sleeves, short and long pants, dresses, coats, colorful and black or white clothes, scarves, hats and a lot of stuff that, individually taken, don’t impress you that much. Now imagine you have a fashion adviser with you, he hand picks the clothes and the accessories and creates a fabulous outfit for you! When you come out of the fitting room, you won’t believe how great you look and you admit that every piece of clothing has potential if you combine it the right way with others.

Today, I will be your “vector illustration adviser”. I’m going to show you some beautifully designed vector skulls – today’s element of interest – and I’ll show you how you can integrate them into awesome illustrations. I’m going to showcase a series of vector illustrations – some of them are t-shirt designs – that will show you the quality of these hand-drawn vector skulls and what is their potential. This will certainly inspire you and give you some ideas on how you can use our vector skulls packs.

Vector Skulls from Designious.com – skulls resource

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Skulls Vector Pack 22

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Now here are some ideas on how you can integrate these skulls into vector illustrations:

T-shirt design 372 – Zombie Head

Add some “brains” to the skull for an extra scary effect, some bandage, create a grungy background with type texture.

T-shirt design 210

Combine different types of skulls into the illustration, add a blurry background, some wings and some vintage weapons.

T-shirt design 370 – Zombie Maid

Put some hair on your skull! Add some floral elements, some color and some type.

T-shirt design 311 – Geisha and Skull

Place the skull on a body. Here it’s placed on a Geisha body. Add some grunge textures, some type and some chains.

T-shirt design 205

Create a pirate inspired illustration by adding a mast, some swords and some waves. Don’t be afraid to drive a sword through the skull or anything else for a more dramatic effect.

T-shirt design 300 – Death Angel

For a really scary result, place the skull on a baby angel. Add a scythe, some floral elements, some grungy text and there you have it!

T-shirt design 329 – Skull

Why not accessorize your skull with a nice looking cowboy hat? Add a classic type, some wings, some floral elements and a grungy splatter in the background.

T-shirt design 352 – Skull and Black Rays

Put some texture on your skull! In this illustration we have type texture on the skull and in the background, rays, a vintage font and a gloomy color.

T-shirt design 191

Skulls go wonderfully with wings. In this illustration we have wings, two little angels, some floral elements, all in a gold look.

T-shirt design 190

Use floral elements to surround the skull, and make a composition of one big skull in the middle and two small one aside.

T-shirt design 347 – Mad Skull

Who said that a skull can’t have eyes? Add a couple of big eyes with bloody veins popping out of the skull. Finish that with a grungy looking background, some text and two hands.

T-shirt design 242

Skulls also work very well with heraldry elements. This illustrations has it all: skull, heraldry, wings, crown, rays, floral elements and a grungy texture.

T-shirt design 278

Look how pretty it looks! A frame made out of skulls! Add a sexy woman, some wings, some flowers, some birds and a dark background.

T-shirt design 189

A skull with a beautiful background support made from baroque inspired floral elements, wings and vintage type.

T-shirt design 376 – Reinforced Skull

Reinforce your skull! Put a mask on it, add some red looking textures, some type, a grungy background.

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Create a racing inspired skull by adding a helmet, some checkers flags, a grungy background with florals and wings.

T-shirt design 288 – Dark Angel

Place your skull on a baby angel body and place it in a floral frame. Add a crow, Gothic fonts, more floral elements around and you’ll have a cool vintage looking illustration!

T-shirt design 238

Replace the face of a woman with your skull, but leave her hair on! Add floral elements to complete the design. Color the woman so that she stands out in the illustration and leave the background in black and white.

T-shirt design 236

Create a bloody red illustration by coloring all the negative spaces in red. Add a pair of wings, some rays, some heraldry and of course, some beautifully detailed floral elements.

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Play with your skull! Create a reflection effect to it and make it more freaky! Add wings, vintage type, grunge texture and floral elements.

Vector vintage illustration with skull

Give a grunge old feeling to your illustration, use pale vintage looking colors, add some rays, some splashes, and some swirls.

Circle vector vintage illustration with skull

Give your skull a rusty appearance by using brown and orange grunge textures, add some groovy rays on the background, finish it up with some text and some floral elements and swirls.

Wings vector t-shirt design with skulls

A clean example of how you can combine different types of skulls and how beautifully they work with some floral elements and wings in the background.

Vector illustration – vintage emblem

This a more abstract way of integrating a skull into a design. If you want to be out of the box, add some 3d arrows, some flags, some splashes and florals. You can also make the illustration in black and white and one color.

Ornate vector background – vintage emblem

Create a vintage looking illustration by adding some old wood texture, a pair of wings, some detailed floral elements and finish it by making it black and brown.

Your turn now

How would you use these vector skulls packs from Designious? With what other elements would you combine them? Please show us your outcome.

How to Use Vector Skulls to Create Jaw Dropping Illustrations