250+ Skull Photoshop Brushes for Funky Designs
The use of skulls as a graphic element in design has many and varied meanings. Skulls could symbolize different things such as death, rebellion, change, depending on how you incorporate skull sin your overall design. Of all these meanings, death is probably the most obvious connection with the skull. Pirates, on the other hand, used the skulls to show their lawlessness and total disregard for rules. Some military units have also used the skull as a symbol of victory or strength. In music, skull combined with rose became popular in the 1960s and 1970s as part of a promotion for rock ‘n’ roll bands. Today, skulls combined with other grunge elements remain to be a popular design options in the rock ‘n roll music community. You see skull sin CDs, posters and even t-shirts.
In this post, we put together more than 250 skull Photoshop brushes in case you need them in your artwork. These skull Photoshop brushes are great for designing promotional CDs for a rock band, an invitation to a rock party, and even for designing posters and shirts. To download the set that you want, simply follow the link found below each preview image. I hope you will find something useful in this roundup.
01-Damaged Death Skulls
This pack includes 55 skulls, 5 heart designs, 3 grunge stripes, and 3 random skull brushes that you can use for non-commercial designs.The size of the brushes range from 100 pixels to 700 pixels.
02-Grunge Skull and Splatter Brushes by Keep-Waiting
There are 40 skull Photoshop brushes in this that you may use for non-commercial projects only. Includes the clean vector raster versions of the skulls in various sizes/rotations and splatters, some leopard print grunge brushes and grunge skull brushes. These brushes should work with Photoshop 7 and later versions (including Photoshop Elements).
03-Self-made Skull Photoshop Brushes
There are a total of 13 individual brushes in this pack you may use freely to create Horror-themed and designs.
04-Skull Brushes
This pack includes 18 skull Photoshop brushes created in CS2. It should work with any CS version of Photoshop. If you are using PS7, a download link for that particular version is likewise available from the download page.
05-Skull Brushes by Aphonso
Another set of really scary skull Photoshop brushes created in CS2.
06-Pirate Skulls Brushes
A set of free brushes inspired by the famous sea pirates. These brushes were made from pirates flags, symbols, skulls, crossbones, etc. There areĀ 11 brushes in this pack that you can use in your designs.
07-Brushes of Death
There are six skull Photoshop brushes in this set that you can use for free in your designs. The zip archive is password protected. Password may be obtained from the author’s art page inDdeviantart.
08-Skull Brushes by Nayume
There are 18 useful skull brushes in this set that you may use for free.
09-Skull brushes by Redeemer-of-light
There are a total of 25 highly detailed skull Photoshop brushes in this set made in CS2. This should work with any CS version of Photoshop.
10-Skull by Hanyasatu
There are 10 tribal-inspired skull Photoshop brushes in this pack.
11-Nimpscher’s Skull Brushes
Here are some skull brushes for Photoshop created in CS.
12-There are 12 skulls here that you may use for designing in Photoshop. One of these skull images are from “Hellgate: London”.
13-Skulls Brushes from Circle of Fire
Another set of hand drawn skulls brushes you can use for free. Great for cute rock ‘n roll themed designs.
14-Funky Skulls Hi-Res Brush Pack
A set of 7 high- resolution (very large) brushes composed of skulls you can use to create funky designs in Photoshop.
15-Skull Girls
Just in case you need some cute girly skulls, here is a set that you can use in designing.