Cute skull pixel art

A cartoon skull that is more cute than scary, in black and white for Halloween and Day of the Dead crafts.

Preview of the finished cute skull pixel art
How it looks finished (rendered from the chart)
Pattern details
Size16 × 16 pixels
Colours2 · hex colours
Total pixels150
DifficultyBeginner (1/5)
Finished size16 × 16 px
LicenceCC BY-NC 4.0 — free for personal use with credit

Materials

ColourCodeNamePixelsShareAmount
#1111117651%76 px
#FFFFFF7449%74 px

About this design

The skull is rounded at the top and narrows to a jaw with three black teeth gaps. The eye sockets are large and filled solid, with a single white notch to keep the face friendly, and the nose is a small upside-down triangle.

How to use it

Use it for Halloween bead magnets, a pirate party, or decorate it with colourful flowers in the editor for a Day of the Dead calavera. It glows nicely in glow-in-the-dark fuse beads in place of the white.

Size and bead counts

The picture fills 150 of the 256 squares in its grid, within an area 14 squares wide and 14 tall; the rest stay empty. It uses 2 colours: black 76 (#111111), white 74 (#FFFFFF). Made with 5 mm fuse beads it measures about 7.0 × 7.0 cm and fits on one standard 29 × 29 pegboard. Stitched on 14-count Aida it is about 2.5 × 2.5 cm, or 3.2 × 3.2 cm on 11-count, so add a few centimetres of fabric on every side for the hoop.

Colour chart for cute skull pixel art with a bold line every 8
Colour chart preview. The PDF adds symbols, row and column numbers and the full key.

Colour plan

#111111 does the most work, 51% of the 150 pixels, followed by #FFFFFF at 49%. Every colour is used at least 74 times, so there are no tiny one-off details to hunt for. 41% of the grid is left empty.

Working notes

It is 16 × 16 pixels; at 8× scale it becomes 128 × 128. The busiest row changes colour 8 times.

This is an original CraftPatterns design, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0: stitch it, share it and gift what you make — please credit craftpatterns.app and don't sell the pattern itself. Want to change it? Open it in the pixel art editor.

Seasonalskullhalloweenspookyday of the deadpirateblack and whiteblack and white pixel art2 colourscolour by square

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