I decided to retry making the skull again and was much more satisfied with it this time. It wasn’t quite right yet though.

I moved the skull into place in the staff and proceeded to make changes to the shape to make sure it fit and looked better. I also decided to make the skull hollow, and have the eyes, nose thing and the crack in it show this. So I added thickness through extrusion.

I modelled the arrow to put through the skull with a cylinder for the arrow shaft, and then a cube for the arrowhead. The back of the arrow was made using the plane process again. I had originally tried to model it while angled and placed where I wanted it to be in the skull, but quickly realised that wasn’t working and redid it flat on the plane, and moved it to where I needed it afterwards.