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How to draw Dia De Los Muertos Girl - Draw Tattoo Art

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How to draw day of the dead girl skull tattoo:
In this drawing lesson, you'll learn how to draw the basic features of 7 different funky skulls. If you choose, you can then color and decorate your skull drawings for the Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos)! 

For examples, see my skull drawings on the right.
These were all done in pencil and are the basic outline for the fancy, intensely-decorated skulls that I create for Día de Muertos. In later lessons, you'll learn how to decorate them with patterns and funky colors to create a skull drawing that is fun, lively, and uniquely you! First, let's draw some skulls!

Draw the upper half of a half-circle. Continue drawing the lines, as if you were about to draw a circle. Leave an opening at the bottom. Connect the 2 ends by drawing a wide u-shaped line. Draw 2 nostrils in the middle, the lower half of the skull. Draw 2 wide circles for the eyes. Add a line for the mouth and several smaller lines for teeth.
 
In these modern times, Halloween is associated with trick or treating, costumes, and candy. It’s also associated with the grotesque, horror and fear. It is largely a hedonistic holiday all about indulging in food, sweets, and alcohol. Costumes vary between terrifying, provocative, hilarious, and strange. In short, it is a holiday all about the self.

Día de Los Muertos, on the other hand, is a holiday honoring deceased relatives and friends. Rooting for the Catholic All Souls’ Day as well as Aztec and other indigenous beliefs, it is a vibrant holiday that bears little resemblance to the Halloween we celebrate today. 

Food, candles, and Calaveras are brought to the graves of those who have passed on as of rendas, or offerings. Marigolds are used in abundance due to the belief that they invite the spirits of the dead back to earth. Contrary to the spooky connotations of Halloween, Día de Los Muertos is a bright, cheerful celebration.
Sure, it involves hanging out in a graveyard all night with the spirits of the dead while surrounded by the skull and skeleton-themed decorations. 

However, there is absolutely nothing scary or grotesque about a sugar skull. You won’t find ghosts, monsters, or pumpkins on these decorative confections. Instead, sugar skulls are adorned with brightly colored frosting, foil, beads, feathers, and even rhinestones. Common decorative motifs include crosses (a product of the Catholic influence on the holiday), marigolds, mandalas and all sorts of patterns. Oftentimes the name of the deceased person the sugar skull is made for will be written across the forehead. 

The key to sugar skull decorating is remembering that it is about celebrating the life of a loved one – it is a joyous activity, not macabre.

One of the biggest challenges artists face when exploring the art of other cultures is avoiding the cultural appropriation trap. Cultural appropriation is when the dominant culture, or the majority, borrows aspects from minority cultures outside of their intended context. It differs from cultural assimilation, in which minority cultures adopt aspects of the majority culture in order to fit in. 


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