Día De Los Muertos / Day of the Dead | One Shot - Video

Dia De Los Muertos is a traditional two day holiday celebrated in Mexico, which reunite the living and the dead. Families visit cemeteries to honor and celebrate with their departed family members as though the were alive. Making food and playing music in order to understand that death is part of life.

This woman ,undressed, with a Calavera painted face is meant to represent just how little we take with us to the afterlife. No jewelry, no fine clothes, nothing to hide or protect them. Her naked boobs are exposed and made pleasing are there in order to show how even the most beautiful people will end up gone one day. No one lives forever.

The flowers on her head are those left for the recently departed. Some of the flowers on her head are meant to be Mexican Marigolds which are believed to be used to guide the spirits to the offering meals

She is holding or gripping the skin around her stomach to represent the lack of food for the dead as well as the Ofrendas (the offerings of meals) left for the dead on these days.

This drawing is completed using a mix of cross hatching and blending to get the desired effect necessary for this to work. Drawing large boobs is often a challenge, especially when they are fake, as most artist are trained with models that have natural boobs. I will continue This one took two plus days to complete and I still wasn't super pleased with the body, but we need to set solid deadlines or we would never get anything done as artists.