Tres Generaciones: Birth, Life, Death A.K.A. Sugar skulls
October 4th, 2007
I tend to do tattoos with more form and not so simple in structure. I was asked to do this Dias de los Muertos type tattoo. It is based off of a Latin American concept the “Tres Generaciones” Birth, Life, Death . This was the sculpture she found to give me for reference but I was to separate and stack them because they were going on her leg.
I drew up the art for the design with Birth being a skull covered in flowers, Life being the sun (heavily featured in Latin American culture) and the Death skull being represented with the web and spider.
I found through research and the tattoo owner that the skull designs don’t have a set meaning. The decoration is purely left up to the artist or individual. That made designing easier for the fact that tattoos are permanent and when you mess up an Iconic tattoo or something in another language; even with a clever cover up or fix it still will never be the same as just having done it right the first time.
Here I got most of the tattoo done. I went with gray wash over doing blue for shading to keep the tattoo from looking cartoony. I need to finish the Birth head with the flowers and then color in the sunrays and the leg will be ready for the next tattoo.
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