Elegant Calavera Woman Portrait In Day Of The Dead Style Coloring Page

Unlike the bare skulls in this set, this is a living face wearing calavera makeup, and the drawing keeps every human feature under the paint. Her eyes are real eyes with long lashes and shaped brows, ringed by a heavy painted circle picked out in dots. A web pattern spreads across the forehead under a small floral crest, and the mouth is painted into a stitched tooth line that runs past the corners of her actual lips. Two large open roses are pinned into a headscarf that wraps her hair, with a third rose appearing at the lower left edge. Below the chin she wears a choker of small beads, then a longer strand carrying a round flower pendant, and a pair of teardrop earrings frames the jaw. The neckline of her dress is edged with a scalloped band and scattered heart shapes. Faces are harder to color than skulls because skin tone has to stay even across a large area, so lay it down first in a light layer and build up rather than starting dark. Leave the painted areas white. The contrast between bare paper and skin is what makes the makeup read as makeup instead of pattern.