Lesson: Students will design and draw tattoos after asking important cultural questions and looking at examples of the good, the bad, and the ugly.

1. Warm-up: Tattoos & Body Modification
1. What is your personal opinion about tattoos
and other body modifications?
2. Is there such a thing as a bad tattoo?
3. Do you want to get a tattoo one day? Do you
have any tattoos?
4. Do you know anyone who has regretted
getting a tattoo?
5. Why do you think tattoos are so popular right
now?

5. Your Assignment: Design a Tattoo
• It could be for yourself, or for a friend or
family member
• It can be humorous or serious
• Use inspiration from tattoos you’ve seen
before, or come up with something
completely original!
• Tattoos are drawn carefully and precisely.
Practice your drawing skills like line drawing
and shading

7. Tattoos & Body Modifications Closure
1. Where do you suppose the history of
tattooing and body modification comes
from?
2. How has tattooing evolved over the years to
what it is today?
3. How has the attitude about tattoos changed
over the last 50 years?
4. What do you think the attitudes about
tattooing will be 25 years from now?