Ok well time for another mini tutorial, this time it's blood. Hell if i'm not morbid at least once a day ppl start to expect more of me =)

NB. This tutorial was written about my methods in photoshop but can be applied to any GFX software. Also I don't go into insane detail about the brush settings used because I believe it's pointless as every picture is different.

Credits:- sedaseda-aka-assenoost's Zombie Texture for Michael available in the R'sity freestuff section

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1. Base image rendered at 2200 X 2200 & 300dpi (the bigger the picture the easier to work with and more detail you can put in it) - I've already done a considerable amount of work on the skin but since this tutorial is specifically for Blood, that's what you're going to get.

2. Create a new layer. Then grab a solid round paintbrush (I used size 20 Opacity 100%) and mark in where you want the blood, in this case my character is someone I'd dearly love to take to a posh restaurant ;) I'm relatively rough with my sketching as you can see.

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3. Grab your smudge brush (I used a few soft round 5, 7, 17, 20 pixel brushes with opacities varying from 50 - 90%) and start smudging the hell out of what you've just drawn. Things to take into consideration when you're doing this is the curves of the surface you're working with, make sure your blood flows with them and GRAVITY!

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4. Work out where your lighting is coming from so you can get your highlights in the right place.

Next grab your burn brush and burn the highlights and midtones in the appropriate places. In this case the middle of the lips and under the lip on the right hand side.

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5. Create a new layer. Grab a small hard paintbrush and then draw in some highlights according to the angle the light is coming from.

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6. Grab a small smudge brush and then blend the white highlights you've just made. You may need to add a little more paint to certain areas because when you smudge the highlight loses it's crispness.

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7. I've just played with the brightness and contrast (IMAGE menu > ADJUST > BRIGHTNESS CONTRAST) on the Blood layer to give the blood a richer look. (I've also written a tutorial on the Curves Tool which can be found in the tutorial section here).

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8. Grab the dodge brush and dodge the highlights to give a little more depth.

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9. And we're finished finally.

Hope everyone can get some use out this, if you have any questions, or want me to write another mini tutorial on anything feel free to harass me!

Roses,
.[SinSister].


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