#blood tutorial

can you drop a tutorial on how you draw blood digitally..................../nf

I draw with procreate, I made this color palette myself and this is the brush I use

generally i keep a pretty light hand when blending especially in areas where the blood would be thinner and a lighter shade, having your background color show through helps give it a more realistic look

examples of details

Adding a darker+thinner line in trails help make them pop, using a pencil or charcoal brush on areas where the blood wouldn’t be as thick/dried to give it a different texture

Other tips I can think of

-the thicker/older the blood the darker, the thinner the blood the lighter

-try to highlight with lighter reds rather than white

-think people usually advise against using black to shade but I use it for blood

-step back occasionally so you don’t overwork what you have and lose the shape

-references are the best way to understand how blood looks and behaves

Thank you so much!💖💖💖

You didn’t really ask how I draw blood but I thought of sharing anyway 💦💦

I paint with PaintTool SAI 2 and I use the marker pen when drawing blood. Since I use a gray background when answering asks I use a very dark red when painting since it looks better. 

I also do it in two different ways.  

The first one I use layer effect. You find it above your layers and I put the effect on Water Fringe and put the width around10. The intensity is 100. It will give the color you are painting with a darker edge. And then adding some shine to it also.

The second option to do it gives almost the same results. Instead of going to effect, I go to the mode and select shade/shine. 

If I try these versions on a white background I would not give the same results. instead, I use a lighter red to draw with.

Here I use the first version and use Water Fringe and put the width on 6 instead.

You can probably play around with these and find your way of doing it. 👍Sorry for explaining it a bit weirdly.  Explaining is not really my strong side. 💦

Yes! Here are links to some tutorials!

Blood tutorial Master Post on tumblr (contains multiple tutorials)Painting Blood Step By Step by cgcookie on deviantart Blood tutorial step by step by domirine on tumblrBlood tutorial by beccahallstedt on twitter

Remember that blood is a liquid and it moves and reflects like one too! I recommend looking at references like stills from slasher/horror movies! I hope these help ❤

thank you! i received stuff to hopefully help with them recently ;;. as for the blood tutorial, i draw it super unprofessionally and take massive advantage of drawing program features like shade/multiply layers and brush settings BUT heres how i do it more or less