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Blood glistens. It needs highlights; otherwise it'll look flat and painted-on.

Blood also dries relatively fast on the edges, and it tends to flake. A little texturing on the outside, and the glistens to the wet spots should help bring it out.

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Too many rivulets of blood as well- blood is thick and has cohesion so it tends to stick together. Maybe only one or two branches as it runs down the arm. Also, it'll be rounded at the ends where the drops pool up, not spiky, and won't thin out so much- nearly as wide at the bottom of the stream as at the middle. If you can actually bump-map or distortion-map the drops at the end, that'll add even more realism.

Depends upon whether you intend the blood to be coming out of an artery or a vein. Blood tends to spurt out of arteries and drip out of veins. You will want some blood drops as well as being smeared across the skin. The surface tension of blood keeps the shape uniform. So the drop is spherical not tear-drop shaped. The easiest way to deal with the blood smears is postwoek. When you smear the blood across the skin do it in several layers with transparencies so it isn't all the same color. That way the wound still looks like its bleeding while some of the red blood cells would appear to have dried on the skin.

wow hehhe i never expected this much information on blood dripping. it's more mean as blood dripping from a head would that he's cluthing at. i'll check out the blood tutorial asap :)

by the way, the blood WAS painted on :p i tried modifying the texture, but it was a bit beyond me and i wanted to get the idea out before it left my head

LOL... I'm a forensic scientist so I could help but give you all the blood info. P.S. the tutorial has the kind of advice I suggested with creating new layers and adding highlights and transparencies.

blood drips and forms beads at the bottom of the drip and it drips down, not across. Heh, no pun intended. Look online for some fake blood recipes and mix some up and out it in the right places. Observe what it does. Or, if yu don't want to mix up fake blood and you're willing to suffer for your art... there's always the gothier approach.

hahah thanks but no thanksd dodger :p i'll stick to our forensic scientist here hehe

Yeesh, I guess I'm the only one who can't see ANY blood at all in this image??!!??

hmm...for smeared & painted blood, a good photoshop layer or three should do the trick. If you have photo shop, use the polygon select on a new layer over the area you want the blood...fill it w/ a crimson color...deselect your polygon...use the smear tool & smear the blood how you like it...then use the burn tool to created the dried or coagulated blood effect. then you can use the dodge tool for lighter, less stained areas. Oila! at least...that's what I'd do. Evo

Well, I do really recommend the fake blood or at least a trip around the web to the horror movie fansites. The fact is, a verbal description is never gonna carry as much information as a picture that does look like blood or, perpahs more importantly in art -- like blood is expected to look.

No, Pookah69, you're not alone, no blood at all. Emily

I don't get it either. Where's that blood??!

hehehehe ooooops :p i fixed the eyes and forgot the blood :p sorry about that heheh the 'blood' is back on now

Hmm.. if the orange tint of the eyes is supposed to be blood... sorry, it doesn't look like blood to me.

no, the red thing on his hand is supposed to be blood :p

Ah :o} It was JUST outside the wiewable area of my screen... Still I think it needs some glint or bevel or whatever. Looks more like a tattoo to me :o) Would make a cool tattoo btw...

Well... I tried to get a blood effect with eye candy... I painted just the way you did, but it was drip by drip.. then I used the layer effect to emboss it.. them I used eye candy chrome effect (crimson) .. then.. I smeared with the brishes and I think I almost got there... hope it helps a bit hugs ILona