IMHO the blood looks good. I agree it should be darker and normally you do not get a lot of bleeding while the object is still stuck in the wound as Carolly pointed out. Also, where the wound is through armour, most of the bleeding will occur underneath and will trail out at the joints and seems etc. However, never let reality stand in the way of good art. I have posed figures taken from pictures of people and animals caught in motion - the pose in the render is identical to the pose in the real life photo and I have had folks tell me the pose looks fake and that animals/people do not move that way, etc. Truth is sometime the hardest thing about Art (and Photography) I think is making the natural look natural. Rob