How to Draw Realistic Cuts

For Halloween or to get you out of school, you can draw a real wound on your face, hand, or other part of the body. If they want to look closer, shout that it hurts and you are afraid that they will touch you. Look video on how to draw a wound.

Using brown paint, draw a 2mm thick line and lightly brush the edges.

Using paint 2-3 shades lighter than the main one, draw 2 lines parallel to the brown one and blend their edges outward. Do not blend the white lines into the wound, but just soften the edges.

Using the same paint, but with an admixture of blue, highlight or draw the veins. Do this with light strokes, trying not to apply a thick layer of paint.

Where there is a highlight, there should be a shadow nearby: using paint 2-3 shades darker than the main one, lightly shade the drawn veins and folds in the wrist area.

Next, mix burgundy paint with scarlet and draw a thin line in the middle of the brown one. Short black strokes located at the “bottom” of the drawn cut will give greater depth to the wound.

Be sure to powder such art so that the makeup does not give natural highlights where they should not be. Diffuse lighting and matte surface are two necessary conditions for light and shadow techniques.

Bruises
To begin with, forget the myth that to depict a bruise it is enough to paint a spot with purple paint, as some authors advise. Depending on the age of formation, the bruise has a different color. In the first hours after its appearance, it is purplish-red, by the third day it becomes blue-purple (blue shades are located on the periphery), then a brown-green tint appears. After about a week (depending on the degree of damage), the bruise becomes three-colored: yellow at the edges, greenish in the middle, and purple-blue in the center (the point of contact with the damaging object).
When depicting a bruise, do not shade the paint evenly: apply it with a large-pored sponge with light, slightly gliding touches. Don't add a lot of paint at once, you can always add more.
According to a somewhat simplified diagram, a bruise is depicted as follows:
Having determined the shape of the future bruise, place blue paint in its center and blend it well.

Using your finger, apply yellow paint along the edges of the bruise, blending it both inside and outside the bruise.

Add some burgundy paint to the center of the bruise, and mix it with the blue paint.

Mix all the colors until you find the bruise realistic.
If you want a darker bruise, intensify the colors with black paint.
Pinpoint hemorrhages are depicted in the center of the bruise by light touches with a sponge with a mixture of burgundy and scarlet paints.

If you are imitating the pricked arm of a drug addict, then do not forget to put red dots from recent injections at the site of the veins.
Do not paint the bruise after you have applied the overall tone, as the paint will change color and saturation. If you need a wound on top of the bruise, sculpt it out of wax or gum before you draw the bruise. Paint over the surface of the molding with a brush so as not to disturb the texture. Small scratches can be painted with collodion (also up to the point of bruising).
P.S.
Notice the elbow crease area in these photos. They show real bruises and puncture marks: rather unsightly, isn't it?

To get blood for Halloween, the modern vampire doesn't have to rob the local blood drive or rely on the luck of witnessing a car accident to collect the blood of the dead. You can make excellent blood yourself from readily available ingredients. And don’t let the prospect of feeding on surrogate blood for an eternity bother you: some types of it are much tastier than the real thing, and look very natural.

There are many recipes for imitation blood. They vary in color (venous, capillary, universal), consistency (liquid, natural, thick, clots), and area of ​​application (food, ophthalmic, non-food). Manufacturers of theatrical cosmetics offer such a wide range of fake blood that one can easily get confused in this “gastronomic” abundance. Blood comes in different forms: liquid, paste, gel, jelly, and powder for dilution. There are “magic” capsules that, when you bite into them, create a wonderful bloody foam in your mouth that you can spit out. There is also two-component blood, which appears when two clear liquids are mixed.

This abundance is determined by the wide variety of recipes used by manufacturers. Each manufacturer strives to ensure that its “blood” completely imitates the real one, but at the same time has some advantages. Imitation blood must be stored for a long time, be safe for health, be easy to wash off clothing, taste good, and be suitable for a specific application (for example, blood should not dry out during the entire shooting day). It is impossible to combine all these qualities in one product, and therefore a certain type of blood must be used for each case.

In one horror film, we see a scene in which a huge tanker filled with blood overturns (even if it’s a scaled-down model, but still). Why not use expensive food colorings and glycerin as a base for this purpose?! It is much easier and cheaper to fill this barrel with blood based on aniline dye and carboxymethylcellulose (wallpaper glue).

Almost the entire range of color-matching dyes can be used to make blood. You can take gouache, acrylic, aniline, watercolor, oil paints, food coloring, beetroot, cranberry juice, mineral construction colors and more. It all depends on what you want to get and for what purposes.
Most of the non-food imitations of blood are available, and they are usually cheaper. However, there are many quite edible recipes.

So, the cheapest and quite pleasant-tasting recipe:

Grate the required amount of beets (preferably young ones) on a grater (or in a juicer). Place it in a saucepan and add enough water to cover the entire mass by a couple of centimeters. While stirring, boil this pulp and add a little sugar, vodka and vinegar to it (it acts as a preservative and makes the beet juice bloodier, but the main thing is not to overdo it: therefore, alcohol is used as an additional preservative). You need to add vodka after the brew has cooled, otherwise it will evaporate. You can also add a little food additive with berry flavor and flavoring.

Strain the cooled contents of the saucepan through several layers of gauze, and pour the cake again with water, vinegar and sugar, and boil again. Secondary brewed blood can be used, for example, to water a crime scene - it looks and flows, unfortunately, no longer as realistic as the primary one.

When heated for a long time, beet blood thickens and turns brown. The amount of sugar will determine the degree of thickness, and similar thick and brown beetroot jam can be used to imitate curds. By introducing a certain amount of gelatin into already boiled juice, you can make wonderful congealed blood. Don't forget that gelatin cannot be boiled, otherwise it will lose its properties!

Beet blood should be stored in the refrigerator to prevent it from becoming moldy.

Beet blood is darker than true venous blood and can have different shades, depending on the type of beet, the amount of vinegar and the length of cooking. But most viewers and make-up artists consider it very realistic.

On the Internet I found another blood recipe that deserves attention.

1. 0.5l sugar syrup
2. 100 drops red food coloring
3. 1/4 cup of water
4. 1/4 cup sifted flour or cornstarch
5. 8 drops blue food coloring

I don't know what kind of dyes should be used in this recipe, or what the actual volume of the "mug" used as a unit of measurement is here. But this recipe is interesting because it uses flour to give it a characteristic density and cloudiness. This is a great idea because real blood is by nature a dispersion of red blood cells in plasma.

Very often, blood is made using glycerin with the addition of food coloring. Blood based on food dyes such as rhodanite and amaranth is very difficult to wash off from the skin, and very difficult to remove from clothing (very often this is simply impossible). At the Mosfilm film studio, blood is made on the basis of rhodanite and glycerin - I do not recommend using it. If you need non-drying food blood, use beetroot with gelatin. Non-drying blood that is less absorbent into the skin can be made on the basis of glycerin or vegetable oil and dry mineral pigments used in the production of gouache paints.

If you have amaranth or rhodanite food dyes available and you want to make blood from them, do not rush to use glycerin as a base. The paint will be easier to clean if you dilute it with clear shampoo or shower gel. Such blood will no longer taste sweet, but bitter, but will remain safe for health.

If you need blood to flood your eyes, prepare it using sugar syrup and food coloring E122 (sold in kits for coloring Easter eggs). Use only the highest quality ingredients and distilled water to make eye blood. Maintain sterility when preparing: conjunctivitis and other eye diseases are very unpleasant things! And be sure to test the finished product for yourself!

Among non-food imitations of blood, blood based on scarlet aniline fabric dye and wallpaper glue has very good characteristics.
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It has a believable color and low cost. You can prepare it right on the spot in any quantities, since both glue and dye are easily diluted even in cold water. It is very easy to regulate not only the thickness and richness of such blood, but also the color - by adding aniline dyes of other colors (blue, brown, yellow, black). But blood prepared using aniline dyes has a significant drawback - prolonged contact with the skin and ingestion should be avoided.

Instead of store-bought wallpaper glue, when making blood, you can use flour or starch paste (previously, wallpaper was glued with flour paste). By tinting the paste with different colors, you can get magnificent mucus, alien blood, and other unsightly phlegm.

In construction supply stores you can find mineral colors suitable for finishing work. It can be mixed with almost any vegetable oil (olive, sunflower, corn...) if you need non-drying blood, or simply diluted with wallpaper glue to the desired thickness (in this case, in composition, it is almost gouache).

If you are making some kind of dummy and you need non-drying and non-absorbing blood, use artistic oil paints melted with paraffin. Instead of paints, you can just as easily use dry mineral pigment.

In addition to all of the above, when preparing blood with flour paste, you will experience an incomparable sensation if you put your hand in a pan with cooling blood. It is thick, warm and as slippery as the real thing!

Never use real blood!
Some extreme directors insist on using real blood in the filming process. Of course, for this they take the blood of animals, most often bovine. Acetic acid is usually added to it as a preservative - that’s why this pickled blood stinks terribly. Real blood spoils very quickly, its use is unhygienic, and many actors simply disdain it. Using real blood can lead to dire consequences: if it gets into the slightest scratch on an actor’s body, it can easily provoke blood poisoning and gangrene. Such cases have already happened - do not repeat the sad experience of your predecessors.

The problem of finding suitable imitation blood is a stumbling block for almost everyone involved in special effects and makeup. I offer you a unique opportunity to compare real blood with several simulated blood samples, for which I sacrificed five milliliters of my venous blood. Focus on the color of the white office paper against which all this was photographed.

This is what real venous blood looks like. She's still warm!

This is what blood looks like based on scarlet aniline fabric paint diluted with wallpaper glue.

This is what blood looks like based on beet juice with the addition of a small amount of scarlet aniline dye.

This is what blood looks like from beet juice and aniline paint with clots from beet “jam” (beet juice + sugar + gelatin + vinegar). In my opinion, it’s very good. In any case, it looks better than natural.

This is what real coagulated blood looks like with dried spots on white paper. There shouldn’t be any problems at all with simulating dried blood stains: the stain is not liquid and doesn’t flow, and it’s easier to choose the color. Use regular gouache or watercolor paints, and don’t invent anything else.
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As you can see, the differences are minimal and in most cases negligible. I'm sure there will always be someone who will say that the blood in your photographs looks unnatural. Conclusion: don’t be upset, and show your opponent real blood, maybe even his own.
P.S.: Use ketchup only for food.

Drawing fake cuts with makeup is easier than it seems. You can create many different external injuries: simple cuts, abrasions, or even decapitation! It won't take long, cost a lot, or involve a lot of swearing. However, you will need some creativity.