Today I would like to share my technique for painting blood effects, bloody organs etc. It is really easy technique and has quite nice results.
Blood and gore technique
Colors: Blood red, Flesh wash, Black ink, Gloss varnish
Brush: Standard brush, Stippling brush (not necessarry), any tough brush (Small drybrush for example)
1 - blood wound/organs/large area of blood
Mix blood red with flesh wash about 50:50. This should create nice looking darker blood and also should be thinner than regular colour. Apply it to the spot. Now washes. It is your call, you can experiment here. I recommend medium wash of flesh wash, and for guts and similar stuff I add soft wash with black ink. If you want you can highlight some spots with blood red, but I usually skip this part.
2 - edges of bloody areas
Again, use the mix of blood red and flesh wash. Now take your stippling brush(you don't need brand new stippling brush - just check my rust effect tut in my signature for inspiration) and dip it in the mixed colour. Instead of wiping the color from the brush like with drybrush technique, just 'stab' onto paper. You don't need to wipe all colour out of the brush, just do it a few times, so the brush leaves about 70% of it's trace. Now use the same 'stabbing' procedure to apply the paint to the edges. It should look like the blood was splashed from the wound.
3 - blood gaps
One more time prepare your colour mix. Then take any tough brush you have and dip it in the colour. Since english is not my native language, I'm not sure how to describe the process, and because one picture is better than thousand words, here follows one showing how to apply the paint
(I know I don't have colour here, but it should be sufficient for understanding)
The splash you create using this technique looks really well. But be carefull if you don't want the paint all over the place - maybe use smaller or softer brush.
4 - finish
Now if you want the blood look fresh, apply gloss warnish on the blood spots. You don't have to be extra cautius here. If you accidentally apply the varnish where you don't have the blood(you just shouldn't miss too much), it still looks good(another body fluid perhaps). And if you miss some small blood spot, it looks like the blood dried a bit already.
5 - extra touch
If you want to add some really naturalistic touches to your bloody monsters, you can do the following. Take a hair and cut it to appropriate length. Then glue it to claws, hands or bloody parts. It is a bit tricky, but you should be able to do it. Then cover the whole hair in superglue. Wait for it to dry and paint it in simillar way as you painted the blood.
Here comes the pic of the finished result(notice the zombie eating a hand - I used the extra touch part here):
I also used this technique on Necron Flayed ones in WH40k:
Blood and gore technique
Colors: Blood red, Flesh wash, Black ink, Gloss varnish
Brush: Standard brush, Stippling brush (not necessarry), any tough brush (Small drybrush for example)
1 - blood wound/organs/large area of blood
Mix blood red with flesh wash about 50:50. This should create nice looking darker blood and also should be thinner than regular colour. Apply it to the spot. Now washes. It is your call, you can experiment here. I recommend medium wash of flesh wash, and for guts and similar stuff I add soft wash with black ink. If you want you can highlight some spots with blood red, but I usually skip this part.
2 - edges of bloody areas
Again, use the mix of blood red and flesh wash. Now take your stippling brush(you don't need brand new stippling brush - just check my rust effect tut in my signature for inspiration) and dip it in the mixed colour. Instead of wiping the color from the brush like with drybrush technique, just 'stab' onto paper. You don't need to wipe all colour out of the brush, just do it a few times, so the brush leaves about 70% of it's trace. Now use the same 'stabbing' procedure to apply the paint to the edges. It should look like the blood was splashed from the wound.
3 - blood gaps
One more time prepare your colour mix. Then take any tough brush you have and dip it in the colour. Since english is not my native language, I'm not sure how to describe the process, and because one picture is better than thousand words, here follows one showing how to apply the paint
(I know I don't have colour here, but it should be sufficient for understanding)
The splash you create using this technique looks really well. But be carefull if you don't want the paint all over the place - maybe use smaller or softer brush.
4 - finish
Now if you want the blood look fresh, apply gloss warnish on the blood spots. You don't have to be extra cautius here. If you accidentally apply the varnish where you don't have the blood(you just shouldn't miss too much), it still looks good(another body fluid perhaps). And if you miss some small blood spot, it looks like the blood dried a bit already.
5 - extra touch
If you want to add some really naturalistic touches to your bloody monsters, you can do the following. Take a hair and cut it to appropriate length. Then glue it to claws, hands or bloody parts. It is a bit tricky, but you should be able to do it. Then cover the whole hair in superglue. Wait for it to dry and paint it in simillar way as you painted the blood.
Here comes the pic of the finished result(notice the zombie eating a hand - I used the extra touch part here):
I also used this technique on Necron Flayed ones in WH40k:
