I often doodle over old magazines I confiscate from people, especially old copies of the RTEGuide. I started doodling with a red pen with this one and started building up some wounds. They're all inconsistent with each other but ignore trying to figure out their cause. The photos aren't the best either. I discovered* a few years back that you can create interesting colour tones by rubbing at the printed ink. By just using your finger or a rubber eraser, you can easily create realistic skin tones and contour by using the ink thats already there. In this case I just used my fingers to blend in some red and blend out the original pigment. I kept going until the ink started going whitish, which gave a look of stretched, distressed and bruised skin.
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What really makes a face look totally fucked up are damaged eyes. With physical trauma an eye will often just have localised bleeding (subconjunctival hemorrhage) where a blood gets trapped under the surface of the sclera (conjunctiva). I put one of these "blood blisters" in each of her eyes here and I think they work quite well.
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Nothing amazing about the knee gash but you can see how well the "whiting" effect created from rubbing the ink works. I dry dabbled some red pen ink over the top to get the impression of ruptured blood vessels.
* This is the image I first distressed with an eraser back in 2004. You can see how well these glowing eyes sit in with the rest of the image, simply by rubbing away at the ink.
5 comments:
The more I read your blog the more strange you become. The Jade dvds, the image rotating and not the Zombie like doodling. When I sat the images I thought at first you had done that on a computer.
Good.
Now go watch Guinea Pig - Flower of Flesh and Blood.
The Shape: Strange eh? Thems fightin' words round these parts.
nitro2k01: Yeah I should, I've been meaning to watch the whole series for a while now.
That's brilliant!
Well, it's pretty good anyway :)
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