How to Draw Blood Splatter in Manga

Doing my second art tips blog! This is my way of drawing blood so you don't have to follow it if it doesn't suit you. You can inspire from it tho^^. I'll try best best to be clear! Blood effect been the second most wanted art tips so here we go!

Warning: There's a LOT of text rip

Ok already, it's important to know how is the blood splattered. Is it dripping like tears? Is it splattered because a human exploded? Also it's important to know that human doesn't have a TON of blood and some part of the body bleed more blood than other parts.

We'll go for the splatter since its DanganRonpa here >:D

Splatter Effects

Ok let's go with an example of someone getting stab in the stomach. If you want to draw the exact moment of when the person is getting stab, how much blood is spattered will depends on where is that person stabbed and the speed of the weapon. I'm actually no expert in which organ is where but I'm pretty sure the stomach area is like the part where you bleed the most severally.

1. The tip of the weapon is the first part of it that touch and goes through the body so the tip is full of blood. Despite that the blade goes through the body, there are so parts that doesn't really get stained with blood.

Okay let's first make this clear: I have never killed anyone so I'm using logic and deduction on how the blood will splatter. There are parts where it doesn't get stain might be either because the blade pierced through the body really quickly so the tip and the part of the blade inside the body would be stain in blood so Between these two parts, there might be no blood or it's because the blood at the tip created a parachute effect.

2. Blood is basically water or any liquid and its composed of thousands of molecules. If something is splattered, you will notice that there will be many tiny drops of the liquid here and there.

Dripping Effects

For dripping effects, let's go with the example of eye crying blood lel

A liquid dripping is because the bottom of the dripping trail is heavier and the gravity.

Crying blood is same with crying normal tears. The source of the tears is the eye so the dripping start from there. One drop is heavier so it's going to drop across the face. IMPORTANT: The face have like a round shape and not flat so depending on the angle you're seeing it, the trail will not be a straight line

A good way of knowing how does dripping work is the rain. When you look at your window, the rain would do a dripping effect on it.

If you're drawing dripping effect from weapons, then there would only be dripping after the moment that you pulled out the weapon from the body. There will be dripping and splatter effect.

Dripping will depends on how much blood got onto the weapon.

1. In the case of the art knife I drew, that stabbing would be close range and blood will be on the handle, on the hand and on the clothes of the killer because of the splatter effect. (There is suppose to be more blood on the hand and handle but sorry, got a bit lazy). If it were to be a long sword, also depending on the distance between the victim and the killer, there would be a little bit of blood or none on the killer since the distance is greater. When the drop touches the floor, it would form a-not-perfect circle and would eventually form a small pond.

Spray Effect

Example of spray effect could be coughing blood.

Human coughs blood when they either ingest poison or there's a fatal wound inside the body. If it's poison, human would cough a bit of blood and it drops. If it's like getting stabbed on the stomach (not on the arm or legs), they will most likely cough more blood than ingesting poison (good example is during Sakura's death)

Other Situations

In this scenario, Komaeda is getting cut by a sword. The speed of the weapon is really quick which is why there are really long trail of blood. It's following the weapon.

In this scenario, that person either got his stomach exploded or killed someone because we can see the blood is situated "innerly". The extremity of the arm is kinda clean.

In this scenario, the person got impaled. The tip and the part inside the person are close so there isn't really any place where it's not stained. Then there's the blood splatter when the spear went through the body.

If blood got on a piece of cloth, the shape of it will differs. If you use a cloth to wipe blood off, the blood will have a smudge effect on the cloth. If it's piece of cloth under somewhere and blood gets on it, it's going to be a drip.

That's all for the tips for the blood effect^^ I hope this helped to some people. Just saying, I may be wrong in some deduction with blood effect. If I forget anything, I will add it here! If you still have trouble with blood effect, feel free to ask questions and I will try to help you :D

Observation is key for this because when someone accidentally spill milk or water, pay close attention to how it's spill because that's splatter effect.

You could PM me if you really can't get the gist of it.

Practice or read gore manga to start understanding how blood effect work!

Thank you for reading this and check my other art tips for hands!

http://aminoapps.com/p/lb1h3r

*THIS TOOK SO LONG TO TYPE I'm tired now lol*

Next art tip will be on body proportion.

How to Draw Blood Splatter in Manga

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