How To: Draw Realistic Blood With Prisma Colors

What you’ll need:

• 1 sheet of paper
• Prisma Colors: Light Pink (328), Peach (339), Crimson Lake (325), and Carmine Red (326)
• 1 pencil
• 1 eraser

STEPS:

1. Start by using a pencil to very lightly draw any shape of a blood stain on your sheet of paper.
2. Next, trace over the outline with the Light Pink (328) prisma color pencil. Make sure to not press down too hard. This is only an outline.
3. Shade the blood stain very carefully and very lightly with the Light Pink (328) prisma color pencil.
4. Take the Peach (339) prisma color pencil and lightly shade over the Light Prink (328) color pencil. Make sure to shade it in completely, but make sure to still be able to see the Light Pink under the Peach.
5. Now comes the fun part. Grab your Carmine Red (326) prisma color pencil. Shade in the blood stain and make sure to color in a gradient way (darker shading on top and lighter shading on the bottom).
6. Now take both the Peach (339) and Light Pink (328) color pencils again. This is for blending. Alternate between the two colors as you once again shade over the blood stain until all of the colors are very blended together.
7. This is the most crucial part because this is the part where you will make the blood look realistic. Pick up your Crimson Lake (325) prisma color pencil.
8. Lightly shade over the blood stain. I highly recommend that you start from the top of the blood stain and color downwards to give it a 3D effect. Make sure to color in a gradient way (darker shading on top and lighter shading on the bottom).
9. Next, pick up your Carmine Red (326) prisma color pencil again and shade until all the colors are blended evenly.
10. Then, draw blood splatters around your blood stain to make it look even more realistic. use the above steps to draw those blood stains (realistic looking blood stains are hard to draw tho. Make sure to draw a dot and then a line going downwards to make it look like it’s slowly rolling down).
11. The last step involves the Peach (339) and the Carmine Red (326) prisma color pencils. Lightly shade around your blood stains and blood splatters with the Peach (339) prisma color pencil and then use the gradient technique to shade over it with the Carmine Red (326) color pencil. This will make the blood pop up more and seem like it’s sinking into the paper.

VIOLA! YOU HAVE YOURSELF A REALISTIC LOOKING BLOOD SPLATTER!

Examples below: (all credit goes to Jordan Persegati)