Have you ever wanted to simulate a scalpel carving in the skin for Halloween or a shot for a film? This is a DIY flesh carving that you can create wherever and whatever shape desired. The materials are simple and cost effective and SAFE.
Materials:
- Grease paint
(red, blue, white, flesh tone 
)- Blood Paste
or thick fake blood (we posted fake blood recipes on our blog)- Detail brushes (small brush more detail)
- Wide flat brush (blending)
- Makeup Sponges
- Makeup remover
(for mistakes, and or clean up)HOW TO:
Mix red paint and fake blood proportion ratios 1:1
Take small detail brush and draw basic shape using straight lines.
Note: if you taper lines, it will come across more like a razor blade had cut the skin..
Make sure you use blunt cuts so it’s not blended or smooth. This helps it appear like a cut. Next: mix the white and flesh tone paint to recreate a flesh tone one shade lighter then subjects. It will be so it looks as if when you scratch your skin it looks a bit lighter…Apply the lighter flesh tone with the wider flat tipped brush using light longer strokes… in areas where you want the skin to look like it was lightly scratched (a scratch will have different depths. The deeper the scratch the darker the color….we are using a few shades to create the illusion of depth on a flat surface), and make sure it is on the outside of the carving. Not inside, unless you’re doing something specific that would need an inside skin scratch... A recommendation is near corners where two detail red lines meet... or at the end of the red detail lines on outside edge.
Next Take the blue paint and add just a very little drop to red / fake blood combo to darken it….After it is mixed you will take a sponge and add a very little by dabbing the sponge around cuts where you wish to show more depth for the wound…..preferably at the corners where the knife or tool would have started and stopped….This will give it the illusion for a tad more depth..(NOTE: just a lil blue is needed. The blue should fade into a darker red color..you don’t want to see BLUE..but the darker red tone )
Now, to give the carving the extra varying depth….use the detail brush and apply just the blood to it..you will want to apply varying amounts of blood paste or fake blood along the carving lines..the areas you apply the blood will have more depth ..
And as always be creative..you may figure out a better way by trying these techniques~! BTW: Ben Nye is a very Professional brand, it is the brand we try to use and it has been a standard in the industry for years..it is not the only brand out there and it is in the medium price range but its a excellent product and gives excellent results. You can purchase brushes anywhere but be careful about to inexpensively made ones the hairs on the brush fall off into the paint applied on your subject and its very very very difficult & annoying to remove without affecting your applied wounds. Grease Paint is thick and it pulls on the brush more then other types of paint.
Final sealer
: apply this on top when you are finished. This will set your work and keep it from running and melting off during your shoot.*** DON’T FORGET, LESS IS MORE, YOU CAN ALWAYS ADD MORE ITS HARDER TO REMOVE IT AND REDO IT ****
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