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Nestly: So I got inspired to do this one night from this anime I watch called Blood+. A character named Hagi has this cool monstrous looking hand. Of course my hands are short and my fingers are stubby so this isn't really a fanart or anything.

I just thought it would be fun to try another photo-manipulation, but this was a TON harder then "The Reason Behind Art Block"
I had a lot of fun experimenting with this though.

Nestly's Camera Adventuare Story: I had to take the picture myself since no one else was around, and that was NOT easy, considering I had to keep taping my camera to a cabinet, set the timer, run water under the sink and pose it below the camera before the timer went off and the water ran all out of my hands. Holy crap.
So then there was the blood effect, which was another long journey. I searched the web for hours trying to find a good 'blood drops in water' reference, but I didn't find anything good enough, so I spent $4 on red food coloring and took like a bajillion pictures of that dropping into a bowl of water. ...Now all of my fingertips are stained red... xD
The blood still doesn't look entirely real because the food coloring reacted differently then blood would. It just went FWOOO as soon as it touched the water and was nearly impossible to snap a shot in time with my slow shutter camera. But this was the best I could get it from the photos I took. I'm happy with it. :3

So I hope you enjoy the concept and overall piece. ^^
Feel free to point out anything you think I could patch up. :3 Just explain how you think I could fix it.

Here's the original photo before I manipulated it: [link]

Camera: Nikon 6.0 digital camera
Edited on: Sai

Description
Nestly: So I got inspired to do this one night from this anime I watch called Blood+. A character named Hagi has this cool monstrous looking hand. Of course my hands are short and my fingers are stubby so this isn't really a fanart or anything.

I just thought it would be fun to try another photo-manipulation, but this was a TON harder then "The Reason Behind Art Block"
I had a lot of fun experimenting with this though.

Nestly's Camera Adventuare Story: I had to take the picture myself since no one else was around, and that was NOT easy, considering I had to keep taping my camera to a cabinet, set the timer, run water under the sink and pose it below the camera before the timer went off and the water ran all out of my hands. Holy crap.
So then there was the blood effect, which was another long journey. I searched the web for hours trying to find a good 'blood drops in water' reference, but I didn't find anything good enough, so I spent $4 on red food coloring and took like a bajillion pictures of that dropping into a bowl of water. ...Now all of my fingertips are stained red... xD
The blood still doesn't look entirely real because the food coloring reacted differently then blood would. It just went FWOOO as soon as it touched the water and was nearly impossible to snap a shot in time with my slow shutter camera. But this was the best I could get it from the photos I took. I'm happy with it. :3

So I hope you enjoy the concept and overall piece. ^^
Feel free to point out anything you think I could patch up. :3 Just explain how you think I could fix it.

Here's the original photo before I manipulated it: [link]

Camera: Nikon 6.0 digital camera
Edited on: Sai