#light at the lowest point of the flesh so i just used a red pencil and touched it up. i dont think it did a ton lol but worth mentioning

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How I'm doing the busted knuckles on my doll!

This tutorial is MOSTLY so i can remember how to do it for future dolls but figured I would post it!

First, I lay down a couple colours of pastel. The first color is a sort of warm purple color and the second is a brighter teal.

This gets the resin to look irritated! I use a eyeshadow brush that's pretty flat and thin to really pack the color on there. I use a lot more purple and add the blue when I'm closer to the color I want!!

^ i had accidentally sealed in some green from a different part of the hand I was blushing so the pinky looks kinda gnarly here! The sealant I use wiped off some of the pastel so for the next one I did, I made sure to use a big brush to remove the excess powders before sealing lol. You can kinda see how I have some areas more concentrated than others but I was also considering how certain injuries would look in terms of what I was referencing (ie making the entire side of the hand bruised vs just the injury spot)

Then I use a few watercolor paints to achieve the main shape of the wound. First, a warmish light purple in a very rough circle shape, it does NOT have to be perfect at all. Then a medium shade blue, going over the purple when it's still wet, leaving just a small circle of purple to outline the shape. I let them kind of mix together on the resin as I paint it on! Then i go in with a slightly more blood red, adding that over the blue and covering nearly all of it, mixing the two colors together. When I'm nearly done, I add a basic red color on top and mix just a bit, keeping the fine purple and blue lines there on the outside of the wound.

^ colors labeled by how I explained them above

I let that dry a bit, then get a bit of Elmer's glue (I use glue-all but you can really just use the normal school glue stuff, this is just what I had on hand) and a toothpick. I use the toothpick to create an edge around the wound, letting it get blending into the resin that isn't part of the wound but keeping the wound itself having a semi harsh circle around it.

^ you can see the glue here, I also mixed up glue with a small amount of both my usual red pastel I use for blushing (which is about the same color of color #3 of the watercolors) and the purple color I used for the bruises and applied it to the center of the wound. I personally chose to leave a small area of it unglued (or less glued) to give it a fresher wound appearance.

^ this is with the glue dried after two coats of glue! I do the second coat after the first is fully dry and just go around the outside edges with more of the uncolored glue. It adds more of a raised appearance to it :)