Creating Bruises

Creating a bruised eye in relation to the character Estella. There is a part in the tale of great expectations where there is referrals to Estella's husband beating her and she has some small bruises upon her body. Looking at this part in the book I wanted to experiment with the idea of placing bruises on my character. By practising and seeing how the bruises looked was a good experiment. to see if i wanted to include these as a final design at the end. The bruise I created I tried to keep quite neutral I didn’t want to create an over the top bruise, by doing this I kept the colours slightly lighter and blended them in thoroughly. I started off by applying a red tone from a Charles fox bruise weal under the eye and on top of the eye using my finger to do all of this for better blending. I then added shades of black and purple to give the bruise different tones to give it a newish bruise feel. After applying this I started applying yellow and green colours around the edge of the eye in the place where the bruise would usually heal a lot quicker and not be so dark showing the different tones and healing stages a bruise has. I think the bruise turned out quite effective and I was pleased with the result and will be practising creating more bruises on other places on the body such as the arms and chest.