Busted Knuckles

   For Claudia, due to the nature of her character I wanted her to have busted knuckles to show distress and her violence when she has her emotional outbursts so I thought I'd try and see if I could create this effect. Looking at my final outcome, I'm rather happy with the result considering it was my first trial, however I also see rooms for improvement. I felt I could of trimmed/ripped the skin more around the knuckles as when my fingers are stretched out the 'skin' just looks like theres too much than what should be around the knuckle, and also when colouring under the 'skin' I felt I went a bit too dark for what I was looking to have.

Method:

1. I started by painting the knuckle area in different tones of red until I was happy with the intensity
2. apply tin layers of liquid latex around the wound and build up latex closer to the wound
3. wait for latex to dry but continue to move your fingers to help the latex move a lot better when you pick it up and helps you move your fingers better
4. powder latex to take away the shine
5. carefully pick the edges of the latex up to create the broken skin effect, whilst ripping edges to make it look more realistic
6. colour slightly under the latex and consider going a few shades darker to show dried blood
7. finally add some vaseline to the centre and if you desired so, some fake blood