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i love shakespeare academics. i fucking love them. there’s this one guy who wrote an essay about how claudius is actually possibly innocent, or at least didn’t kill the king by putting poison in his ear, and the ghost was in part a hallucination (it’s a really interesting essay with many good points and i’m using it in my final synthesis for this class) but. BUT. some guy read it on a train. and he lost it.

this guy literally said this essay drove him to “insanity”. he went off the fucking rails about it so much so that he wrote a book over the course of EIGHTEEN YEARS about what ACTUALLY happened in hamlet and dedicated it to the guy who wrote the essay as a big “fuck you”. and that exchange between them is literally inescapable when reading about the play today. here’s an excerpt from the beginning:

this is like. the equivalent of someone making a well-thought out discourse post and then out of nowehere someone reblogging it with thousands of words of pure furious rambling about why op is wrong YEARS LATER. this bullshit started a hundred years ago, literally in the middle of the first world fucking war, and i STILL cannot escape it while reading a book on hamlet published in fucking 2000 because it’s so iconic. and i love it.

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oh you need a tutorial on splatters by a non-expert? then this is for you!

I have a little bit of experience with splatters both from painting a lot and from nosebleed-related health issues. So I know a little bit more about splatters than the average person.

anyways

if you’re not sure how a splatter will… well splatter then I recommend flicking paint from a brush onto paper. But not everyone can do that for various reasons. So I used both acrylic paint and watercolors for this.

I call these “side splatters”. So, the more liquid-y the splatter is the further the “tail” goes (as shown in the image). As you can notice, the splatters with acrylic paint stick together more because it’s less of a water-texture and more of a blob.

drops

basically, the middle (the “mother splat” in the image) has the most liquid in it. And it trails off into smaller drops, which have “arms” lead to them. It’s pretty common that drops and side splatters can be combined, so the mini-drops can have tails similar to side splatters.

warning: talking about bl00d in the rest

Now, specific red bodily liquids can have different textures. Nosebleeds are often more liquid-y than for example gore-related liquids (judging from gore that I’ve seen in movies). And the solution here is to google it! Because I’m not a doctor and I don’t know why the texture can change. But please, even if nosebleeds are more liquid-y the flow can still be slow. Liquid-y splatters are more sensitive to movement than other splatters. So if someone who is having a nosebleed (without anything stopping the flow) for example nods, the “liquid” will run down faster.

there are a lot of different types of splatters, but these are ones that even I struggle with sometimes. There are probably better tutorials out there.

hope this helps!

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