- I'm gonna draw in where I think the wound will be.
I'm gonna come back, waiver my hand a little bit.
A little piece of meat (laughs) fall out of the cut.
This is such as simple technique, and easy to do.
And it has such a high value.
As soon as you do the cut,
as soon as you know where the wound is,
you can come in, take your black sponge, burnish.
Take down the edges a little bit.
When I first got into the business,
I would sculpt these wounds that were
so ornate and the skin would be
flipping out and doing all kinds of waves,
and just ridiculous stuff.
It was me trying too hard.
When the skin is offended, and a wound happens,
the body wants to preserve itself
and it's immediately gonna go and start healing itself.
What that means is that the edges of the wound
are gonna start rounding in and healing is gonna begin.
It's only in the very freshest moments of a wound
where you're gonna see things that are flipped
out and edges that are torn out, and what have you.
So, that's why I go ahead, right out at the onset,
and I go ahead and burnish.
(scratching noise)
Let me add another little wound in here.
We'll have a little...
Maybe, this was a...
some kind of Freddy Krueger knives, or something.
Who knows?
Okay, so there we have some wounds.
Go ahead and burnish those.
(scratching noise)
Now, (laughs) you take my favorite tool.
Take the round end,
and this is so simple.
I want you to go around and satellite,
travel in the same direction as the wound goes,
and cut in.
Every once in awhile, just discontinue it.
Pick it up again.
Have a little bit of a tremor in your hand.
Don't make this too mechanical.
Now on the bottom, I'm gonna go ahead
and run parallel to the wound.
And again.
Awesome.
Take the same tool, go back up top.
Here, I am gonna burnish for control.
I need to go ahead and make that level
by going into the trench and pulling out,
away from the wound.
Then, move to the bottom.
Go into the trench that I just created,
and pull out.
Once again, the same.
The same here.
Now, I'm gonna go towards the wound.
Go back down into the trench.
I'll go to the top.
And now, I'm going towards the wound.
As I do this, you're gonna see a subtle,
light shadow form around the wound.
That shadow speaks of swelling.
I was able just to do this in a matter of moments.
What you're seeing there is you're seeing
the skin start to pucker...
in response to being...
ripped open.
This is a minor thing, but it's such a wonderful thing
because now, you have this great storytelling...
going on around the wound.
Then, go to my sponge, burnish in a circle.
What did we really get there?
What we really go is we got this subtle, beautiful shadow.
See that?
Awesome.
I can come back in and I can go to certain areas
where I want a little bit more swelling,
and I can push it in and deepen it.
Here's an opportunity over here.
I'm gonna go ahead, make it a little deeper there.
Over here, I can make it a little deeper.
Burnish that out, as we had done just before.
Same here.
Awesome.
Cool.
Great.
Now, this debris in here, this little island of flesh,
I'm gonna go ahead...
cut that into little subdivisions,
and that's gonna become fat
that is falling out of the wound.
No.
Go in, dig that around.
I'm allowing my tool to really get in there
and cause a deeper shadow,
'cause I want to sell the depth of the wound.
Awesome.
Remember, I mentioned the...
stone skipping across the water?
As I leave the wound, I'm gonna come out,
do a little extra bump, and a bump,
and a bump, and I'm out.
I've decided here is the impact.
So now, here's a really interesting--
Gosh, this takes no effort at all,
but it gives you so much.
I'm gonna take a little piece of clay.
I'm gonna bend it into a little horseshoe,
a little U-shape.
I'm gonna lay that right there, at the end of the wound.
I'm gonna mash it down with my finger.
This is not too dissimilar to the tear duct
that we did on the face just a moment ago.
I'm gonna use the fat pad of my thumb
to go ahead and give that a beautiful, nice, roundness.
And then, I'm gonna go ahead and take another tool,
which would be this,
and I'm gonna marry this into the wound.
Open that up a little bit.
(laughs) So, it's getting grosser.
Grosser and grosser.
So, here was the impact point.
Whatever caused this wound,
this is where it landed.
Boom, chhh, ripped through the skin,
traveled out, bump, bounced, bounced, bounced, and out.
Love it.
And I can open this up a little bit more.
Since that was our initial trauma,
I'm gonna give that a little bit more to do.
Neat.
Then, I'll come back once again,
burnish and round,
and let that take care of some of the things
that my thumb didn't.
Awesome.
I mentioned dressing up your things,
just to make an impression,
even if it's a subliminal impression on your audience,
or whoever your client is.
I can come in with my rubber-tipped tool,
calm down some of those little islands of flesh
down in the wound.
And then, in this case, I could take a little bit of--
No product placement here,
a little bit of Mac Lip Gloss (snickers).
Put that on a brush.
Feed it down into the wound,
and have a little bit of gloss,
which is awesome because you're
speaking of the wetness down in the wound.
Pretty neat.
I'm gonna stop talking for a moment
and I'm just gonna go ahead, in a very quick form,
I'm gonna go back and do the same on the smaller wounds,
just to give you an example.
Now...
I can't do these wounds for you
and not give you an example of stitches,
because this is also how you set up--
or this is also your set up for doing stitches.
Now, the fat, swelling around the wound,
that's very informative.
And we're gonna use that same technique
to push the reality of stitches in the skin.
I'm gonna go ahead, finish this one off for you.
And then, we'll jump right into that.
Once again, burnishing away from the wound at first,
and then...
same up top.
And then, burnishing finally towards the wound,
giving you that same incredible little shadow
that speaks of the skin...
being offended, torn.
Wonderful.
Now, once again, jump out and jump right to my sponge,
'cause I've got enough of what I need there,
and it'll take it the rest of the way.
And as I use that sponge, guys,
look at the shadow jump right out.
Bam!
Awesome.
Now, just 'cause I want to,
I'm gonna tear this up a little bit.
I'm gonna allow myself to have total indulgence here,
and just rip into it.
I've decided that these little guys...
are more vile and more like a ripping the skin.
Okay.