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The Bojerry Guide to Painting Cumshots

Plan and Paint Realistic Cumshots in Your NSFW Art

Creating enticing, realistic cumshots can be quite the challenge. But with a bit of planning and some handy techniques, you can craft rich, gloopy effects that bring your money shots to life. In this tutorial, I’ll share my process for painting semen in NSFW art, guiding you from the initial sketch to the final touches.

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Plan

1) Start with a Clean Drawing: Begin with a crisp, well-defined sketch that captures your character’s essence. Take your time refining the lines, ensuring proportions and details are spot-on. A solid foundation makes the painting process much smoother.

Complete the drawing clean
Complete the drawing clean

2) Sketch a Guide for Your Cumshot: Before diving into painting, create a loose sketch over your clean line art to plan the semen pattern you want to add. This guide helps you visualize the final piece and make intentional choices as you paint. Don’t hesitate to experiment and embrace happy accidents!

Sketch in a guide, be loose, free, and sketchy!
Sketch in a guide, be loose, free, and sketchy!
*Tip: Use references to inspire cool, realistic shapes. They can add visual interest and depth to your piece.*
*Tip: Use references to inspire cool, realistic shapes. They can add visual interest and depth to your piece.*

Paint

3) Fill the Silhouette with Solid White: Start by filling in your character’s entire semen silhouette with a solid white color. This serves as the base for your painting and helps establish the overall form.

Fill the entire shape with solid white
Fill the entire shape with solid white

4) Clip a Layer on Top: Create a new layer above your solid white semen shape and set it to “Clip” mode. This ensures any painting you do on this layer affects only the area inside the white silhouette, keeping your line art clean.

Clip a layer ON TOP of the cum shape
Clip a layer ON TOP of the cum shape

Tip: Softly paint in the color of whatever is behind the cum. Paint more to make it transparent. Leave areas of white to achieve a glowing translucency.

The cum layers on their own look like this:

The cum layers on their own look like this
The cum layers on their own look like this

Why not use a mask and erase out of the cum shape? Personally, I prefer this method to prevent the linework underneath from showing through, avoiding clutter and maintaining that gloopy look.

*But lost edges! I like these*
*But lost edges! I like these*

Polish

5) Add Specular Highlights: Once you’ve established the base colors and shading, it’s time to add some polish. Refer to your references to place these specular highlights strategically, considering the lighting direction and your character’s pose.

Make it shiny
Make it shiny

6) Add Subtle Cast and Occlusion Shadows: To make your painting feel cohesive and grounded, add subtle cast shadows and occlusion shadows where the semen meets the character’s skin. This helps the fluid feel like it’s truly resting on the surface, rather than floating above it.

Add subtle shadows
Add subtle shadows

Tip: Use a soft brush with low opacity to gently build up these shadows, paying attention to the forms and how the light interacts with them.

And DONE!

With practice and by following these steps, you’ll be able to create beautifully painted pieces that bring your characters to life. Don’t be discouraged if it feels challenging at first—every painting is an opportunity to learn and improve. Happy painting!

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