You need reference material! You can’t go doing representative art without knowing what it is you’re representing.
And sure, Vince could have shot, say, a posterboard. But posterboard splatters aren’t going to give you the texture and the rebound droplets of the specific kind of fabric on a body, you know?
It’s really all about authenticity.
POW!
Both nipples!
POW! RIGHT IN THE K… NIPPLES!
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Squirt gun him while the dude is lying down. Put a face mask on the customer, lay them down on the ground, use a stepladder and blip blorp blop blip bloop.
Don’t smear! He’ll have to shoot you again!
He is an artiste!