I accidentally missed February's challenge picture so I guess I'm doing two this month. Theme #2 is "Tear," as in tearing - in this case, Aiko's heart. The viewers sure are hard to please sometimes!
This time I tried seeing how well I could do with a fully grayscale picture and no conversion tricks. I found that even with a very light gray starting color it was easy for the blood effects to quickly get very dark.
I also experimented with coloring in Aiko's hair to reflect that it is not, in fact, white xD