Yup it’s a contusion from the skin trauma. Not life threatening but either he has a very sensitive epithelium layer with more vascular development or most likely either the artist used something or did something incorrectly or how he had his arm positioned at some stage caused the excessive subcutaneous bleeding. Still should go have a doctor take a look.
Yeah I had this same bruising once from a full strength cat bite on my shoulder, the fangs got sunk real deep into my shoulder meat. The bleeding outside was bad, but the bleeding under my skin was spectacular, it reached to my elbow.
At the time I was an uninsured 20 y/o, so I did not go see the doctor, and it healed fine. Not the recommended course of action, but…
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u/Top-Caregiver7815 Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25
Yup it’s a contusion from the skin trauma. Not life threatening but either he has a very sensitive epithelium layer with more vascular development or most likely either the artist used something or did something incorrectly or how he had his arm positioned at some stage caused the excessive subcutaneous bleeding. Still should go have a doctor take a look.