How do you illustrate scars in your art styles?

[Leyelle]

If you have characters with scars how do you like drawing them? This isn't a right versus wrong thing but just to see how different people do it.

I have one main character with visible scars RN and that's Mick. I haven't redrawn her in months so my art has improved a lot since this pic. I wonder how.I'd illustrate scare now

[remiquise]

Depends on what kinda art I'm doing, and what kinda scars. How deep, how superficial...
comic, just a block lol; as long as it gets the point across, ya know? I got like 20 drawings to do a week I do not have time for nuance;

outside of the comics, I put more depth into the deeper ones, and actually bother with small superficial ones. This character has a good mix of both; you'll see little very light lines and the darker lines both all over his arms...

comic burn scars? boring red lump. ease of drawing. If it was more important I might put a smidge of effort into it, but here it really isn't. Heck, I forget it half the time. But alas, burn scar;

outside of the comic, again i put more texture and colours into it. Just a hodgepodge of reds and pinks all swirled together.

+ another draw that makes the scar stand out, and just kinda a fun mix of simplistic scars and complex burn scars, just to see what loses priority first when doing simpler drawings.

I also have characters with frost bite scars, lightning strike scars, so on and so forth because Oh boy do I like beating up my Ocs! But I don't inundate ya'll with the sheer amount of ways I find to hurt my poor little guys and gals.

[Leyelle]

Wow the burn scars in the fourth pick look really real

[Ayumi]

It's not really a scar though.

[KevinReijnders]

I draw them in a darker pink color (for lighter skin colors) without outline so the design doesn't get too busy

[ThunderChicken]

I draw them as a lighter colour, as shown in this pic of Evander that I'm currently working on

[AmysGames]

I've mostly only drawn the one type of scar, which I tend to render as just a single pinkish line. Though for this character, I've always made a point of showing that his scarred eye doesn't open as much as his unscarred one. Maybe I could have put a little more detail into this closeup shot, now that I'm looking at it again...

[Lensing]

I haven´t drawn scars since the 80s, I tried it out and I draw them like this,
I think I saw this in some spanish comic back then and didn´t even know
that it represents the stitches

[abigaillmartin]

Roy has a burn scar from a steam cannon

And Eric…

He got tortured.

[Rai_Muffin]

I tend to draw them like chunks have been taken out of them, though wonder if the red colour is a bit much.

It's fun to keep track of the scars the characters accumulate.
Keanu here got stabbed in chapter 11, the big one across his chest and the little ones came from a recent fight in Chapter 14.

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[Oriflamme]

I use a lighter pink colour and then try to give scars texture when shading, like the flesh healed unevenly leaving bumps and crevasse that catch light and shadows.

I'm pretty sure scars made by sword are supposed to be concave not convex but since those are ritualistic scars, that can explain why they look different.

(In case, you were wondering, he got the scars from hanging out with the boys, hitting each other with swords in the face to show everyone how manly they are.)

[Leyelle]

yikes, looks like he hasn't been too successful in a lot of fights

[Rai_Muffin]

Yeah, Keanu's been getting his butt kicked a lot lately. It's been a real blow to his ego.

[VibrantFox]

i remember experimenting on what approach i wanted to take with my fantasy duo years ago in this sketch

and then tried again with this random character for a drawing challenge

for comic pages (or loose sketches) i most prefer something that's not too difficult to render especially if it'll show up on a page often but tbh i might have to play around more to find something i like especially since i'm realizing one oc may be likely to have burn scars from their use of magic but i legit don't know how i wanna show that (like would it resemble burn scars from fire or look more like electrical burns etc)

[Kermittyfrog]

Zig zag and wavy or sometimes I like making fun shapes out of them

His scar on his chest looks like a weird dog

[EncryptedWriting]

Jagged with sharp edges. Typically do a lighter/neutral color in the middle with a pink outline or vice versa depending on how I feel.