Hound Bust with Scars

Drawing those scars was a BITCH; because the way scars are normally drawn in animes is the "sexy" method. Usually all a "scar" is is just a discolored slash (oooh, so traumatizing). While I like "sexy" scars on female characters, I didn't what that; I wanted a girl that genuinely thinks she's hideous to HAVE a hideous mutilation on her face; and not "sort of" on her face---not a slice on her cheek or one over the eye---no: the whole right half of her face is over! This bitch got half her face raked off by a giant wolfhound and it shows. When you look at the damage, you can see WHY she goes berserk and massacres that dog in the first episode. 

(tiny note: In the series, she pathologically uses her hair to cover up the scars, but this is a bust of the character, which, you know, doesn't have to conform to their anxieties, so, yeah: I kept them in.) For anyone wondering, I happen to have a two inch (three inch?) long scar on my forearm, which is what I used for easy reference.

A personal tip for anyone drawing even a semi-realistic scar: When you look at a REAL scar it's definitely not just one off-color line on your body. It's fibrous with visible "stitches" of skin, some light, some dark. It's off-color, yes, and, at a distance, it looks like one uniform tint, but that impression is just an aggregation of the blending shades of pink. One last thing to remember: scars, when done properly, RISE; they don't fall.