A personal of sorts

Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.

DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters, rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).

Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.

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Edit: How are people seeing this post where I specifically talk about burn survivors being normal, real people, and still tag this as "TW body horror"? Not a single one of these drawings or pictures is a fresh injury. All of them are healed. How the hell would you feel if someone tagged a photo of you as "trigger warning: gore"?

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I am relieved that I'd left my room tidy

- a habit of having a plastic bag of plastic bags

- some variation of Pancake

fried dough of some sort

alcohol; doesn’t matter what they got they’re gonna ferment it

mostly use spears in a fight but go to great lengths to make swords ‘cause they’re cooler

play games about throwing things

pack-bond with random predators

Telling stories about the stars

Baskets

Making little dudes outta clay

Carving rocks into cooler rocks