#mal draws

i just dislocated my left shoulder, and i'm currently walking around the house like a shrimp with my arm in a sling. so i drew this with my right hand, which somehow worked out ok? it probably helped that i can cut paper with my non dominant hand because there were never any left-handed scissors when i was a kid. for some reason i still cut my own hair with my right hand even though i do own left handed scissors lol

Drawing time: 3h

i figured out pretty recently that it's much easier for me to draw on black. this would have taken way more time on a white background bc then i always hyperfocus on rendering every single detail

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forgive me for shamelessly stalking your blog/music recs for the song in the timelapse lol

scars are so hard to draw ugh! i also had to google different types. one type is atrophic (sunken below the skin, like many acne scars), but i settled for a mix of hypertrophic (raised but confined to the original wound) and keloid scars (where the scar tissue grows beyond the edges of the injury)

i imagine remus causing pretty deep wounds with his claws, and that many of them would have healed under less-than-ideal circumstances. i pictured most of the scarring to be concentrated across his back, wrapping around his ribs and then some on his arms and face

i could have added even more, but i was worried about overdoing it? at one point i considered giving him a big horizontal one across his abdomen, but then i started thinking about what kind of injury would leave that behind... and (sorry this is graphic!) the mental image of remus tearing himself open badly enough for his intestines to be exposed made me feel so awful that i abandoned the idea

song reference for the time-lapse: