cuts and scars.

Many people self harm for many reasons. However Miss Havisham may self harm to distract her from her emotional pain. You also have to be in a certain state of mind. Miss Havisham would of been in a bad state of mind. The most common places to self harm are your wrists, and legs. She may of cut herself with glass or a broken mirror or maybe she scratched, or would burn herself. My Miss Havisham being a alcoholic may of not been able to feel physical pain. As we all know when you are intoxicated your sense are not as quick or sensitive in comparison to when you're sober.

Considering my character is going to be an alcoholic I found out that many alcoholics have suicidal thoughts. So she cuts herself as she is dealing with overwhelming emotions and if she harms herself it makes her feel better. I wanted to experiment to see what looked more realistic.

In order to get the most realistic looking scratch or burn I analyzed images of being harmed.

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Here is an image of a 2nd degree burn. the second degree burn is when the heat is soo hot it melts the top layer of skin. Making the layer of skin underneath very sore and red. This is not a fresh second degree burn as it i not red enough.(www.NHS.co.uk).

 Here is a fresh sort of looking second degree burn. I created this using multiple layer of latex. Using grease paint to fill in the peeled skin. I used a bruise wheel to create the redness around the burns.

Here is another burn I created this time using some Duo lash glue and again grease paints. I made the dermis much darker. As in the Victorian era they were not as hygienic as us. Dirt and dust would get into wounds causing diseases. I wanted the bun to look a bit grubby. This scar to me looks as though you could of out a candle on your arm as the formation is not neat. I am experimenting on the wrist as this is a common place people self harm as it is easy to hard, and easy to get to.

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These are cuts from a self harmer. As you can see the marks are not in any particular transformation. None are the same size. They are all still quite red. These cuts do not look too deep either.

Here is a cut I created using cinewax and some grease paint. I really like this as I feel it looks realistic. It was simple to make and only took two minutes.I created it with the intention that it would look like it has been done with a sharp edge. Like a glass as she does drink a lot. She gets angry when she remembers what has happened to her. She throws her glass out of anger, and cuts herself to try and forget about her emotional pain.

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I wanted to look at burn scars. To implicate that she had been burnt. I noticed they are raised, a little red in colour and have a shine to them.

Here I tried to create a burn scar. However I am not sure if it looks realistic enough it looks a little too fake and I do not think I will be developing my design with a burn scar on it.