Okay so at some point if you do character design or texturing, you'll need to know how to do scars, there's three methods I know that can be used.
Hand Painting
Using photographs of scars from google
And the method I'm about to show you.
Hand painting can take some time to perfect a scar, other times it just works straight up, so it's not very consistent, and using photographs doesn't guarantee a skin tone match and photos of scars on google are normally taken on a phone and so they can be grainy too.
This method is fast, accurate and easy.
all you need is a photo of a leaf!
I'm using this one for mine, it's got nice contrast and tone:
don't worry about the colour, it'll be desaturated in the first step.
okay, so lets start.
Voila! that's all there is to it!
Basic Render:
any questions, just holler!
Hand Painting
Using photographs of scars from google
And the method I'm about to show you.
Hand painting can take some time to perfect a scar, other times it just works straight up, so it's not very consistent, and using photographs doesn't guarantee a skin tone match and photos of scars on google are normally taken on a phone and so they can be grainy too.
This method is fast, accurate and easy.
all you need is a photo of a leaf!
I'm using this one for mine, it's got nice contrast and tone:
don't worry about the colour, it'll be desaturated in the first step.
okay, so lets start.
- find a leaf on google, preferably one with good veins and little valleys, if you're doing a raised scar, use the underside.
- Open a new image in photoshop and paste it in there, desaturate it, you won't need the colour.
- Open your 'victim,' be it a photo, a painting, or a texture, for this, I'm using a (mostly) hand made texture, I'll show the end result as a 3d render.
- Study your leaf and study your character, decide how big you want the scar, how deep it will be, and its shape.
if you want the scar deep, choose a darkened vein, if you want it shallow, use a less dark vein. - once you've chosen your vein, cut it out, really roughly, using the lasso tool leaving some of the surrounding area
for my texture, I want her to have a small but deep scar on her left cheek, so I've selected this vein:
- Copy it and paste it onto your 'victim's' image as a new layer. Fiddle about with it in transform mode as you need to
- next, set the scar to either Overlay or Soft light, depending on your preference.
add a layer mask to the scar, and with a soft edged brush, carefully remove the hard edges of the layer until it blends with the skin, like so:
Voila! that's all there is to it!
Basic Render:
any questions, just holler!