Amateur artist, likes horror themed stuff (mainly creepypastas), español.
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Posted by HollowRabbits - 12 days ago
i've only made a news post once, i should use this feature more often-
anyhow, i've been meaning to ask if anyone has any good tips on how to get good at drawing body horror since i'm quite a nooby at it, but i also wanna incorporate it into some of my future projects.
any advice, no matter how small, would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
The way I do body horror is trying to take a characters characteristic/s, and distort and exaggerate it as much as I can. One of the main points of body horror to me is to test the limits of the body to an uncomfortable degree. Body horror can also be used to disturb the reader/viewer, you could make it very gross and/or uncomfortable, it just depends on what you're going for. I'd advise you use horror manga artists like Junji Ito's work as reference. Try to avoid making it look dumb or goofy, it doesn't have to be extremely detailed, but it would heavily add to the gross factor.
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Look at animals.
My one advice is : make yourself genuinely uncomfortable and play on what bothers you personally.
I dabble in horror writing more than drawing, but usually, my stories are only as good as they are unnerving and dreadful. The key to it all for me personally is the same advice i just gave you; make yourself uncomfortable.
Edit : to provide an example, let's say you have a weird fear of skin infections. A good way to make this a lot worse is to do something like making the infection a living breathing organism trying to give itself life by eating its host by infecting them further.
The idea is that you're already uncomfortable by infections, an infection coming to life to essentially kick you out of your own body while you rot should be a nightmare
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A lot of the philosophy behind body horror revolves around how much you can distort the human body without making it look goofy or forced.
There are many ways to achieve this, I recommend to look at body horror media for better examples AND inspiration, this really helps a lot.
Also, body horror can overlap with gore, though this doesn't always happen, you can have little to no blood and still give off that "getting under your skin" feeling.
Another advice is to combine wild things, don't limit yourself, you don't have to only put eyes everywhere or a mouth where it's not supposed to, you can add things like octopus tentacles, spider legs, some other thing that I don't know how to describe, go crazy.
Here's an exmaple of mine: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1531667#bbspost27826779_post_text
It helps to start with an already functional, not corrupted subject and start to distort it and destroy it to get a better grasp of what you're going for.
I'd say that's about it