Tuesday 31 March 2015

Researching Real Acid Burns

I wanted to look at some real acid burns so that the burn I give Quentin is as realistic looking as possible. Human skin does not react to silver like the vampires' in True Blood so I didn't find any images where skin has burned when touching metal. However I did find some images of when acid had been thrown over skin and the results shocked me. 

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/slideshow?id=9477095&imageid=9485656
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1351435/Acid-attack-
victim-Katie-Piper-attacked-going-boy-met-Facebook.html
The photos on top show the results, after 43 days, of sulfuric acid being thrown at Katie Piper. Her ex boyfriend got a stranger to attack her outside a cafe in London where he threw sulphuric acid into her face. Katie was rushed to hospital but she was left disfigured. The acid destroyed the skin on her face, neck and hands, she was missing an ear and parts of her nose; it also left her blind in one eye. The second image shows what her skin looked like closer to the date of when the incident took place and her skin is a very rich, bright red colour. It looks very raw and the surface of the skin looks very uneven, but smooth and almost shiny looking. I want to imitate aspects of this burn in Quentin's burn with the colouring and texture as this burn looks still very recent.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291706/Grandmother-left-h
orrific-facial-burns-household-drain-cleaner-explodes-face.html
Above shows the after math of a chemical burn. The woman put some house hold drain cleaner down her sink and then it exploded back up into her face causing second-degree burns. She reacted very quickly, keeping her eyes shut and she washed her face all the way to the hospital where she was taken to the specialist burns unit to be treated. This burn has many colours to it, with deep red, bright red, black, brown and yellow. The burn looks very uneven in texture as some parts look to have scabbed over and some parts look very shiny. I don't think that Quentin's burns would have had time to scab over because the silver is still 'burning' his skin whilst the image is being taken so it would be very raw; however I will include the same colouring in his burn. 

Resources:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291706/Grandmother-left-horrific-facial-burns-household-drain-cleaner-explodes-face.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1351435/Acid-attack-victim-Katie-Piper-attacked-going-boy-met-Facebook.html
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/slideshow?id=9477095&imageid=9476966

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