Unsure whether these facial injuries look good

[split star]

So i’m drawing one of my OC’s and he has this big scar across the side of his face, and in his original design, it was difficult to determine that the cause of the injury was a shotgun bullet directly to the face from close range (i’ll go into more detail if needed, just ask).
So, when I was re-drawing him I was trying to make the injry look more realistic. I dont know whether I did?
please critique it and tell me if i can change anything to make it generally better.
TLDR: does the injury look well- like an injury?
Redlining encouraged :)

[near lodge]

The injury does look a lot like an injury, you did a great job with that. However the injury you would have if shot in the face with a shotgun point blank would be lying in a tombstone 😂

[gilded pulsar]

this looks more like a burn victim

if you want to go shotgun directly to the face, theres actually a character who is designed specifically off that! maybe you can use him as reference

his name is eugene from preacher. if you search that youll find a lot more reference

but basically, since a shot goes into the face, there would be a clear hole where he got shot, and skin around that