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13381617 No.13381617 [Reply] [Original]

How do I write people?
I have trouble whenever I try to describe their faces

>> No.13381626

>>13381617
Don't describe there faces lol. Leave it up to the reader.

>> No.13381672

Use confusing similes

>Dude had a face like two ferrets mating

>> No.13381686

>>13381617

>>13381626
this. stick to important merkmale and let the reader fill in the rest.

>> No.13381705

>>13381617
"an old lad sporting a beautiful, but shy, smile. His head wide as a truck, with black glossy eyes and eyebrows reminiscent of cigarette's ash. Puffy hair strokes accompany his bald top"

>> No.13381708

>>13381672
those are the best kind.
if you're good, you can make em insane and still have em make sense.
he had teeth like a collapsing house, and an entire construction crew standing out front in distress

>> No.13381718

>>13381705
bleh

>> No.13381877

>>13381626
Kinda this.
Throw in a feeling you get when meet a person. A default encounter.

Dont deacribe every, little, feature of the face. But write the most noticeable one.

"A stern man with sparce eyebrows hanging over his bored eyes"

Then you can play with that description when he reacts to the world.

Idk

>> No.13381885

His face was all fucked up, like a nigger with AIDS. He was so ugly you could see he really wasn't considered beautiful by any stretch of the imagination. He had dark eyes and dark chins, his teeth were dark and wide-set. His tongue was dark and droopy, his eyes were scoopy poopy.

>> No.13382011

>>13381617
Only describe one feature per character, and have it be a different feature that accentuates their personality. Don't be a Dickens and fill pages with adjectives describing one basic fucking thing like Uncle Pumblechook's pants.

>> No.13382023

>>13381708
He had jowls like a diseased echidna crossing the road.

>> No.13382061

>>13382023
His eyes were two dead porcupine floating in a polluted pond.

>> No.13382077

>>13381885
now that's literature

>> No.13382128

>>13382023
Overwrought.
He had jowls like a roadkill raccoon in the middle of a country road

>>13382061
evokes no imagery.
His eyes were two clumps of pondscum just below polluted water

>> No.13382135

>>13382061
His ankles poked out from under his short trousers, showing the world the horrors of thick, black leg hair on terrifyingly pale skin.

>> No.13382198

>>13382128
Overwrought.
He had jowls like a diseased echidna crossing the road.

>>13382128
evokes no imagery.
His eyes were two dead porcupine floating in a polluted pond.

>> No.13382247

>>13382198
nyeh nyeh nyeh

>> No.13382251

>>13381617
His bulbous, balding head produced two beady eyes and a shit-eating grin.

>> No.13382296

>>13381617
only describe their appearance if it matters