Writing about faces.

[Joseph Chamberlain No.3836571]

I am trying to describe the face of the person in this picture to someone whom has never seen it. Are there any good writers on /lit/ who could give it a shot?

[Anonymous No.3836574]

It's the broad, ruddy, vacant face of a young brewer.

>would include as a minor character in a lesser Thomas Hardy novel

[Anonymous No.3836585]

Hair parted down the left side of the head. Nose more circular than anything else, buttressed by arching nostrils. Eyes so expansive it looks as though they were painted on. Walled-in cave of a forehead, pink-to-red as if recently kissed by the sun. Sitting just above the eyes, lines of arched murk that, with his sideburns, try to box in his otherwise very curvaceous face. Little to no definition in the chin, which comes down in a pendulum's swoop. Thin lips, but wide--neither sandwiched in by the unremarkable cheeks nor allowed any plumpness by the oppressors, chin and philtrum.

[Anonymous No.3836590]

>>3836571
fugly

[Anonymous No.3836592]

>>3836574

I like you.

[Anonymous No.3836601]

>>3836571
A red bulbous head, nose and chin. No sharpness save for the edges of his mouth . Eyebrows sit heavily over blue wet eyes under a conventional parted hairstyle not much unlike a comic book boy.

[Anonymous No.3836613]

The young man did his best to make himself as attractive as possible - trimming his eyebrows, spending thirty pounds on a shirt from Hollister and scouring fashion magazines trying to find the perfect haircut for his face shape. But these changes never seemed to dim or lessen his flaws in his mind. His nose remained as large and bulbous as it always was, his attempts at tanning just left his skin red and burned. But it was his eyes, his eyes that rested uncomfortably between blue and grey, never quite having the sparkle of one or the wisdom of the other - a dull, grey rock floating on a milky lake.

[Anonymous No.3836618]

>>3836585
>Hair parted down the left side, his nose circular and buttressed by arching nostrils. Expansive eyes as though they were painted on. A wall of a forehead, pink-red as if recently kissed by the sun. Proud above the eyes were lines of arched murk that, with his sideburns, box in his otherwise lumpy face. A nub of a chin, and above them, thin, wide lips, like they were stroked onto his face by a careless child-- his cheeks neither sandwiched in nor allowed any plumpness by the oppressors, chin and philtrum.

Okay, this is probably no better but I hated the rhythm

[Anonymous No.3836620]

The face was replaced with a forehead. The creature was called Mr Forehead and all of the townsfolk feared him.

[Anonymous No.3836628]

Shrek's face transplant didn't go as expected.

[Anonymous No.3836638]

>>3836613
Actual character in this one, I get an actual image not just a list of features. Well done.

[Anonymous No.3836642]

>>3836638

Thanks, mostly because I suck at writing plain description I need to match it to character or action otherwise it just comes across awfully when I try.

I think it starts off sloppy but I liked the end of it.

[Anonymous No.3836667]

>>3836638
Did you ask for character? FUCK YOU!

[Anonymous No.3836671]

>>3836667

No, but the character should come through in the description. Half of these are just lists of features like they're describing some identikit monster.

[Joseph Chamberlain No.3836672]

>>3836638
.... You are not the OP, I am.

[Joseph Chamberlain No.3836677]

Another pic from the side. (The face is not normally red, it's just the lighting)

[Anonymous No.3836674]

>>3836638
>>3836642
>OP asks for description of his face
>faggot describes some imaginary character he invents out of nothing

>Well done.

I hope these are samefags, but the sad thing is that they probably aren't.

[Anonymous No.3836688]

>>3836671
> describe the face of the person in this picture to someone whom has never seen it.

Eh. I don't actually care. I mean, who would?

[Anonymous No.3836690]

>A lot like Bret Easton Ellis

[Anonymous No.3836693]

>>3836677
well, the faggy sideburns don't really go with the haircut of a sailor from the nineteen fifties. his nose is bit off and he'll probably have a double chin by the time he's forty. he's got that selconsciously earnest and wary expression of a guy who's not used to taking his own photo--sort of the male equivalent of ducklips--and he s leaning forward to hide a sagging digastric.

[Anonymous No.3836703]

>>3836677
On that wet night where birds perched on telephone poles and flapped their wings but never started into the lonely night, we found a young man sat against an old pavilion near a lake. He hung his shoulders over his feet like he was cramped or throwing up and we moved up on him we saw that he was. He moved his head halfway towards us, up from that pile of slop between his legs and looked at us with big, woman eyes and red lips. His hair was pulled down the side of his head either greased that way or made that way from a period of neglect.

[Anonymous No.3836705]

>>3836674

I wrote about the character because guess I inferred it from the photo. Don't see the harm in doing so. As I said, I am not a good enough writer just to write a series of features in a compelling way.

[Anonymous No.3836707]

Young man. 28. Probaly a drunk or crack addict. due to his reddiness face.
Starring glare looking out for the next score.
Probaly sold his body ie ass for cheap coins.

[Anonymous No.3836708]

>>3836574
this one is the only good one in the thread.

the fewer words you use to describe something the better (not that you shouldn't embellish and ornament your descriptions now and then.)

[Anonymous No.3836727]

>>3836708
except every brewer i know has sandy hair and freckles. So this guy isn't what that sentence brings to mind. if more physical description was present in a previous sentence, this would be a fine closing.

[Anonymous No.3836768]

>>3836727

>every brewer I know

[Anonymous No.3836801]

That was Jimmy No-Toes. Had a face that made you wish he'd never show you his ass if you catch my drift. Owned a speakeasy on Fifth and Lex.

[Anonymous No.3836812]

>>3836768
well, i only know five brewers, and they're all related. but the point stands.

[Anonymous No.3836820]

>>3836812

I just found it amusing. 'Every brewer I know', as if it were a common thing to know lots of them, like 'every brown haired person I know' or 'every woman I know'.

Besides, I'm not sure that its incompatibility with the handful of related brewers you actually know necessarily invalidates that guy's description. Either way, pretty funny.

[Anonymous No.3836854]

Oh, thats Claude. We used to hang out on The Strip. He was more lucky than I.
He took 20 inches
Funny thing, he's got no teeth.

[Anonymous No.3836868]

His face was broad and plain, with a large, well rounded nose. He had short, brown hair, which never passed the boundary of his long and rather flat forehead, and he had a noticeably pointed chin. All in all there was nothing particularly remarkable about his face, other than his eyes... They were a bright, fluorescent shade of blue, to the point that if one were to stare into his eyes for long enough, then everything else in the room would seem distant, and blurry. His eyes also had a sort of... inner strength in them, suggesting that those auroral irises, belonged to a man who would not change his beliefs because of what his peers thought of him, and would sooner break than bend.

[Anonymous No.3837672]

A stocky young figure whose most apparent features were his large forehead and bulbous nose, complimented by his feeble quivering attempt at a smile and sullen eyes that sought a constant urge for approval.

[Anonymous No.3837683]

who gives a shit if the reader is picturing the same face as you? is there any reason the shape the guys face actually matters? why can't the reader just picture whatever face they want?

[Anonymous No.3837691]

>>3837672
10/10

[Anonymous No.3837700]

>Helen of Troy had a face that would launch a thousand ships. Joseph had a face that would launch a thousand friendzones.

Sometimes I amaze myself with my own wit.

[Anonymous No.3837716]

>>3837672


>sought a constant urge for approval

Simply doesn't make sense. His eyes are constantly seeking a desire to be approved? That's the opposite of what you're trying to express.

>>3837691

Samefag.

[Anonymous No.3837744]

>>3837716

Change it to make sense then, ya dingus.

[Anonymous No.3837757]

>>3837700
>launch a thousand friendzones
>launch
>zone

Doesn't work m8. It's contrived as shit.

[Anonymous No.3837832]

>>3836571
>>3836677
The face is a palate of frenzy. Redness perturbs the normal pallor of his soft skin, while blotches boil up from beneath like that of an Irish sailor sick with drink. His stare is stoic behind his wild eyes and his nose is round, bulbous, yet flattened. He is driven by desire, but only the desire for approval. He will never be Stephen King.

[Anonymous No.3837842]

>>3836571

He had a face like a box of fresh-smacked twats.

[vhorlschteeks No.3838029]

>>3836707
You haven't seen many crack addicts, have you?

[Anonymous No.3839669]

>>3836571
him/her has never seen it
lol

[Anonymous No.3839674]

>>3837842

holy fuck did i ever lol

[Anonymous No.3839693]

>>3836677
his forehead was lined with ridges and was greasy. he has a nose and shoestrings in his armpits. drapes. there's light too, eyes too.