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« on: March 21, 2009, 11:16:55 AM »
Is there a place to for the various eye coloring when describing a character? I get frustrated when I am trying to describe a character's eyes and while, I am sure, in fantasy/SF it isn't too important to be actuate (sp?) I like to be in my other genres Sad

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« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2009, 01:24:41 PM »
I like eyes so tend to be very descriptive with them.  I am a believer they are things like window's to the soul, and something that shows mood, etc.  But if you show emotions or whatever other ways I would think you could gloss over it if you don't want to describe them.  Lol or I am totally misunderstanding the question?
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« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2009, 01:38:20 PM »
Quote from: Sandy on March 21, 2009, 01:24:41 PM
I like eyes so tend to be very descriptive with them.  I am a believer they are things like window's to the soul, and something that shows mood, etc.  But if you show emotions or whatever other ways I would think you could gloss over it if you don't want to describe them.  Lol or I am totally misunderstanding the question?

Yes, I agree with you on eyes being the window to the soul bit. And I always focus early to the mcs' eyes so that in future scene I can express their moods better. In one story, I have a MC who has 'emerald' green eyes. Because her name is Kathryn, everyone refers to her as Kat (cat - get it?? Tongue).
But seriously, how many ways can you describe blue, green, brown, etc. Of course, some have a mixtures of different colors and I have to take a guess at it.

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« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2009, 03:12:46 PM »
Yeah, it can be a challenge..
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« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2009, 06:23:29 PM »
I had a writing partner that used to look up synonyms for blue, green, brown, and grey. She would come up with some wonderfully uniqiue descriptions for each characters eyes. She gave me a link to two different articles that you might find interesting. I'll see if I can find them and if I do I'll post them. Smiley It's been a while so I'll have to do some searching lol.  :Smiley

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« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2009, 06:30:13 PM »
OK, I tried 1.  These are the 18 I came up with for blue.  Some colors are close enough that her mood would change them from one to another.  Or the light could change them.  Any one have more for blue?

azure
cobalt
sky blue
sea color
beryl
cerulean
indigo
navy
royal
sapphire
teal
turquoise
ultramarine 
baby blue
light blue
clear blue
deep blue
ocean blue
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« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2009, 07:04:22 PM »
Quote from: Sandy on March 21, 2009, 06:30:13 PM
OK, I tried 1.  These are the 18 I came up with for blue.  Some colors are close enough that her mood would change them from one to another.  Or the light could change them.  Any one have more for blue?

azure
cobalt
sky blue
sea color
beryl
cerulean
indigo
navy
royal
sapphire
teal
turquoise
ultramarine 
baby blue
light blue
clear blue
deep blue
ocean blue


Sandy,

You miss one - Ice blue. And I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't heard it on TV a few hours ago Smiley

Quote from: AlaskanRC on March 21, 2009, 06:23:29 PM
I had a writing partner that used to look up synonyms for blue, green, brown, and grey. She would come up with some wonderfully uniqiue descriptions for each characters eyes. She gave me a link to two different articles that you might find interesting. I'll see if I can find them and if I do I'll post them. Smiley It's been a while so I'll have to do some searching lol.  :Smiley

Destiny

That would be great if you can find the links, but I understand what you're saying - once you have "filed" them, it is difficult after a period of time to find where you did "file" them  Cheesy

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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2009, 07:11:29 PM »
ice and steel blue

my character has eyes that glow fluorescent green in the sun...don't say creepy cause that's what mine do in the sun, guess that's how my character was born with em'. Gotta be creative with eye colors!
got another one not just brown eyes but his brown was lighter so he had gold colored eyes! one had coffee colored eyes with a hint of cream Shocked ok so I was feemin that day maybe!
black eyes r boring just beady black eyes Huh?
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« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2009, 07:16:44 PM »
Quote from: Gin on March 21, 2009, 07:11:29 PM
ice and steel blue

my character has eyes that glow fluorescent green in the sun...don't say creepy cause that's what mine do in the sun, guess that's how my character was born with em'. Gotta be creative with eye colors!
got another one not just brown eyes but his brown was lighter so he had gold colored eyes! one had coffee colored eyes with a hint of cream Shocked ok so I was feemin that day maybe!
black eyes r boring just beady black eyes Huh?


A few of my "bad" guys have black eyes, but I am drawing a blank on how I described them Huh?

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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2009, 07:30:55 PM »
That is so true Jo! I'm lucky to have a couple ideas of where I may have filed them. Smiley

Nice list Sandy! Too add one (though it similar to many) Midnight Blue. Smiley

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« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2009, 07:31:55 PM »
black is onyx, cold, harsh, dark, sinsister.  I have blue eyes, but if I wear green ONE tends to turn green.  Lol needless to say I try to avoid green...
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« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2009, 08:44:48 PM »
Quote from: Sandy on March 21, 2009, 07:31:55 PM
black is onyx, cold, harsh, dark, sinsister.  I have blue eyes, but if I wear green ONE tends to turn green.  Lol needless to say I try to avoid green...

Hey, I never thought of Onyx, but then it is not used much in conversations - unless you are talking about stones. The description is good too.
LOL!! One eye turns green?  But on the other hand, my favorite color is hunter green, but I doubt I could use that as a eye color...

When this thread is done, I'm going to save it in my story file Smiley

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« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2009, 08:53:27 PM »
Glad you are finding good things here Jo.  Trust me, it is weird. People drive me nuts.

"Wait.  Let me see.  Wow, did you know one of your eyes looks green?"

"Yeah, it happens when I wear green."

"Really?  That's really cool."

I can't tell you how many times I have had a converstation like that.  Lol the other one was "did someone hit you?"

That is because I have a birth mark on my eye lid above right eye.  Sometimes you can't see it.  But if I am overly tired or upset about something it looks like a bruise...
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« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2009, 11:35:04 PM »
I can see how that would get annoying after a while, Sandy. My eyes are odd it's not so much that they change color but they have a large circle of blue with a thin green/yellow circle near the center of my eye.

Jo, I couldn't find the specific link I was looking for regarding eye color I believe she used a certian Thesaurus. Using google I didn't come up with the correct one. I put in blue-and it came up with the synonym sad. Not what I was looking for.

Though I found two articles she wrote about finding the 'right' name for character and body langauge related to character creation. Both are really good. I will post these in the link thread as well.

http://fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue29/Questing.htm

http://fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue30/didyouforget.htm

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« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2009, 07:35:34 AM »
Quote from: Sandy on March 21, 2009, 08:53:27 PM
Glad you are finding good things here Jo.  Trust me, it is weird. People drive me nuts.

"Wait.  Let me see.  Wow, did you know one of your eyes looks green?"

"Yeah, it happens when I wear green."

"Really?  That's really cool."

I can't tell you how many times I have had a converstation like that.  Lol the other one was "did someone hit you?"

That is because I have a birth mark on my eye lid above right eye.  Sometimes you can't see it.  But if I am overly tired or upset about something it looks like a bruise...

Sandy,
I agree with RC, that must be annoying. I didn't really thought about it until now.  Embarrassed

RC,
 Thanks for the links to the articles. I'll check them out after I get home from work.

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