Writing with Color: Words for Skin Tone
2017年11月9日 · Skin color is something I typically have trouble with. Nov 12, 2023. Simpson17866. 5 / 5, Like TVTropes ...
how can I describe the skin tone of my character?
2017年11月8日 · While it may not always be an exact color addressed, the reader gets a sense of that they look like. That being said. The color tone you are asking about would be considered a mellow sand. Or a light beige. Calling someone pink, would be a little insulting. Unless they happen to come from a species that is pink, or they happen to not have any ...
Describing POC Skin Color - Creative Writing Forums
2021年4月19日 · This tutorial makes me think a lot about not just writing and describing, but also about the place where I am when we talk about POC, how growing up in a country where people of color are not something common (Like in the USA, France, the UK, more), but racism is, had affected my perspective and my creative world. Valuable video!
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2018年1月21日 · Here is a chart for skin tone. It fails when it gets to the darkest tones but isn't bad otherwise. The main thing you want to do is to say the color of the skin, specifically, because not all Asians have the same skin tone.
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2019年11月29日 · The sentence currently says: His caramel-colored skin begs to have my hands all over it. I'm trying to keep that tone and not be offensive to anyone with a darker complexion. I found a web page written by an African American woman and she says that she finds using food to describe completion extremely offensive because eating food symbolizes ...
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2019年5月28日 · It's noted frequently in non-fantasy novels, and it certainly comes up in the real world often enough. Nobody's colorblind. It's generally unnecessary to mention someone's race in conversation, but it's something noticeable that a character would be just as aware of as we are in real life. Skin color is a major component in physical description.
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2016年1月21日 · I've had the discussion about describing skin-tone with African-American authors and we both agreed that you kind of have to in that case because differentiation in skin tone at some level replaces the tricks white writers use to differentiate white characters from each other - namely hair color. But you can also describe white skin visually ...
What hair color should my character have? - Writing Forums
2013年3月7日 · it depends if they dye their hair, but actually the most common color of eyes for a natural red head is light blue... my point was that the slightly mysterious girl with creamy skin, green eyes and flowing red locks is a colossal cliche …
What character appearances do you think are overused?
2011年7月28日 · - any hair/eye/skin color comparision along the lines of "like a shimmering sea," "like the brightly scattered leaves of autumn," "creamy as the smoothest marble" etc - when the author goes on about how someone's facial lines make them look older than they are because they represent all their years of anguish.
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2014年7月3日 · Personally, I do not see the reason to mention skin color unless it's vital to the story. Like... an ashen face or he/she was the icky greenish grey of four day old pea soup, or the white skin of his arm wound to the floor, winding up as a pile of bruised, wet, red ribbons next to the lathe. Ew. But yeah.