writerly ways - Come see my characters

[cornerofmadness]

Well since I'm utterly brain dead and I wrote fanfic and guest blogs this past week, I didn't have time to write anything new. Instead I got one of my usual time wasters out of the way BEFORE nano started instead of in the middle of it. So here are the faces/body types I'm using for my fantasy nano this year.

First up Ethon Drake (fire mage, soldier) & Charis Blackwood (princess, soldier). A side note: the skin color would be reversed with Charis being darker than Ethon who has Yaarian (i.e. pale) blood in him.





Sendhil Ramamurty, because I think he's damn sexy and so is Ethon. Ethon also has the wavy out of control hair.



I'm not sure what this is from but hey, that's nice.




Navi Rawat (I might use Amrita Arora, it's hard to tell, both would work)


And for the other two, the Living Goddess Savaria Archana and the Yaarian herbalist/priest, Sverre Spicer





I picked Aiswarya Rai for her and she would be dressed a lot like this, well not in a sari but they do use a form of bindi (though it's not called that)





I asked evil_little_dog for help with cute blonds. She pointed out that she and I don't agree on cute (I don't even like blonds much). We do agree on Bradley James. He'd make a good Sverre. While he does have severe burn scarring, costing him his hand, his face was untouched so he's good looking but he doesn't think so because of the scars

I'm too tired for word count summaries. I added 81 words since last time so...next week

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yay, character faces!

And, no, we generally don't agree on what's cute. Except we like Asian men.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that's about it. Poor Sverre, he's the odd man out

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

He is. :D

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well he'll have a blond sister and Eetu with him but yeah ...

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that almost evens it out.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Eetu rather looks like Ed

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yes, I remember you telling me that when you first sent me the story ideas to look at. :D

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

poor Eetu

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Hey, he could do a lot worse than look like me. He could look like the bastard - Ed

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you mean actually good looking? - Roy

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Ed waves him off

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

I can't find anybody who looks like my characters. The actor Toshiro Mifune resembles Maru a little bit, with his square jaw and Brillo-pad hair, but not enough. Nobody looks like Toshiro at all. I guess they're not getting a photogaphic "cheat sheet" to help readers out.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it's not always easy to find ones that match the pictures in my head. This time it was easy.

Naturally i had to look up who Toshiro Mifune was and realized yeah i knew who that was.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Archana then looks a lot like Matt's mother, who was half Indian. That's where he got his good looks. :)

Bradley James is a good-looking bloke.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Ah well that's interesting about Matt

He is indeed. Sverre would have green eyes though but otherwise this is good. It allows me to have a character with apleasing face which is at odds to his scarred body