However, you can use eye description effectively at key points of character development. Drawing attention to it almost detracts from the key action here – the momentary connection between two characters. ‘She smiled and looked across at him with her grey-green eyes’ reads a little awkwardly because the character’s eye color is not particularly relevant. One reason descriptions of novel characters’ eyes sometimes reads as cliché is because authors describe eyes apropos of nothing. Use eye description to support story development For example, a character who has a nervous temperament could have an intense, penetrating stare that one wouldn’t expect, given their nervous or avoidant behaviour. One way to describe characters’ eyes effectively is to use them to create contrast.
The man with the big, ruddy face might have small, delicate hands.
#BEFORE YOUR EYES STORY FULL#
People’s appearances are often full of strange juxtapositions and contrasts. Make characters’ eyes contrasting or incongruous One way to make eye description more interesting is to make characters’ eyes stand out in relation to character traits or other features: 2. Describe their mouth, nose, brow, chin and ears. While this is a feature we notice (especially if a person has unusual, striking eyes), there are many other interesting facial features.Īs an exercise, practice describing a character’s face. Often aspiring authors focus on the eyes more than anything else when describing characters. The color of a person’s eyes doesn’t tell us whether they are kind or cruel, an optimist or a pessimist.
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