Weasel-faces, Angel-faces, Lean and Pinched and Goblin-faces [Fantasy Writer’s Sheet: Faces]
A little description can go a long way in fleshing out a character. Here’s a phraselist intended to get your brain jogging
FACE DESCRIPTIONS
FACE DESCRIPTIONS
“Bird-boned face”
Broad face
Egg-shaped skull
Broad-featured – wide nose and lips
Flat-faced
elfin (small and delicate, typically with an attractively mischevious charm| N an elf)
Hawk-faced
Heart-shaped face
Aquiline (of an eagle)
Squash-faced
goblin-faced
Sharp-faced
The shadowy angles of his face
Narrow face
High bones of his face
round
Squarish (head)
“Her face, oval, thin and bright, shone lily-pale between wings of black, curling hair.”
“Cold determination sharpens the elegant planes of her face”
“No older than ten, she had the round flat face, dusky skin, and golden eyes of Naath,”
“Her furrowed brow cleaving otherwise warm features”
Unlined face (fresh-faced)
Pinch-faced
Sharp-boned (face/figure)
“Heavy-browed, broad nosed and slab-jawed like a prizefighter.”)
Pinched features
“The planes of his face are so sharp they should gleam like metal in the sun”
Lean-faced
“slopes of her cheeks”
Angular
Planes of his/her face (“The steep, golden planes of her face…”)
squarish
Comely ([typically of a woman] pleasing to look at)
_-featured (Sharp, delicate, fine)
Sagging cheeks
Little/small face (children phys)
_-cheeked (lean; full; hollow; bone; red)
His pale features seemed rather too small and crowded together
Weasel-faced (face with unattractively thin, sharp or pointed features)
___-faced (thick-faced; fresh-faced; blank-faced; round-faced)
He gave me what was intended to be a withering look, though it wasn’t very effective. Brasti’s a little too handsome for anyone’s good, including his own. Strong cheekbones and a wide mouth closed in a reddish-blond short beard to amplify a smile that gets him out of most fights he talks his way into. His mastery of the bow gets him through the rest. But when he tries to stare you down, it looks like he’s pouting. (Simon de Castell)
High-low cheekbones
FOREHEAD
Broad forehead
High/low forehead
Sloping forehead
Thick/heavy-browed
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