What Characters Look Like

This is another post based on a question from Tumperkin, who is really good at making me think.

The gentleman whose picture is illustrating this post is actor Vincent Perez. Many writers have said they use pictures of people to help them visualize characters; often pictures of actors or models, which makes sense, because those people have their pictures taken a lot, and it's easy to clip them from a magazine and tuck them into your notebook or hang them on a bulletin board. I don't do that, ...