Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Creative Complex: Character Constructing: Hair

I feel like I'm just going to start saying: "sorry this post is up late" for every post.

Anyways, hair.

With imagining characters' hair, you need to consider a few things:

Length:
How long is your character's hair? Do you know in precise units (inches, etc.) or do you know more in relation to the rest of your character (part-way down his/her back)?

Consistency:
How curly is your character's hair? Is it completely straight? Do they have mermaid curls? Big ringlets? A million tiny curls? Is their hair bushy and wild? Is it tame?

Color:
What color is your character's hair? It doesn't have to be specifically one color, and always remember colors like copper, raven, and mousy are more descriptive and specific than red, black, and brown. Are there other ways you could describe hair color, ways that no one has used, like the color of oak wood? Does the color of their hair change depending on the lighting? Is it shiny, or dull (I don't mean dull as in not pretty, I mean dull as in opposite of shiny.)


Thickness: 
How thick is your character's hair?

Feel:
How does your character's hair feel? Is it soft and downy, like baby hair? Is it coarse and rough? Is it smooth and silky? Is it somewhere in-between? Does it depend on the time, or when the hair was last washed? What else can you think of?

Smell:
How does your character's hair smell? Does it smell like their shampoo, or a perfume/cologne they use? Does their hair have a distinct smell of it's own? How would you describe that smell?

Hairdos:
Does your character wear their hair in a certain style all the time? Do they like to change what they do to their hair? Do they have a favorite style? Do they always brush their hair?

Spruce Nogard

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