A very good reference for Writers, too. The color of a room, or someone’s clothing can convey emotion or a state of being, or even set the tone for a setting or a situation.
Colors often come with ingrained connotations – they certainly have strong meanings in Asian cultures, and in European cultures they have intrinsically understood meanings.
Red – passion, blood, anger, fire (for example)
This is going in my writer’s journal.
Tag: drawing
Interesting, this shows the probably of a child’s eye color based on the eye color of its parents!
The many ways to tie a scarf. I think NYC looks the most difficult but also the cutest. Which one’s your favorite?
DIY Guide to Dress Necklines from Paper Blog here. For other popular guides go here:
- Fashion Pattern Vocabulary Part 2 here.
- Fashion Pattern Vocabulary Part 1 here.
- Know Your Sunglasses here. 29,000 notes
- Know Your Shoes Part 1 61,000 notes (Lobster Claws anyone? Hilarious)
- Know Your Shoes Part 2 here.
Describing Eye Colors
I dunno about you guys, but I hate cliches like ‘emerald green’, ‘obsidian’, or ‘sky blue’ when describing eye colors. Here are a couple of places I’d like to share to help prevent cliches in writing descriptive characters:
List of Colors (Wikipedia) – Goes into shades of colors in lower links
“texter” by tim holman
a little javascript experiment that lets you explore your creativity by drawing with words. try it out here
(via prostheticknowledge)
THIS IS FUN




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