What are some ways to describe the appearance of a character

Action and demeanor.

Analysis: "A student has been sitting there silently thinking" is a description of a person in terms of action and demeanor, the student has been sitting there silently, is the action, thinking is the demeanor.

The description of the action is to show exactly the dynamics of the character, while the portrait, expression and other descriptions are mainly to depict the character of the static.

Demeanor description refers to the facial expression, the description should be used to express the expression, the demeanor of the words, such as crying face, focus on the look and so on. Morphological description mainly describes the expression on the face.

Extended information:

Characterization consists of 5 aspects.

1, portrait description (appearance description): through the description of the appearance, look, posture, dress, tone, to reveal the character of a description method.

For example: she has black hair, pink jacket called out her watery face.

2, (action description): a method of description that reveals a character's personality through the description of the character's personalized actions and movements.

For example, he took a step and stepped forward.

3, language description: is through the character's personalized language, such as conversations with others, to show the character of a description method. For example, he said sincerely, "I'm sorry, teacher, I was wrong."

4, psychological description: is through the dissection of the character's psychological activities (such as inner feelings, intentions, aspirations, thoughts, thought struggle ......), digging into the character's thoughts and feelings, in order to portray the character image of the inner character traits of a description method.

For example, he thought to himself, "If I have an ideal, then I can fight for it!

5. Morphological description: there is a difference with physical description, morphological description is the portrayal of human facial expression, can highlight the character traits of the character.

For example, he frowned, a disgusted look. Morphological description is also called expression description.