Blue? Gray? Heavy-lidded? Male? Female? Young? Older?

GREAT DESCRIPTIONS OF EYE COLOR

Ordinarily, I recommend not describing your main characters much at all. See why in my article, How to Write Physical Description for Your Characters. 

That said, I admit that I really love descriptions of eye-color. Here are some of my favorites, organized alphabetically by title of the fiction in which they appear.  I'll add more as I run across them.

From page 34 of Always by Nicola Griffith: "She felt my gaze and looked up. Grey-blue eyes, soft as dove feathers."

From page 3 of In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming: "Her eyes were the only exceptional thing about her, true hazel, like granite seen under green water."

From page 161 of In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming: "His eyes were Fourth-of-July blue, high and bright with the snap of a flag in the wind." 

From page 17 of Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey:  "My eyes … were that color the poets call bistre, a deep and lustrous darkness, like a forest pool under the shade of ancient oaks."

From page 101 of The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner: "His eyes were unusual:  blue, almost violet, like the heart of a candleflame."  See my review of The Privilege of the Sword.

From page 4 of Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh:  "She had the night-sky eyes of a cardinal Psy – an endless field of black scattered with pinpricks of cold white fire."
Links:

• How to Describe Eye Color
• Description - Clichés to Avoid
• More articles on how to write fiction
• Fantasy fiction reviews page
• Romance fiction reviews page

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