Novel Writing Assignment

So, I was told I needed to find images of what my characters look like ideally. Instead of posting them all in this, I'll just put a link to my twitpic account so you can see them yourself. :)

http://twitpic.com/photos/slytherinchick

It took me FOREVER to find Marid. I went through about 20 pages of Middle Eastern young adult males on Getty images, narrowed it down to multiracial males, and eventually found my Marid. I seriously sat here in my computer chair with my mouth open in awe for a full minute when I found him. He's not completely perfect, though. For example, I describe him as having "dark eyes," and I always envisioned him a little more masculine in the jaw and lips, but...I saw this collection of photos with this Middle Eastern man and I realized I'd been going the wrong direction. Alexa describes him as "beautiful" and that's what comes to mind when I look at this picture. So all I need to do is photoshop his eyes to make them dark brown and he's absolutely perfect. :D

The others were a bit easier to find. I kind of realized I wanted Megan Fox to 'play' Aeris after Alexa asks if Megan Fox is Aeris' mirror in the Regular world. At first I had Angelina Jolie's name in there, but then I remembered that Angelina doesn't have blue eyes or wavy dark brown hair. Guess who does? :P

For Jon, all I knew was that he had to be classically handsome, muscular, blonde, blue-eyed, and a little arrogant looking. Who better than Chris Pine as Captain Kirk? He fits the bill perfectly.

Finding Alexa was harder. She's honestly the most average girl you can think of. Average height, medium-length brunette hair (stick straight), average build (though slightly muscular in the shoulders from years of softball), brown eyes, average size lips, average size nose, average size forehead...you get the idea. She's just average. Finding an average famous person is the hardest feat in the world, so I tried two outlets to finding my Alexa. I Google searched 'average brunette young adult female' and came up with nothing, so I checked all my other picture folders that I keep 'characters' in and found Leighton Meester of Gossip Girl fame. I personally think Leighton is gorgeous, so she's a little too pretty to be Alexa, but I found a couple pictures where she's got on casual clothes and very little makeup and those seemed to work out.
My second route to finding Alexa was using Getty again. I found the photographer who did Marid's pictures and I just skimmed through a couple pages of her photos until I found a picture of a very average (yet still attractive) young woman. She's not ugly, she's not breathtakingly gorgeous, she's just...average.

I still haven't decided if I've found the perfect Alexa yet. She's the only one I didn't have a "That's the one!" moment for, so...she's still up in the air. I'll be sure to keep you updated on my hunt, though. :)