By Ion Danker – March 3rd, 2011
Wang Jiayun emerges as an online celebrity overnight in Korea. (Screengrab from YouTube)
The Korea Herald/Asia News Network
Seoul — Photoshop works digital wonders, and one piece of striking evidence is illustrated in the unaltered photos of a Chinese girl who created an Asia-wide buzz with her picture-perfect image.
The newly revealed photos suggest that the widely circulated pictures showing her doll-like image with impeccable lines might have been highly edited and embellished.
The girl, named Wang Jiayun, emerged as an online celebrity overnight in Korea and elsewhere when the apparently beautified photos hit the Web communities.
Online users were particularly drawn to her almost “unreal” beauty, prompting a debate over whether the picture-perfect girl is a human or a doll.
Wang’s unrealistically large eyes, pale face, perfectly structured nose and extremely slim figure resemble a human-sized doll.
According to online news reports, Wang is a 17-year-old high school student in Shenzhen, China.
Many netizens who praised Wang’s Barbie doll appearance seemed disappointed in her due to the artificial photo editing.
Amid growing controversy, Wang has shut down her personal blog.
When you are writing a story, have you included some description of the character's appearance? Describing the character is IMPORTANT so that the READER is able to VISUALIZE as he reads your story. If not, the character would end up as a FACELESS-cum-BODYLESS person. It sounds like a floating ghost, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteThe description must therefore create a DOMINANT impression.
The trick is
1) describing at least 3 features about her PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
2) one of the 3 must INCLUDE the most DOMINANT feature that STANDS OUT in the READER'S MIND.
In the case of the above article, it must be the lady's unrealistically large, doll-like eyes.