This Person Does Not Exist

 

 

Let’s talk about characters.

Many writers are graced with the ability to create a unique character with photographic quality descriptions. Then there are writers like me. “Uh, he had brown hair and brown eyes??” Or I pick a celebrity to model their looks. Wow, yes, I’m that bad.

Lucky for me, there are great tools/sites out there to flesh out my characters and make them exceptional. In the next few weeks, we will examine a few character-generating sites/tools.

First up is the simplest. The site is called This Person Does Not Exist. https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ Throw the site address into your browser, and a photo of a person will appear. The image is random. You will get a man, woman, or child with any skin tone that exists. And that person does not exist. The generation mashes images together seamlessly to create a photo of a fictional person, the perfect for inspiration to create interesting characters. (I have no idea what other uses you might have for this site. No idea.)

Don’t like the image? No problem. Refresh the page until you click with one of the non-people. You can save the pic for reference for your story. If you would like to use the photo, contact the web creator. After you load the image, a small box will appear at the bottom of the page. There is a Contact Me and also a Patreon page.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your viewpoint, the site is completely random. You can’t ask it to give you images of red-headed children or different ethnicities. It’s a great jumping-off point to original characters and new ideas.