New tag: for that shadow under the eyes thing

Y'know, that thing.

Examples: post #406277, post #369860 and post #352050...

I have no freakin' idea what to call it whatsoever... Shadow_under_eyes sounds really bad and wrong to me, like someone who hasn't slept for 3 days... I definitely think there should be a tag for it though.

Hmm, I'd think "shadow_under_eyes" would more aptly describe someone dead tired or something like that.

I'm not sure what I'd call this. Glower maybe?

Maybe something like shaded_face?

Having that shadow there really seems to cover several different expressions depending on the rest of the context of the face. Depending on the eyes, mouth, and a few lines the character could either be sick to their stomach, glaring, boiling with rage, depressed, thinking dark thoughts, etc. It's more like an enhancement of other expressions than a stand alone expression.

Focusing on face rather than eyes is a good start, since it covers the whole top half of the face and sometimes then some.

Honestly, I think whatever we use it's going to be non-intuitive and will be one of the many tags that you only get to know by stumbling across it. So instead of getting it perfect, just get something easy to type and remember. shaded_face doesn't sound half bad (I was going to say facial_shadow which probably isn't so good), but keep coming up with suggestions.

There is this one no_eyes and this one crazy_eyes. Depending on what it is used for...

Glower would be for anger or sadness. Shadowing the characters eyes is also used when they are scared or bored.

lol how about enhanced_emotion

i think shaded_face sounds good. ^_^
either that or shadow_faced

emotion_enhancer is what I was thinking but it sounds kinda dumb.

shaded_face works for me, I was thinking something like shadow_over_face or something but I guess I forgot to post that suggestion. It's never going to be absolutely perfect, but that seems to cover most of the bases.

The one thing I was hoping for really was that there's a Japanese term for it.

None of the possible tags are in use, and I see this thing rather frequently. Would it be okay to use shaded_face?

I like shadow over eyes more.

I'm hesitant since there are cases where the eyes aren't shown and generally its the upper-face, and not just the area around the eyes, being shadowed.

I didn't think of that. I don't believe there's enough difference between the two to really matter, though, and thought shadow over eyes would be the more descriptive choice. But either way is fine.

Old topic but interesting, +1 for shaded_face.

Just choose something and go with it. We can always change it later.

Shaded_face sounds good to me.

Created a shaded_face wiki and added some posts. If we decide to change it later, we can alias it.

turn_pale is in use for similiar situations. Though there may be room for both with specific definitions. Examples being shaded_face for "I'm gonna kill you" situations (post #743246) and turn_pale for "oh god why" (post #681252) or "I feel sick" (post #755593) situations.

Turn_pale seems to be aimed more at when the top half of the face turns blue... But I do see a lot of overlap in the practical use of it. I think turn pale is a really bad term for the phenomenon we're trying to tag, though, so I'd rather take the shaded_face-ish ones from turn_pale and re-tag them.

EDIT: And I also think in some cases both tags could be used, if there's doubt whether it's shade or pale-ness (like post #590765, maybe).

Go shaded_face.