ETA: a link to the art in question : Oberyn ETA2: The artist changed the colour of skin in the linked art above, so it doesn't correspond any more with the one I put in the box.
It's funny the colour in the pic looks more green-ish and brown-ish to me than the colour you posted, but I did check green-ish and brown-ish before deciding for grey-ish and brown-ish.
It is indeed, but you are right that it is a weird colour to use as a skin tone. However, everytime someone mentions olive skin, I actually think of green olives, and this colour is not so far away from the colour of green olives. ;)
lol yes, that was my first reaction to that art "olive skinned doesn't mean literally green"! Olive is a tricky descriptive in terms of the image it evoques in the head. Then again words to describe skin tones are tricky.
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Date: 28 October 2008 11:24 pm (UTC)Olive is a tricky descriptive in terms of the image it evoques in the head. Then again words to describe skin tones are tricky.