Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Bee stung lips rhetorical question

jrizal opened this issue on Jun 17, 2003 ยท 17 posts


Patricia posted Tue, 17 June 2003 at 11:49 AM

Poser has made me examine a lot of my 'automatic' reactions to human features...and it started with the Big Lips. I'm with Crescent--if the lips look like they belong with the other features, then they seem beautiful to me--thick or thin. But if they're on a face without one other feature that is full, softly rounded or fleshy, then it looks grotesque to me. The whole full and not-quite-meeting-in-the-center trend is really interesting....it's very neotonous (sp?) as in relating to neotony--the tendency of mammals to be drawn to baby-like features. It's really effective as a way to bond parents and young, but I find myself wondering if any previous generations were so utterly fixated on it as this one is....? And why does it have such a powerful effect on us?