I remembered seeing posters of these kids all over the place when I grew up in the 60s. I've been very surprised how hard it is to find them anywhere. It's as if they're a forgotten, embarassing memory from that period that 60s retrospectives have mostly tried to forget. I'm amazed that I couldn't find anything else about Lee. I would have thought that there was a fan out there with a website collecting some of his old paintings as a fan. It's been fairly hard to find any images at all on the net that he's done. 

Maybe I'll try to do a morph for Aiko one of these days to emulate them.  I don't think I ever saw anything other than a full face (no profiles) of these kids.

Already done by Daz for A4. That is what some of the morphs were inspired from.

I would show you an example but I just finished putting my new quad together and don't have them installed yet.

Yes they presaged the big-eyed look so common in the manga world today.
I have a complete book about these and other kitschy paintings from the '50's and '60's. I'll find the book this evening and post the title and author here if you are interested.

Attached Link: http://www.amazon.com/Big-Eye-Art-Resurrected-Transformed/dp/1858944368

I'm not sure that these influenced manga because Speed Racer and Kimba already had that look when they were made in the mid-60s. Anime characters have a pointed chin whereas these mod figures have very spherical heads that would make Charlie Brown jealous. The Lee paintings look somewhat like a baby head on a teen body with a little extra exaggeration.

I flipped through all the Aiko 4 products and didn't quite find a match, though it's possible that Anasi, MuireTeens, or Miranda might have been influenced by these figures. I didn't see anything with the rounded heads in the paintings, though some did have oversized eyes. Otherwise, the A4 characters are more realistically proportioned even though they're somewhat cartoonish with larger eyes.

Some people trace the origins to Betty Boop.  She was unquestionably
popular in Japan.  When the Fleischer studio realized this, they made
a salute to their Eastern fans......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHTUHT4kAOY&feature=related

Unfortunately Betty's appeal for harmony and peace didn't have much
influence on the Japanese government.

Hey I use to have those posters in my room.....weird blast from the past.  Sharen

bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/2008/06/lee-big-eyed-ki.html

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Flickr Big Eye Art Pool
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OH! I remember these! I even drew one in my art class, but, sadly it's long gone.

You have mistaken my comment on morphs to looking at pre dialed characters at Daz. The A4 morphs have those eyes and others but you need the A4 morphs and not someone elses French Canadiian Interpretatation of what ever it is suppose to be.

I'll have to finally load A4 up and see what kind of morphs are there.  I just haven't had time to play with that figure.

I read one blog where the red-eyed doll, at the Anatomy101 site, was being sold left and right by mothers because they're kids were too creeped out by the doll.

Considering how many sites have hundreds of images of psychedelic posters, I'm surprised that these big eye kids are fairly hard to find. I can't even find a site that says whether or not Lee is a man or a woman.

Looks like Sadie over at DAZ.

Gagnonrich and all,
I found the book, it's titled "Just Above the Mantelpiece: Mass Market Materpieces" and author is Wayne Hemingway.

The artist who did those first big eyed kids you showed was Lee Eden and he did a series of mod big eyed kids in the '60's.

The book is available at amazon for $13.85

Attached Link: Margaret Keane

It was helpful knowing that the artist's full name was "Lee Eden".  Even knowing that, Google still couldn't find the artist in the first 20 hits and I gave up past that. It's funny how an artist, who created memorable images in the 60s, is nearly unknown today.

Sadie probably would be a better starting point for morphing into these kids since that figure already has a spherical head.

Attached Link: http://www.keane-eyes.com/

That's cool.  Kate Hudson will be starring in a movie about her.

I remember something like this from the 70s, but the eyes were even *bigger...*sorta like the look Puss N Boots gets in Shrek (hey, go easy, I have grandchildren...;)

But then the 70s were about excess, anyways...;)

ACK! Big Eyed Kitteh Skeers Meh!

Hey, I had one of those too.....Sharen

She is a little freaky looking now.

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Hate Chatty Cathy since I saw that Night Gallery or whatever it was...my name is Talking Tina and I'm going to kill you now!
lol....freaked me out.

Quote - Hate Chatty Cathy since I saw that Night Gallery or whatever it was...my name is Talking Tina and I'm going to kill you now!
lol....freaked me out.

You're right, the one with the actor who played Kojak before he went bald? Yes, that freaked me out too... I remember it was Night Gallery... After that I never watched it again til recently when they did a late night rerun of old Night Gallery episode....

LOL :lol:

Ooooo! I never saw that Night Gallery episode. I do remember a Twilight Zone where the guy hides in a big Department Store until it's closed for the night and then all the mannequins freak him out. Like their eyes are following him and they are talking to him.

I think there was an episode about a doll in the TV series Friday the 13th.

Put some goth clothes on tha chatty and you would have Bride of Chucky. LOL.

For a second, I though Joe Public's figure was one of the paintings. That's so cool!  Is it Sadie?

"Is it Sadie?"

No, it's Preteen-Vicky with some morphbrush work.
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