Exactly.  Some people love recreating real people and objects, others prefer to create what ifs.

Personally, I prefer creating what ifs.  I don't recreate a specific person, but create one that is representative of the people around me or in paintings/photos/film/tv or what I imagine a fantasy/otherworldly figure to look like. 

Hivewire never stated that Dawn is a recreation of a specific real person.  What was said ... Would you want this figure to be accurate to true human form and proportions, robust in its ability for being morphed and transformed into an endless number of characters and creatures, contain the latest in weight-map rigging technology, and have highly realistic joint bending and mesh smoothing?

Accurate to true human form and proportions means "realistic" what ifs to me, not a barbie doll, but not a copy of a real person either.

Highly realistic joint bending means her joints don't crumple when she's posed in extreme and not so extreme poses.

My problem is when people (who want my money) insist their idealized/sexualized version of a female is what I should aspire to look like.  And if I have to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars for surgeries and diets and products to mask imperfections (even at the expense of my health) to get there ... all the better.

We're artists, damn it, not scientists (mad or otherwise)

Quote - Well, maybe art isn't so much realistic in the "real" sense. Maybe more creativitly, creating worlds that don't exist, and maybe even a little escapism ;).

Laurie

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Burning within each of us are Fires of Creativity

Satira Capriccio