Hopefully this will turn out to be a popular topic, Whazizname, as I would be very interested in seeing what others consider a beautiful woman. My own criteria are very different from most people I know personally, and I very much enjoy contemplating Loveliness. Of things you posted I find Erenda the most appealing, even though she has all those tattoos of which I'm not usually a fan; however in her culture being a tattooed lady is probably something very different from what it connotes in the USA.
The consensus of the posts so far (or at least the vibe I'm feeling) seems to be that great physical beauty is always accompanied by great vanity and is incompatible with a great spirit or soul. While I don't seek to deny anyone else's life experiences, I don't agree at all. I suppose my view is more in agreement with the ancient Greeks, who thought that physical beauty was a virtue just like honesty or justice, and that often those we find admirable for their character will also have a pleasing physical appearance (although certainly not always). I think it is interesting that after a battle the ancient Greek armies would award prizes to soldiers who distinguished themselves in various ways, and the prizewinner for most handsome soldier was always recorded for history right alongside the prizewinner for bravest soldier.
As for the matter at hand while I definitely have not yet constructed what I would consider the most beautiful
Posette possible (or ideally), I am extremely happy with a model I've been working with a lot lately. She is still a work in progress, but as Whazizname asked I think she is the most beautiful
Posette I have made so far.
What I like most about her:
--She's a brunette (technically a redhead I guess, but who's counting?) with long hair. I've never cared for short hair on women, and I think at this point I'm too old to change my mind about that.
--Her athletic physique. This
Posette has some meat on her bones, all of it lean muscle. Yet she does not go too far like a female bodybuilder or something, and still has a very feminine shape. While she has a much smaller bustline than most other Posettes commonly seen in public (in the picture her bikini top doesn't fit too well which partly obscures this), in real life a woman of a similar size would be considered by most people to have a nice rack. Her strong and healthy body also metaphorically represents a strength of character and mind. She has confidence, integrity, and doesn't put up with anybody's nonsense.
--I'm pretty happy with what I've been able to do with her facial structure. Her eyes are about 1 eye-width apart with the whole head about 5 eye-widths wide, the edges of her nose form a nice triangle with the sides of her mouth, and she has a relatively square and flat face with a strong jaw.
--If I had pictured her with more clothes on she would be modestly dressed, as she doesn't have many midriff-baring tops in her closet. Therefore even though it's not evident in the example image, she's not much of a "girly-girl." I also would imagine that this
Posette is relatively tall for a woman, maybe around 5'8" or so.
--Although I still have a long way to go, I think I continue to move closer to realism with this latest skin texture I am working on (even though in the picture her face makeup job is not the best that I could do if I took more time).
Things I want to do immediately to improve this Posette:
--She needs a better bump map. I always currently either use the Ultramorph Woman 2 bump map by Confusius (for "natural" women like this one) or the Circe bump map by Meegja (for women who wax their bikini area). I have been thinking about this and gathering sample images lately, but have not yet started work on a more realistic bump map for
Posette.
--I have been unable to find a decent "six-pack" abdominal/hip morph for the
Poser 4 Nude Woman despite many months of searching. Perhaps someone has seen such a morph somewhere on the web?
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