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This one wasn't so much an attempt at being creative as it was getting familiar with morphing software. I just got a little obsessed with it, and the end result turned out to be interesting.

There is a theory that the most beautiful faces actually have the most average features. A number of projects have taken many photographs of people (some who were far from the glamour magazine standards) and morphed them together to create attractive faces. I have seen these, and as interesting as they were, I wanted to "one-up" them. For starters, I picked 32 women who are already known for having attractive faces. I wanted to see if it made a difference. (The answer is "not really".) But the second thing I wanted to do was show different angles than straight-forward. As far as I know, I'm the only person who has done this in profile and 3/4 views.

The thirty-two women to make these images were: Jessica Alba, Gilian Anderson, Annette Bening, Claire Danes, Dana Delaney, Angie Everhart, Rebecca Gayheart, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Heather Graham, Allyson Hannigan, Angie Harmon, Lauren Holly, Traylor Howard, Helen Hunt, Elizabeth Hurley, Jane Leeves, Debra Messing, Renee O'Connor, Gwyneth Paltrow, Elizabeth Perkins, Paulina Poriskova, Molly Ringwald, Julia Roberts, Elisabeth Shue, Mira Sorvino, Sherry Stringfield, Mena Suvari, Charleze Theron, Debra Winger, Kate Winslet, Kari Wuhrer, and Cordelia (not a movie star, but the same model as in the drawing of the same name).

If anyone thinks this belongs in a better category, let me know.

**FOR THOSE THAT DON'T ALREADY KNOW**
I'm looking for models to help me make a new project just like this one. See here for more details.

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:iconbetsyboo:
Wow. That is a really neat project. What software were you using?

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:iconphydeau:
Oh. right. I was using some freeware called Morpher. It's a little buggy, and the instructions are in broken English, but it's fun to play with.
:iconveelak:
This is very, very beautiful! And so is Sunset horses. I love the "old" atmosphere of this, if u know what i mean..Great job! I wish i were as good as u..

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:iconphydeau:
Yeah, they do look like old-fashioned colorized photographs. That wasn't intentional, it just worked out that way 3 times in a row. I did nothing to alter the color at any point.
:iconkayceeus:
This is really lovely and such a pretty girl!

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:iconkeywee:
wow interesting outcome, i reckon gwyneth paltrow has the perfect face shes absolutely gorgeous.
:iconhank1:
Eric,

Most interesting. And most beautiful. I especially love your side view.

FYI I once was asked why I don't paint many adult females. Here's my reply:


Is there something important that my model would enable me to project? Yes. But it has to be my model.

I would need to be first visually attracted by her looks. The ideal is Linda, but she didn't like to pose nude very often. I see my ideal almost every time I'm out even in Lafayette. Here are the features, and I need them because although I can invent, I need the basics to start with. Small breasted. Small waist. Boyish hips. Girlish face: eyes clear, probably light in color. Freckles are a plus, but uncommon. Long uncombed, or at least somehow wild, hair, probably light colored. Long thin legs. Slender upper arms. Long, thin fingers. No makeup during posing.

To be blunt, she has to be sexually attractive to me, but not my lover.

As my model, and during the entire time I would know her thereafter, there would be no more sexual attraction on my part. She would be my subject for painting only. I don't know if you are aware of this phenomenon: once she's my model, no matter the initial sexual attraction, I no longer feel it. I see it--hers and mine. And what I'd want to capture in my painting is that feeling of sexual desire.


Robert Tracy

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"The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of." -- da Vinci

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:iconphydeau:
Believe it or not, I can relate to that phenomenon. I experience something similar to it 20 times a day or more at deviantART. Upon seeing an artistic nude for the first time, there's a fraction of a second where the primitive mind has had a chance to recognize the basics of what it sees (potentially fertile female human) before the higher functions can start to process the aesthetics. The reptilian brain does what it's supposed to do (leap into the most likely course of action) before I'm conscious of it being art. And then it stops. And it never happens again with that image.

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