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What do you think of the new Aela look? Please, let me know!

I would really like to make my own NPC overhaul mod, so your input would be greatly appreciated and help me shape my ideas.

(I only make face changes, not bodies. Thank you for understanding this.)

About The Presets:

The faces I am creating are in first place meant to be interesting and hopefully unique. If they are pretty or not is second to that, especially since beauty is in the eye of the beholder and everyone has different tastes. My main goal is to stay away from conventional, classical beauty standards. The ideal female face is supposed to be oval shaped (and if the faces aren't, then hairstyles and contouring are used to make them look like it), with ideal eye, mouth and nose shapes. What this amounts to in practice is an overabundance of very similar faces with differences being only in coloring, makeup and some minor flaws (if allowed). So here I am, trying to throw in as many shapes as possible.

It has been some time sine I've actually played Skyrim (rather than getting stuck on making presets), so when I thought of Aela the Huntress my mental image has been of a tough as nails wild fighter of a woman. Something like the preset I did for Mjoll (and have been contemplating as a possible Aela). Imagine my surprise then, as I imported the vanilla Aela preset into RaceMenu to find a wisp of a woman with a pretty face hidden under all that paint and dirt. No matter my changes and personal opinion on how she should look like, Aela simply didn't want to be pushed into the shape I had of her in my mind. So I gave up and went with it.

Then again, what do you do, if you are a slim woman with a pretty face? What if the outside doesn't match the inside, where the beast slumbers? In the end Aela ended up looking as I've imagined Angua from Discworld to look like. Just the eyes of a hungry wolf and a small sneer to make you uneasy about accepting any invitations to dinner (and to make sure you always know when she is at your back).

About Pictures:

No ENB, Clockwork Castle
I'm using my own version of Real Girls (still alpha version) + Mature Skin
age maps + Specaular maps from Total Character Makeover
KS hairdo's + Salt & Wind
The Eyes of Beauty
A lot of different makeup/skin flaw mods

Disclaimer:

None of my presets were made from photos of real people or using presets from other authors, but it may be, that some will remind you of somebody - coincidences happen. (Or my mind has played tricks on me; two of my presets did unintentionally end up looking like actresses from the old days from my country. Thus the disclaimer.)