Okay, this baby is one day old I happened to find out. You can still see the internal bleeding on its cheeks where the mother's vagina crushed it on egress. Not cute. The way the arms twist back looks like a bizarre contortion, as if the arms are lifeless things from the shoulder down. Not cute. Those close set, black little beady eyes, the crinkle in the chin, the half mangy head of unfull hair? Not cute. I took the first 4 babies off of Google Image search, so these babies are the ones most linked to by other people's websites, so in theory, are the most popular baby pictures on The Internet. Hopefully example 2 won't be as butt ugly:
HOLY Hell that's ugly! The baby's face is set in a half snarl, and it looks like someone ran into it face first with a truck. Just look at the way the knuckles on those fingers dimple inward like it had holes instead of joints. :shudders: Add the swollen cranium, narrow and thin like a potato, not round. Plus the nose of a pug dog. But I must be brave... there are 2 more pictures to view...
Oh gods... more of that bloody red skin blotches. There is so much fat around the eyes they crinkle shut. The nostrils are flaring, and the mouth looks like its left side got slashed open a few more inches wider. There's that greasy mop of half-hair. The arms look disjointed, the hands so bizarre, not even wrists on them, and weirdly long thumbs. Add the frog-like pot belly, and folded legs, and you've got yourself one ugly baby. Not cute, not cute!
A smiling happy baby! How can you not find this utterly adorable, 'dora? Well first off, the nose is still squashed against the face. The jowls hang low around the whiskerbreak, and the head is still shaped like a potato, not a sphere. The chin is wrinkled, the eyes are close-set, and the creepy little thing doesn't... have... any teeth. >.<
Can you see my problem here??
Babies are not... cute. Just... oh my gods are they not cute. They make ugly noises, they look ugly, they do ugly things, they think ugly thoughts. They're raw, primal, bare, insidious, driven, robotic, but not cute. When we as artists draw something cute, we must throw out more traits in babies than we borrow. You might as well say we equate tree stumps with cute! Or train tunnels with sex! The crazy ideas people get in their heads these days. If babies are the definition of cute, then why are babies not cute?
To be not so mysanthropic, here is a picture of a baby ferret:
Ahh, now that's something I can look at. Still pretty ugly, but that's why the momma ferret keeps 'em well hidden in the dark until their fur grows out and their eyes open. You can see a nice spotting of fur on its head, nothing greasy or mangy. Though large, the nose is shapely not squished. The eyes are not crushed by baby fat. Comparatively this little baby is cuter than the above 3 combined.
To finish it off, this is something I consider cute.
Awww *glomps* the poor cute little guy, they broke his sign those awful people. Between the stripey lush tail, the pear shaped body, the giant, conical ears and the large, expressive eyes, this guy is the cutest thing, even if he's tired, sad and angry. In a way, that makes him even cuter. (The artist is Alquicira btw.)
Eeeee *dies of cuteness*