As You Might Be Aware I Have Big Feelings About All Besnouted Creatures, But Recently Something Has Been

As you might be aware I have big feelings about all besnouted creatures, but recently something has been grating on me. Sometimes, when people draw a snout animal, they draw the snout as a nose with the mouth as a separate entity underneath. This is a stylistic choice I greatly dislike because a snout or trunk is, by definition

A COMBINATION OF THE NOSE AND UPPER-LIP.

Three pictures of an elephant, a pig, and an aardvark. Their mouth parts have been traced in red to highlight the shape of their snouts.

You can see here that the snout is not a separate entity from the mouth in these mammals, but is a fleshy protuberance emanating from the upper jaw. 

Two drawings of an anthropomorphic pig face, one with the mouth separate from the nose, another with the mouth and nose incorporated as a proper snout. Both pigs are smiling, but the second seems somehow more genuine than the first. This image is captioned "It has a warmer feel."  Next given are two examples of anthropomorphic pigs, Peppa Pig, and Richard Scarry's Pig Will and Pig Won't. Peppa Pig is captioned "cold, unfeeling" and Richard Scarry's pigs are captioned "warm, compassionate."

You can see in this illustration how a more anatomically accurate snout position gives an anthropomorphic pig a degree of charm that an inaccurate snout position does not.

Snout positioning can make or break a character design for me.

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