Clearly, there are many beautiful female NPC's in the game, and a deficit of the same of the other gender, which I'm going to take a wild guess and suppose is because they are designed by male developers. I would like to take a moment to suggest that Bethesda hire a non-heterosixual-male person specifically to design some male NPC's, that we might all benefit.

Or if you are on pc you could simply download a mod that makes em all purdy for you...

Give 'em a good voice and they'll look good. *points at Ulfric*

I don't think they ment to. Most of the men are workers, soldiers ect so they don't really have time to get all pretty while the women have a higher chance just my opinion tho

I just think that considering that the same is also true of pretty much every other game of the genre, that we may determine a pattern here. That said, I do enjoy the concept art of the Dohvakiin, as we all no doubt see behind this very page. If only it were translated in-game.

Elders Scrolls games have always been notorious for having the ugliest NPCs in general. It's clear all their money goes into world-building and not in creating good looking characters.

I think it's quite balanced. There are not so many pretty women in Skyrim as some are used to say and in other hand there are about the same number of handsome males. And I think there are enough non-heterosixual men developing NPCs. I found that out when I had http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Belrand as my follower and I talked to him when I had Amulet of Mara on my neck... that was traumatic and it became worse because I forget to remove the amulet before speaking to him too many times...