#head shapes

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[alloru]

please stand by, I'm still working on my wips!

my colouring and shading part takes the longest by far, so you'll have to wait a little longer for me to get the current pieces done unfortunately. have some more expression practice for your patience!

I have taken all your advice for head-shapes to heart by the way! I'm still in the process of searching out a bunch of juicy references so I can binge-study all of them in a couple of days :D

have a nice next 24 hours everybody! have something to drink and enjoy yourself!!

[istj-hedonist]

Visual Typing - MBTI Head Shapes

After collecting more evidence over the past two years here is an updated chart of the different head/face shapes for the MBTI types.

the general markers:

1. Introverts have thin faces, extroverts have wide faces (the only exception being xSTJs, more on that later), scientific studies about this:

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65358-6

- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886916309096

2. xxTPs have very rectangular faces with pronounced square chins. ExTPs in particular are prone to bulldog-like underbites, giving a stereotypically masculine appearance

3. xxFJs have smaller underveloped jaws with small chins, giving a triangular/ heart-shape, feminine appearance

just a hypothesis but 2. and 3. are probably related to testosterone-influence during embryonic development hence the correlation for both appearance and gendered character traits (feeling vs thinking, emotion vs ratio)

4. *for some reason if someone has this specific long jaw misalignment it -has- to be a male ISFJs (photo example before and after lefort 1 jaw surgery). (like, not -all- male ISFJs have it, but if someone has it you can bet it’s an ISFJ). haven’t seen this in INFJs or in female ISFJs yet

5. Te/Fi-users have average jaw sizes and therefore go more into the circle/oval direction. xSTJs in particular often have “egg-shape” heads. xNTJs look somehow more triangular than their Si/Ne-counterparts but still more egg-ish than xxFJs.

behold, an xSTJ:

6. for why ISTJ and ESTJ are “switched” in head width and they are the only MBTI pair that is an exception from the I/E-width-rule I only have this half-baked explanation that it’s not about introversion/extroversion in a social sense but more in a “openness to sensations” sense that ESTJs with their inf Fi are more stubborn and actually more withdrawn than ISTJs(??)

7. ENTJs have the most pronounced foreheads you’ve ever seen

8. fat can disguise the head shape, but not always. e.g. see those two examples of ExFJs before and after weightloss. the chin is still sharp and triangular even when overweight:

meanwhile the rectangle shape of this ISTP only becomes visible with lower body fat:

9. overdeveloped masseter muscles can distract from the chin shape. e.g. take this picture of young INFP Brad Pitt. one could easily fall into the trap thinking he has an IxTP head shape when in reality his chin has a normal Te-user size and it’s just his masseter muscles distracting from the shape. the curved indentations between chin and muscle are a good clue. (compare it to pictures of him being older with less pronounced masseter muscles, then his real chin shape is more obvious)

comparing with ISTP Sigourney Weaver, her rectangle head shape is visible during all ages regardless of muscle mass

as a novice those differences can be hard to track. train your eye by observing photos of people during different age stages, try to imagine the face without any soft tissue and bone only.

[firespirited]

I don’t have proper photos of the finished doll yet as she needs lips and better lighting but, here, have some work in progress pictures of Gradient Blue Mbili (aka don’t make me use the word ombré when you mean camaieu) using leftovers from the Catrine reroot. I used black as a seventh colour at the back as I didn’t have enough ink blue to do more than a stripe. I also realized about 60% through that I did not have as much cobalt leftover as i had thought (actually enough for like 3 plugs) which was the impetus to sew all of the wigs to raise money for hair to finish this which is circular craft logic insanity and happens more often than i’ll admit.

Also I have so much doll hair but I keep ending up without the specific colour for the specific design that’s already half finished.

I’m brilliant at seeing a situation and knowing within seconds how many ways it could go wrong, I can look at a product design and see within seconds the flaws and limitations and ways to misuse the product, I can tell from people’s use of language the things they are hiding or trying to say without actually saying but i can’t plan ahead for a craft project or food plans without extremely detailed checklists.

I mean I’ve done over 150 full reroots and have been rerooting since 2002 but have a checklist I now follow religiously because of too many “oops” half way through.

Here it is

remove original hair

photos of bald doll's problem areas

optional/ wash doll if glue head

boil head. do not touch with anything until cool as it will scrape the paint decals.

optional/ glue areas that can be fixed, wait 24h

optional/ paint scalp (acrylic)

optional/ seal scalp with matt varnish (for acrylic)

measure, cut and seperate hair hanks with twist ties and crocodile clips

bulk reroot

detail reroot (front line and parting)

check for thin areas

add glue, wait 24h

recheck for thin areas

trim

guess “check that you have enough of all the colours” was missing LMAO.

It’s a sidepart gradient reroot using the same semi circle system as for Licca or MH (see my previous posts for the diagrams) which means that 6 colours are visible on one side of the face, 5 on the other. The middle colour (the pale turquoise) is split 4mm for one side of the parting and 2mm for the other.

I made the portions too wide at the parting which means only 4 of 6 are properly visible before the drop off - This is because monster high heads or liccas are mostly spherical and barbies are ovoid.

So please note if you’re doing a 5-6 colour gradient reroot for Barbies: 5 or 6mm at the front but the parting portions need to be 3-4mm apart.

Editing to add that I use E6000 for fixing vinyl holes and UHU all purpose (not the green version) to seal the hair in.

[nekogrix-blog]

how to avoid a "same face syndrome" (or not, idk)

[niintendoqs]

Head structure ref for my gay babes! Landon (left) has a round, short face and Mortimer (right) has a long slender face. I want to start making my human art more diverse since all humans are different! sO I decided a good place to start was head shapes!

[rainabic]

Different lighting with different head shapes and drawing different kinds of eyes.

I don’t really have the time or money to take official art classes, so I’m trying out things that I think art teachers would have me do. Kinda like giving myself homework of how to work with shapes and lights first. 

Shading isn’t really something that is apparent in much of my art and I think that’s why it looks so..... lifeless to me. But anyway. Here’s what I did for my first assignment. I did different eyes shapes too just for fun.

my DA: https://rainabic.deviantart.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rainabic/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTxfU55SBgvjE9Nl1e2TXgA

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