[Amante Reale]

Javier, you’re way too quick to call something a mistake. If you go from the top of the skull and divide in halves, or you go from the hairline and divide in thirds, everything basically falls on (or around) the same place. Since we’re not going to be drawing “perfectly average” people, the exact pixel onto which the bottom of the nose falls doesn’t really matter, because no-one has “perfect third” and “perfect half” faces.

You can see here I divided the face along the hairline, brows, eyes, nose, mouth and chin with measurement lines either in yellow or red. As you can see, red lines fall in place as expected using halves, and yellow lines fall in place as expected using thirds. And they both do a good job in giving a sense of where things should be.

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