Someone on Discord wanted to know how far Soldier: 76′s hairline had receded. I did the math for them.
We know that canonically, Jack is 6’1", or 73 inches tall. In art, it’s generally accepted that the ideal male proportions are that the body is 7.5 heads tall.
This means the head is .13 of an ideally proportioned human male’s height.
Assuming, then, that he’s ideal male proportions (which I am because SEP fuckery), Jack’s head is 9.49" inches from crown to chin.
Typically,
in art, you can split the face into quarters: chin to nose, nose to
outer corner of the eyes, eyes to hairline, hairline to crown.
Jack’s face isn’t exactly perfectly symmetrical along those dimensions. He’s got more chin. I eyeballed it, and assigned that extra .5 inch to his chin, and equalized across the other three portions.
This gives him, in his prime, 2.25 inches from the outer corner of his eyes to his hairline, and from his hairline to his crown.
Comparing
the shots of Jack’s younger and older models, we have a convenient
sharpening of the brow curve RIGHT about where his youthful hairline
started in the ¾ view.
In older Jack, you can figure where his hairline starts from the
part in his hair. Which shows his hairline has receded just about
halfway up from its starting point. Or, 1.13 inches. Or, 2.86 centimeters.
I know you all needed to know this.
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