Post #2: Human Skull (or, This Isn't Going Well)

At the beginning of the skull, I felt pretty good about the shapes and material, but it was laughably small. The first real challenge was to actually apply my measurements instead of being afraid to add mass. 

​After adding some mass and eyes, I felt much better about it. However, adding the eyes may have been premature; further measurement showed that it was still too small, particularly vertically (disheartening, since the other issue with it at this juncture is that it is uncommonly and unrealistically narrow. 
To fix this, I just added mass to the chin. This was a mistake, as you will see below. 

Skull with important - and flawed - contours outlined in red

Subject with respective contours outlined in blue

Both images overlaid with outlines to illustrate the dramatic inaccuracies

The main issue at this point is simply that everything on the front of the face needs moved down. Second to that, the top of the skull needs a bit of attention, as its current shape gives the impression that the face is slowly sliding off the front of the head. The jaw will also need addressed aggressively, although since the lower half of the face is so new, this is not surprising and a lower priority. 

Applying the rule of thirds seemed redundant since I just compared my skull to my actual head, but moving the eyes and nose down in this photo does immediately help it to look more human (although still bizarrely narrow. I keep measuring, but it keeps being SO NARROW!)
However, something about this skull still doesn't feel right -- aside from its lack of width. I have always been aware that my forehead is perhaps a bit large and wanted to see if the rough rule of thirds was actually what needed applied here.

Looks like the eyes and nose will need to move down even further than I initially anticipated in the previous mock-ups, since it looks like the top of my eye sockets (assuming they more or less align with my eyebrow) are significantly lower than 1/3 down from the top of my skull (even if the top line accounts for a bit of hair volume)

NEXT STEPS

1. Refine the top of the skull as much as possible. With some refining and adding a bit of mass at the top, it's possible the eyes won't need to move done quite as much.
2. Adjust eyes/nose. The cheekbones and temples may also need adjusted downwards, however, I'm not confident that they aren't contributing to the issue of the skull appearing squished from the front.
3. Widen the skull? I will retake my measurements horizontally and see if I can't uncover the issue with the skull being so narrow. If this doesn't work, I will compare it with a photo of my head. 
4. That jaw tho. While I understand that the lower half of the face is not expected to be as refined yet, its basic form needs a lot of work. The existing form is based more on how I thought it should look than an understanding of the measurements I took. It is very​ likely that I added too much mass when trying to correct the small size.