Guild Wars 2

TL;DR – What size should the head be, and is it best to go with the slimmest but bustiest body for sexiest female look?

So, with the sale, I bought 6 slots, and because all 9 of my 1 of each profession characters are male, I now want to make females for the looks. I plan to make Human Warrior, Thief, and Mesmer, and Norn Warrior, Thief and Mesmer, and give them all sexy armor. Reason being those professions are either the fastest or most useful professions. Warrior can run around the map the fastest with sword/warhorn and greatsword plus swiftness skills and bull’s charge, Thief has stealth and a speed signet and teleport skills. Mesmer can portal people, very useful. I thought about making the heavies Revenants, but I would have to level them in HoT areas to unlock Herald for Perma-Swiftness, which would be obnoxious, since I already have 7 professions I still need to max.

So, I need advice on body and head size:

Should I make their heads as big as possible, or exactly middle of the bar?

Human Body

A B C D E
F G H K L

There are 10 body options for human female, two rows of 5. Bring up your own char creation to follow along. After playing with it, I think B may be the best, as it has big boobs, and hourglass figure, and the butt is not too big. C has too thin arms. I thought D was the best until I saw B. Originally I thought F was the best, because it has the biggest bust and hourglass figure, but the booty is huge, and in skirt armor, like the chainmail she starts out in, it really sticks out and looks ridiculous, although it looks fine when you back up and view it in the starting armor. The other issue with F is, because booty and hips, does it clip with some armor? I’m leaning toward B, but I wanted thoughts before I decide.

Norn Body

A B C
D F G

A and D are the same bigger body, D is just more muscular looking. F and C are the same body, with C being more muscular. While I appreciate the muscular look, I like the even skin tone of A and F, so those are the two options for me unless someone can offer a compelling reason for D or C. So the choice is between A, which is bigger and thicker, or F, which is slimmer.

Actually, I just compared A and F on the Mesmer, and the bigger size definitely looks worse with the starting Mesmer dress because of the thickness.

So I guess there wasn’t much to ask, except basically what is the best head size?

That’s an opinion is it not?

If you really want some “data”, bring up photos of fashion models you find attractive and measure the ratio of head to body.

A rule of thumb I use is to increase the head size for shorter characters, decrease it a bit for taller ones. The reason is that the height slider is really a whole figure scaler, but human head sizes tend to remain fairly constant through the whole normal range of body sizes. I make the head narrower for slender characters, wider for stout ones.

To get your alts matching your aesthetics, you might want to make the alt, screenshot all the sliders (and face choice plus skin/hair/eye color choices too), go into game. Run around in circles a little, zoom in and out, decide if there’s anything you want to change. Note that down, then delete and remake using the screenshots as reference for sliders then tweak the sliders, screenshot the changes, and go in game again. Rinse and repeat until you are happy.

Instead of pictures of fashion models, I would look at an art primer. There will be advice/recommendations on relative head size and proportion there. I think it would be more relevant than static pictures, since you are actually composing figures yourself. As always, you are the best judge of what you like. Though your tastes may change/evolve over time.
Also, I really like what Donari wrote. It sounds like a good procedure for dialing in and finalizing your look, regardless of the method you choose to select it.

Bobblehead … drops mic

FWIW, I done a bit of drawing in my life. I use the method outlined in Donari’s second paragraph. Tedious, but worth it, given you may be looking at the toon for years. You can stand facing a wall, and use the wall to push your camera in for a closer view to examine details, but what really matters is how she looks with your normal camera position. Due to changes in LoD, these are not the same thing.

The actual daylight in the game is much harsher than that in creation (although the light in creation seems to change randomly), so beware the lighter skin tones and lighter blonde hairs. The next to last spot on the top row of skin tones still looks Caucasian in the game. More than 4 steps to the left starts to burn out badly in daylight.

As to head size, all the way to the right is still too small. But these things are relative, and you might feel you have a “big head” when looking at those around you. Donari is right in that the head scales with the height, so far to the right is the right choice for any height, but you might want to go a little smaller with a wider head, as that affects our perception more than head height does (head height is all the art books care about, but they’re just parroting classic painters). And, the “proper” width is somewhere far into the left half of the scale, depending on which face you choose.

BTW, you are correct that ‘B’ is the hottest human figure. The breasts protrude forward more than any of the others, and she does look slimmer in the hips with armor on.