Chi An Kuei

According to this book there are three main face shapes moon, angular, and triangular. Each has it's own tendencies, as do the myriad angles and creases within them--there's tendencies for those with large round eyes, and tendencies for those with rectangular eyes. "Rectangular eyes?" you say? I did too. I wasn't sure I'd ever seen examples of half the shapes described, but then I started looking at a single feature on a face and realized I'd been missing all the details at what makes up a face. Sort of a "can't see the forest for the trees" in reverse. So I won't remember the meanings, but if some face sketch artist asks me to describe someone, maybe I'll be better at describing one then I would have been before reading this book.… (meer)