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Face

A human face as a drawn subject. Inherited as a bare label from the repo's illustrative style data. THIN ROW, and the thinness is the honest finding: the only external attestation found is oblique - a feature on eyes notes that in a realistic portrait the eye "is the face element that has to convey all the expressiveness of the person being portrayed", which presumes the face as a subject without describing it. No meaning is sourced, so no can_symbolize edge exists. See also the Portrait entry in this batch's response: 'portrait' was NOT registered as a motif.
Thin
Low confidenceresearched

0 attested · 3 promoted2 sources · T2

What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
anatomy
Variants
frontal face; three-quarter face; face in profile
Common styles
illustrative; realism
Common themes
identity

Provenance

2 resolved

  • The eye and its expressions in tattoos (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Maggie Whales, Tattoo Life

    Tattoo magazine feature. Verbatim: "One of the most common subject in tattooing is certainly the occult eye, the one that sees all and is associated with Freemasonry." (the singular 'subject' is the source's own); "But even earlier the eye was present in Christian iconography, placed within the triangle with reference to the Holy Trinity."; "With a tear, it is very commonly used in the Chicano style to indicate repentance."; and "In some Neo Traditional interpretations, the eye loses all human connotations and becomes a door to alien souls, devoid of feeling." It also states the plurality principle outright: the eye "can be depicted in many different and personal ways, depending on the style of the artist and on the will and meaning that the wearer wishes to give it." For the face it records that "in a realistic portrait, it is the face element that has to convey all the expressiveness of the person being portrayed".

    industry source · published 2022-05-03 · retrieved 2026-08-30

  • vibe-ink-flow frontend/src/data/stylePreviewData.ts (in-repo style vocabulary)

    Tier 3

    VIBE TATTOOS (this repository)

    NOT A WEB SOURCE - read in-repo on 2026-08-28, not fetched. The file names 19 style labels including realism-black-gray, realism-full-color, horror-realism, nightmare-realism and photorealistic as sibling entries. It establishes only that these labels exist in this codebase, not that they name distinct styles. Cited by the split-derived theme, mood and palette nodes created to decompose the fused labels per IMPLEMENTATION_NOTE section 5.

    internal expert · retrieved 2026-08-28

Related concepts

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Frequently used in · 2

  • → outgoingIllustrativeStyleThin
    strength 0.75promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_face ('illustrative'); styles_seed.common_motifs of style_illustrative ('face'). Asserted independently from both ends of the relation; deduped to one edge. Confidence is the LOWER of the contributing rows, not the higher. Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_eye; source_repo_style_preview_data; source_tattoolife_illustrative_dark; source_tattooing101_styles_list; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.75 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by TWO parent rows, one from each endpoint's own association column; the pack's scale reads 0.75 as 'frequent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingRealismStyleAttested
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_face ('realism'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_eye; source_repo_style_preview_data; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Associated with · 1

  • → outgoingIdentitySubthemeThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_face ('identity'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_eye; source_repo_style_preview_data; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.