Seven and a half heads is still regarded as the most naturalistic but that is just a relative ruler by which you measure your own construct.
Many people who are life drawing use the eight head system since it is convenient to measure the head and compare any variance in the life models actual proportions without the half head complication in the middle of the seven and a half system.
Advanced artists might use the Cranial Index based on a sphere in relation to the back of the Cranium.
The top of the sphere being the top of the head and the bottom being in line with the bottom of the nose.
This has the advantage of being based on the boney reference points which are more stable than moveable navel and nipples in the heads systems.It can also be divided into five eyeballs in diameter.
Also a sphere instead of an oval head has less perspective complications.
Seven and a Half Heads: Richer
Eight Heads: Bammes
Cranial Index: Albinus(lower leg would be lengthened to fit grid)
In everyday life we tend to notice height over all but almost never head size as a relative proportion.
If two six foot people were standing next to each other and one was eight heads and the other seven heads most people would not even notice.
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