Tadpole person

A tadpole person[1][2][3] or headfooter[4][5] is a simplistic representation of a human being as a figure without a torso, with arms and legs attached to the head.

Instead, they tend to draw the feature onto the tadpole person without modifying the figure.

It found that the basic vertical structure of a tadpole person isn't affected by a child's cultural background, though certain features still varied depending on their ecosocial context.

Children from educated and urban circumstances drew themselves with a wider range of facial expressions and a taller height, whereas children from rural and traditional contexts drew themselves with less facial expressions and a shorter height.

[9] The early work of Austrian artist Oswald Tschirtner often contained headfooters.

A children's drawing of a human figure represented a roughly hexagonal head with a smiley face, lacking a torso, with legs (and often arms) sprouting from its head. The figure also has two antennae sprouting from the top. The drawing is made on paper in simplistic lines with blue crayon.
An example of a tadpole person in a drawing by a child aged 4½.
A children's drawing of a family of three figures, where two are larger than the third, presumably representing two parents and their child. The figures have a circular head, lack a torso, and have arms and legs sprouting from the sides and bottom.
A child's drawing of a family, represented as tadpole people.
Detail of a medieval painting showing a figure consisting of a shrouded head with feet.
Detail of the centre panel of the triptych The Last Judgment by Hieronymus Bosch , showing a gryllos that bears resemblance to a headfooter.