Robert V Smith describes, in his book Graduate Research: A Guide for Students in the Sciences, there are three general types of research advisers:

The "collaborator type" may be younger scholars who are "keen to have their students achieve quick results" (p.26). Because they are seeking promotion and tenure, they may be interested in joint publication.

The "hands-off type" advisers may be at mid-career and therefore somewhat less interested in quick results; on the other hand, they may allow a student more time than necessary to finish the dissertation. However, they may also provide good counsel.

"Senior scientist types" are well along in their careers and thus able to provide experienced advice. If the senior scientist is a gifted researcher, the young advisee may become part of a priceless master-student relationship. But there is the danger that if scholarship has outdistanced an older scholar, the student may acquire outdated research skills.

David, Madsen. Successful Dissertations and Theses. A Guide to Graduate Student Research from Proposal to Completion. Second Edition.

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Even in the Arts, there exist incarnations that bear uncanny reseblance these three types. I know which type mine is.

The chocolates are happy things from the flatmate - they were a surprise, along with a packet of Kitkat, Twisties and Jack and Jill potato chips. Brain food.

The studio has been more of a home than ever before: perhaps the only item lacking is a mattress or sleeping bag; while my apartment feels un-lived in - like a hotel room. It feels good, to walk away from my desk as dawn breaks, knowing that some form of productivity has occurred while my skin grows more pallid from a lack of sunlight. I cannot wait to get back to the sunny island I call home.