Classes gramaticais

aB l ing

fashion illustration

Posing Dynamics
All three figures have the same low shoulder and high hip side. The arms and legs change but not the core torso pose. This presents continuity in a design grouping on a page.

Bend or
Crunch Side of Pose

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The stretch in the torso is on the left side of the pose. Same core torso pose for all three.

Low
Shoulder
Side

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Extended or
Strength Side of Pose
High
Hip
Side

Bend or crunch side of this pose.

Static or Nonactive Pose

Torso Active Posing
No
"Posed"
Angles

Supporting
Leg

Rule
Breaker
"Pose"

This left, walking foreshortened leg is the non-support leg of this pose, as it is not touching the "floor."

Up
Down

The Runway
Walking Pose

Posing
Shortcut
Same exact torso pose flipped over
"reads"
differently but is still similar and easy to copy.

Posed But Static Angles

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Static pose means no angles or action in the torso of this pose. Support leg for this pose means the weightbearing side of this pose.

To review, this type of pose can have the extended leg pushed back, behind the other supporting leg.
This bent back leg is drawn foreshortened from the knee down into its calf.

Weightbearing support leg shifts to other side in this pose.

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