Anime Sitting Poses
Struggling to find the right anime sitting poses? These squatting, sitting, or kneeling these easy poses will help you get the ideas you need to draw your favorite sitting boy or girl characters.
• Anime Kneeling • Anime Sitting/Squatting
Kneeling Poses
Anime Sitting (and Squating) Poses
Sitting Drawing Tips
Backs curve
A common mistake when drawing a sitting character is many artists forget to curve the back. Instead most leave that natural S curve (or flatness) in the spine. This is incorrect. Remember that the back of a sitting character (unless they are leaning back on their arms) will almost always bend forward in a C curve.
Place your arms correctly
Be mindful of support when making characters sitting. Do they need their arms to hold their weight? If so, put the hands and arms somewhere logical. Remember to lock elbows out if they are posting on the arm. In other cases, the legs might take the full weight of the character and the upper limbs will need to rest on something. Sitting takes up a lot of space visually, so if you’re lost you can always hide the rear arm behind the body – save you some trouble XD
The belly scrunches together
While the spine takes a clean C curve, the belly generally folds into itself. Abs are rarely visible in a character that’s sitting with a relaxed spine (unless they are sitting straight up). The folding generally occurs with 2 visible sections below and above the belly button. The stomach doesn’t form a C opposing the spine, but rather a kind of rounded right angle at the belly button. If this sounds confusing I suggest you go find a mirror and watch how your midriff collapses inward as you fold your torso forward.
Legs squish together
When you’re doing squatting characters, be mindful that the meat of the calf and lower thigh will generally press together a great deal. As a landmark cue the heels should line up with the buttocks – with the calves especially pressed out.
A lot tends to get lost with kneeling
What I mean by this is a kneeling pose tends to block a lot of leg information. So don’t feel like you have to make every part of the leg visible when you’re doing a kneeling pose. There’s a good chance one quarter to even half of the leg won’t be visible as the thigh is block it. Just be mindful of line of sight. Maybe rather than fighting to draw every piece of the leg take this chance to draw less.
Happy drawing!