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Figure From Below: Low Angle Pose Reference
Reference photos of a standing figure seen from below: the camera low under the figure, looking up between forty and ninety degrees. Each photo is a real person at that angle.
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What changes at this angle
- When the person looks ahead, a plane of skin shows between the chin and the throat.
- The tops of the feet are hidden, and a lifted foot shows its sole.
- The horizon sits low in the frame or below it, so the figure stands against sky, ceiling or wall rather than floor.
- The belly and the underside of the ribcage face the viewer, and the chest recedes above them.
- When the person looks ahead, the ears sit lower than the eyes in the picture.
What goes wrong
- Drawing the face as seen from eye level on a figure photographed from below, so the head reads bowed on a body that towers over the viewer.
- Drawing the tops of the feet on a figure seen from below, so the feet read as seen from above and the figure seems to stand on a tilted floor.
- Drawing a floor plane behind a figure seen from below, so the figure reads as lying down or the ground seems to rise like a wall.
- Drawing the chest as the dominant mass of the torso from below, so the figure reads as seen from eye level and loses its height over the viewer.
Try it
Open the pose search at the same camera angle, looking up at the figure.