Both Palms UpPose Reference
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Both Palms Up keeps the elbows near the waist and turns two open, spread hands upward in front of the body, a calm offering or presenting gesture.
Tags: upper bodyhand gesturepalms upopen hands
How to draw the Both Palms Up pose
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Read it as two L shapes. The upper arms hang almost straight down with the elbows brushing the waist, and the forearms come forward level or a hair above, angling outward from each other so the hands open wider than the body. Each forearm rotates fully so the inner side faces the ceiling and the palm lies open to the sky. The wrists drop back a touch, and the fingers fan loosely apart with a soft curve at every joint, thumbs angling out to the sides, so each hand looks open but not stiff. Nothing is held; the shoulders sit relaxed and level, the head faces straight ahead, and the weight rests on the left leg below the frame.
The palm is the shape to get right. Draw it as a shallow box with a thick pad at the thumb and a lighter one along the little-finger side, then fan the fingers from the knuckle line. From the front the fingers point toward you and shorten sharply, so the hands look wide and short. The side view from the figure's left gives the cleanest silhouette: a vertical upper arm, a right-angle elbow and a horizontal forearm ending in a flat hand. The high angle shows the palms fully, ideal for studying finger spacing, while the low angle shows the backs of the hands and the underside of the forearms. Watch the twist of the forearm; the inner forearm, not the back of the wrist, faces up.
More on angles and common mistakes
Hands that hang near the hips make the gesture look limp, palms turned toward each other read as carrying an invisible box, and fingers glued together or locked dead straight look stiff. Hunching the shoulders turns it into a shrug, which is a different message. The palms up pose works for presenting, asking, pleading, receiving a gift, checking for rain and magic effects where something hovers over the hands, which you would add yourself.
In Edit this pose, switch both hands to the relaxed preset so the fingers curl further, and the open offer becomes two cupped hands holding imagined water.
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Both Palms Up pose prompt
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General prompt
Waist-up view of a person standing upright with elbows close to the waist, both forearms reaching forward and slightly outward, palms turned up with fingers loosely spread and softly curved as if offering something, relaxed shoulders, looking straight ahead, plain background.
Midjourney
upper body, person offering with both palms up, elbows by the waist, forearms forward and slightly apart, fingers loosely spread, relaxed shoulders, calm face looking ahead, plain background --ar 4:5 --style raw
Stable Diffusion
1person, upper body, palms up, open hands, outstretched hands, loosely spread fingers, elbows bent, forearms forward, offering, presenting, relaxed shoulders, looking at viewer, front view, plain background, simple background, natural proportions
Negative prompt
palms down, palms facing each other, hands at hips, shrugging, raised shoulders, holding object, wrong finger count, fused fingers, extra fingers, extra arms, twisted forearm, bad anatomy, deformed hands, blurry, nsfw
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