Lying, Legs UpPose Reference

Everything happens at one hinge. The pelvis and shoulders stay grounded and the thighs fold up from the hips until the legs stand vertical, a right angle with the torso that turns the whole figure into a capital L. The knees are straight and the inner legs touch from thigh to ankle, with the ankles flexed. On the floor the arms reach out past shoulder height into a wide V, palms up, the backs of the hands resting on the ground. The head lies flat, only about 7 cm high, while the centre of mass rises to roughly 19 cm because the legs carry so much of the body's length into the air.

For the cleanest read, use the side view from the figure's left: a perfect L with the arm pointing back past the head along the floor. The front and back views look straight along the torso, so the legs become two stacked columns rising out of a small oval of hips or head, with the arms spread like a horizon line. These are the views where foreshortening is extreme, and the trick is to draw the soles or the crown as the nearest shape and let everything else shrink behind it. The high angle tips the legs toward the viewer and tangles them with the torso, so treat it as a secondary check.