Pointing at ViewerPose Reference

The lean starts low. The hips slide back over straight legs and the torso pitches forward through the lower and middle back, so by the shoulders the body is tipped roughly 45 degrees toward the lens. To keep the face on the viewer, the neck bends strongly backward and the head lifts on top of it, which compresses the back of the neck and pushes the chin out. The right arm comes straight forward from the shoulder with the elbow locked and the wrist in line. Only the index finger is extended; the middle, ring and little fingers curl into the palm and the thumb folds over them, making a small fist behind the pointer. The left arm hangs loose from a dropped shoulder, its relaxed fingers drifting near the front of the thigh, just inside the waist-up frame.

From the front this is a foreshortening exercise. The arm collapses into a stack of overlapping shapes: fingertip, knuckle box, wrist, elbow, shoulder ball, each one larger the closer it is to you. Draw the fingertip first and largest, then tuck the curled fist behind it, and let the head peek above the hand. The side view from the figure's left gives you the opposite: one long horizontal arm line set against the diagonal of the back, the clearest way to check the angle of the lean. The high-angle view looks down across the bent back and rounded shoulders, while from the low angle the straight arm rises past the head with the fingertip at the top of the frame.