Knee Up, Hand in HairPose Reference

Neither hand touches the floor, so the seat and feet do all the work. The left knee stands up with its foot flat near the body, and the right leg lies on the floor reaching forward and out, its knee loosely bent and rolled outward so the leg rests on its outer side. The right forearm lies across the top of the raised knee, wrist relaxed, the hand hanging loosely over the far side. Up top, the left arm opens the shape: the elbow swings up and out until it rises above the crown, and the hand comes back over to rest on the top of the head near the temple, fingers in the imagined hair. The head leans into that hand, tilting toward the raised elbow.

The silhouette is built from two loops stacked on one side. The low loop is the right arm over the knee; the high loop is the left arm framing the face. The front view shows both loops and the angle of the lifted elbow best. The three-quarter view from the front left puts the raised knee and draped forearm closest to the camera for studying how wrist, kneecap and shin overlap. From the figure's left side the bent elbow points straight at you and the face is partly hidden behind the forearm. The back view is the one that reveals how far the lifted elbow swings out past the shoulder line.