Sitting on a Ledge Pose Reference
Sitting on a Ledge: a sitting on edge pose reference with hands planted beside the hips, legs dangling at different swings and the head turned to the view.
- Sitting Poses
- sitting
- ledge
- legs dangling
- rooftop
- relaxed
Free for personal and commercial use (CC0). License details
How to draw the Sitting on a Ledge pose
The wall, rooftop or table under this figure is not modelled. Imagine its edge running straight beneath the back of the thighs; the feet hang free, the lowest point about 18 cm above the floor, so when you place the figure in a scene, draw the edge first and make sure it sits high enough for the legs to swing.
Weight rests on the sitting bones and the two hands. The arms are straight and the palms press down on the edge right beside the hips, which pushes the shoulders up toward the ears. That small shrug is the detail that tells a viewer the person is propping themselves, not just resting. The torso tips forward a little over the edge, and the head turns to look out across the imagined view, giving the upper body a gentle twist above a mostly square pelvis.
Below the knees the legs should disagree. One shin swings forward, the other hangs back under the ledge, which breaks the silhouette into an easy zigzag. Drawing both legs straight and parallel is the classic mistake; it makes the figure look pinned to the wall like a doll. The other two are hands floating beside the body instead of touching a surface, and a back held upright like someone at a desk. The side view shows the forward lean and the two shin angles most clearly. The back view, handy for a character seen from behind gazing over a city, shows the shoulders lifted above the planted hands, and the low angle gives the familiar look up at someone perched overhead.
Rooftop panels, summer pier scenes, a character waiting on a wall at sunset or a kid on a kitchen counter all start from this shape. In Edit this pose, swap which shin swings forward or turn the head the other way to aim the gaze at a different part of your background, and keep both hands on the line of the edge.
Sitting on a Ledge pose prompt
Copy a prompt for your AI image generator. Pair it with the OpenPose skeleton in ControlNet so the generated character matches this exact pose.
General prompt
A person sitting on the edge of a wall with legs dangling, hands planted on the edge beside the hips with straight arms, shoulders slightly raised, one shin swinging forward and the other hanging back, torso leaning forward a little, head turned to look out at the view, plain background.
Midjourney
full body person perched on a ledge, legs dangling, one shin forward one back, straight arms with hands planted beside hips, shoulders slightly raised, leaning forward, head turned looking into the distance, relaxed rooftop mood, plain background --ar 2:3 --style raw
Stable Diffusion
1person, full body, sitting, sitting on ledge, legs dangling, hands on ledge, straight arms, shoulders raised, leaning forward, looking away, head turned, looking into distance, relaxed, side view, plain background, simple background
Negative prompt
legs straight and parallel, hands floating, upright stiff back, feet on ground, crossed legs, sitting on chair, extra legs, deformed hands, extra fingers, bad anatomy, cropped feet, blurry
OpenPose skeleton for ControlNet
Load the PNG into a ControlNet OpenPose unit (preprocessor: none), or import the JSON into an OpenPose editor.
Free to use (CC0)
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