Soccer Kick Pose Reference
Soccer Kick: a soccer pose reference of a shot's follow-through, right leg swung high across the body, toes pointed, arms wide, torso leaning back.
- Sports Poses
- sports
- soccer
- football
- kicking
- follow through
Free for personal and commercial use (CC0). License details
How to draw the Soccer Kick pose
The ball has already gone. This is the instant after the instep strike, when the right leg keeps travelling up and across the front of the body, long through the knee with the toes still pointed. No ball is modelled, so place it in your drawing well ahead of the foot, flying toward wherever the eyes are looking.
Everything else is counterbalance. The planted left leg is slightly bent, absorbing the swing, and it carries all of the weight. The torso leans back a little and twists with the leg, which keeps the centre of mass over the standing foot as the heavy kicking leg swings forward. The arms fling wide: the left arm forward and out, the right arm back, opening the chest like a tightrope walker's pole. The head follows the shot, eyes fixed on the ball's path.
When the pose goes wrong, it is usually one of three things. A kicking leg drawn bent at ball height freezes the moment of impact rather than the follow-through and loses the sweeping arc. Arms dangling by the sides drop the balance story and make the player look about to fall. A torso pitched forward over the ball contradicts the lean that a high follow-through forces. The front view shows the leg crossing the body and the wide spread of the arms; the side view shows the backward lean against the raised leg; the three-quarter and low angles give the most energetic sports-poster version.
Football club art, match illustrations, children's book sports scenes and animation key poses for a goal all start here. In Edit this pose, lower the kicking leg to hip height for a low drive, or swing it higher and further across for a volley, and mirror the figure to make a left-footed player.
Soccer Kick 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 soccer player in the follow-through of a shot, right leg swung high across the body with toes pointed, planted left leg slightly bent, left arm flung forward and right arm back for balance, torso leaning back and twisting, eyes following the ball, full body, plain background.
Midjourney
full body soccer player follow-through after a powerful shot, right leg swung high across the body, pointed toes, planted left leg slightly bent, arms flung wide, torso leaning back and twisting, eyes on the ball flight, plain background --ar 2:3 --style raw
Stable Diffusion
1person, full body, soccer, football, kicking, follow through, leg up, raised leg, pointed toes, standing on one leg, arms spread, leaning back, twisting torso, looking ahead, sportswear, dynamic pose, from front, plain background, simple background
Negative prompt
bent kicking leg, kicking leg low, arms hanging down, torso leaning forward, both feet on ground, standing still, extra legs, extra limbs, deformed feet, deformed hands, bad anatomy, 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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