https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=1929&p=28664#p28664
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Saturday, 11 February 2006, 12:33 AM


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I have had the same problem too often.

I think there are three problems the join together here.

One is that men and women are different in how their bodies move, but the base models are made as though both are almost the same.

The second is they we often do more work with the ladies then the men, so we get used to how to made them look good, but don't have as much pratice with the men.

The third is that the models of the ladies have much better support then do the men.  For example, in the third picture of the "Dark Hollywood series" that I made for a challenge at another site and will be posting here in the Valentine exhibition gallery soon, now that the challenge has ended; I had trouble getting the gent's expression to look manly and expressive at the same time.  While working on the expression, I noticed that he lack half of the standard facial morphs of his lady counterpart.

What I have done in the posing of men, has been to try to get it as right as possible, then to walk away.  Come back and look at it again.  If it still looks too feminine, start over.  Repeat until something better results.

Something that you can try, is using images of men (with the look you are seeking) as references.  Study the picture, then put it aside and pose your character, if it looks right, all is fine.  If it does not, then compare your work with the reference image and see if you can detect one or two major differences, put the reference picture aside and adjust the pose, repeat until you are happy.

The reason for putting the reference aside while working on the pose is so you will have to learn to visiulize the needed poses without relying on source to work from for every pose.


