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I meant to upload this last weekend after I drew it, but I stuck it in my sketchbook and forgot. XD

In our book-in-progress, ~kasihamashaki and I have reached a part where the difference between my characters Diana and Velan are really being highlighted. Due to unusual circumstances, they're inhabiting the same body, and sometimes it may be impossible to tell which consciousness is currently dominant unless one's familiar with the character's carriage, mannerisms, speech patterns...just their all-around selves. Thankfully they're extremely different, but I got to thinking in chorus the other day about how their characteristics might affect their posture (and this applies to other people's posture, too. I was just thinking of Diana and Velan at the time.) So I though I'd practice.

But stupid me decided to leave my sketchbook at home that day, so this is drawn on the back of my math progress report. -.-

ANYWAY, it's funny how not until senior year do all my classes begin to connect. In math, we were talking about normal curves and data distributions; around the same time, the topic came up in psychology. Now in psychology we're talking about the nervous system, and that's part of the tissues unit we're doing in anatomy. And, of course, anatomy is always essential in art. The main example is this posture study - I take what I know about the characters and use skills from psychology to identify their traits, characterization I learned in drama to apply it to the character's persona, and anatomy and art knowledge to put it down on paper. Cool, huh? I think so.

But what I originally meant to include here was the description of the actual study, not my ramblings on school. How about I do that now?

"Perfect" Posture

I started off with an example of "perfect" posture - feet flat on the ground, head up and staring straight ahead, shoulders and back straight and perpendicular. A chiropractor's dream. This example and the ones of Diana and Velan are sitting on a 90 degree flat, hard surface, about the height of the average school chair. Mostly I drew this so I'd have something to compare Velan and Diana to.

Diana

Diana is small. And short. And, when alone, withdrawn. So we have her pulled in on herself (which is characteristic of girls - learned that in drama ), hunched slightly, in a defensive position. Her feet are pulled back and crossed at the ankle because, frankly, they don't entirely reach the ground. (She's about my height, and my feet do the exact same thing.) Her head is slightly tilted down so her eyes are tilted upwards in order to look straight ahead. This can be due to defensiveness, being accustomed to looking up at people taller than herself, ect. She's forward in her seat, mostly to help her feet touch the floor.

Velan

Velan OWNS this. He's the alpha of Shadowed Moon, the most wanted lupine criminal in the Human Realm, and can be the most dangerous person around if you piss him off. He asks you to do something, you do it. So he's extremely confident. This gives him an open way of sitting, very relaxed, stretched out. (Guys are also typically more spread out in manner.) It doesn't help that he's extremely tall, and his long legs would be all folded up if he sat in the "perfect" posture. His head is tilted back and his eyes have to look downward to look straight ahead. Like Diana, this could be a result of his height, but also of his lofty demeanor (see what I did there? lol). If I could give Velan's posture a caption, it would be "I got dis."

Of course, circumstance affects posture; a stressful situation, the presence of friends/enemies, level of awakeness, ect could all change how these characters and anyone else sit. The circumstance I imagine here is that the subject is alone, perhaps waiting on something, I don't know. I was pretty much going for average posture.

Anyway, wall of text is over. Sorry for the long description.

Velan, Diana, and art (c) me

May be moved to scraps soon.

Description
I meant to upload this last weekend after I drew it, but I stuck it in my sketchbook and forgot. XD

In our book-in-progress, ~kasihamashaki and I have reached a part where the difference between my characters Diana and Velan are really being highlighted. Due to unusual circumstances, they're inhabiting the same body, and sometimes it may be impossible to tell which consciousness is currently dominant unless one's familiar with the character's carriage, mannerisms, speech patterns...just their all-around selves. Thankfully they're extremely different, but I got to thinking in chorus the other day about how their characteristics might affect their posture (and this applies to other people's posture, too. I was just thinking of Diana and Velan at the time.) So I though I'd practice.

But stupid me decided to leave my sketchbook at home that day, so this is drawn on the back of my math progress report. -.-

ANYWAY, it's funny how not until senior year do all my classes begin to connect. In math, we were talking about normal curves and data distributions; around the same time, the topic came up in psychology. Now in psychology we're talking about the nervous system, and that's part of the tissues unit we're doing in anatomy. And, of course, anatomy is always essential in art. The main example is this posture study - I take what I know about the characters and use skills from psychology to identify their traits, characterization I learned in drama to apply it to the character's persona, and anatomy and art knowledge to put it down on paper. Cool, huh? I think so.

But what I originally meant to include here was the description of the actual study, not my ramblings on school. How about I do that now?

"Perfect" Posture

I started off with an example of "perfect" posture - feet flat on the ground, head up and staring straight ahead, shoulders and back straight and perpendicular. A chiropractor's dream. This example and the ones of Diana and Velan are sitting on a 90 degree flat, hard surface, about the height of the average school chair. Mostly I drew this so I'd have something to compare Velan and Diana to.

Diana

Diana is small. And short. And, when alone, withdrawn. So we have her pulled in on herself (which is characteristic of girls - learned that in drama ), hunched slightly, in a defensive position. Her feet are pulled back and crossed at the ankle because, frankly, they don't entirely reach the ground. (She's about my height, and my feet do the exact same thing.) Her head is slightly tilted down so her eyes are tilted upwards in order to look straight ahead. This can be due to defensiveness, being accustomed to looking up at people taller than herself, ect. She's forward in her seat, mostly to help her feet touch the floor.

Velan

Velan OWNS this. He's the alpha of Shadowed Moon, the most wanted lupine criminal in the Human Realm, and can be the most dangerous person around if you piss him off. He asks you to do something, you do it. So he's extremely confident. This gives him an open way of sitting, very relaxed, stretched out. (Guys are also typically more spread out in manner.) It doesn't help that he's extremely tall, and his long legs would be all folded up if he sat in the "perfect" posture. His head is tilted back and his eyes have to look downward to look straight ahead. Like Diana, this could be a result of his height, but also of his lofty demeanor (see what I did there? lol). If I could give Velan's posture a caption, it would be "I got dis."

Of course, circumstance affects posture; a stressful situation, the presence of friends/enemies, level of awakeness, ect could all change how these characters and anyone else sit. The circumstance I imagine here is that the subject is alone, perhaps waiting on something, I don't know. I was pretty much going for average posture.

Anyway, wall of text is over. Sorry for the long description.

Velan, Diana, and art (c) me

May be moved to scraps soon.