Creating a new pose

If you ever marveled at the drawings of comic book artists, this section of the book will definitely interest you because we are going to pose a full body in action. With Genesis we have a fully posable figure in Studio. All that we need is an idea for a scene. Let's try to make an illustration of a female surfer riding the waves.

Surfing is a very dynamic sport, and the need to keep the balance on the board requires assuming all kinds of poses that are visually very interesting. Because I'm not a surfer, I cannot count on my ability to recreate the right pose from my memory. In cases like this, a good approach is to find a photo or illustration that shows the person in the right pose, and use that image as a reference. With the Web available at our fingertips, there is plenty of material available that can be found with just a few clicks. I searched several sources, including commercial stock photo archives, and I found a very nice photo at deviantART (http...