Tips for danganronpa Cosplayers: try and mimic one of the characters sprites from the games. It would make for a great picture and it's technically a canon facial expression
You can hold your (left) arm to your stomach and prop your (right) elbow on the hand of the left arm. While you do this, you can curl your (right) fingers. This can create a somewhat "annoyed" or "uptight" pose. I hope this makes sense and looks okay. >~
I'm terrible at posing, and I was laughing at one point in this video because the costume I just did was exactly the "boring character" problem you mentioned, lol! As someone also not very creative or photogenic in "posed" shots, these suggestions were also enormously helpful for me with giving me better ideas of what to do. Thanks!
I can't do a relaxed smile no matter what I do. It's because of the positioning of my top teeth, I can't even close my mouth... The struggle for me is very real
A unamused look XD since he seems to have the same strider look as Dirk 1st appearance in the comic so just an unamused but not like you didn't want to a picture.
The whole video, I was trying to figure out who you looked like...you definitely look like Jennifer Lawrence lol. Also, I'm terrible at posing so this was super helpful! I love shooting with photographers like you who know how to direct.
Thanks algoritm for blowing this video up wow, i remember searching hard for cosplay poses and I only knew lolita pose videos. I'm surprised that only now TH-cam recommends it to me when i didn't reall needed it right now.
LOVED this video! I rarely comment on videos but thanks so much for posting this coz I didn't have a clue!! I'd love some tips on Disney Princess posing please :)
I'd love if a person like you took Cosplay pictures of me 🥺 someone who talks to me, says what I should be doing, how I look in the camera and everything. But here in Germany most people just want to take a picture as quickly as possible and leave
I know this is an older video, but I really do appreciate this. Been starting to do a lot more cosplay photography and so many of my models get a bit lost on posing, so its great to have some more ideas to help them out with.
Thank's a lot for your advices. I'm photographer and i shoot most of the time with the people who don't know how to pose. And your video will help me to direct the people in the good way for the shoothing! ^^
My dad is a wedding photographer so I pretty much had to learn how to pose for pictures at a young age haha. All your tips are on point and even helped me. I have anxiety so when a camera is shoved in front of me I just kind of forget I'm trying to be ic and act like myself x.x
Great tips. I'm not much of a photographer myself, much more used to being in front of the camera. I see a lot of Cosplayers that just don't seem to know what to do with themselves. This is a great tut. Super clear and very easy to follow. Awesome tips for would be models. This is getting shared. :D
At my next con, I will be Uta (Tokyo Ghoul), Levi Ackerman/Heichou (Attack on Titan), and Yuri Plisetsky (Yuri on Ice), and all of them are pretty badass. This will be pretty challenging for me since I'm naturally very "cute" and short.
i am not a cosplayer but photographer but this video was useful for me, cause it helps to direct cosplayers during a shoot, for example which kind of poses the can do. Will check out your other videos as well and i subscribed now :)
I really liked your video, it's really helpfull! This is one thing that always get on my nerves, on people cosplay a cute character with no cute poses or a serious character with cute poses. And more, no feeling to it! Looks like they are posing because they need to, not because they want to. Or sometimes when they have the same expression to different characters. I think your video made people to think a little or to express more.
Wow this was incredibly helpful! Thanks so much for the tips. I’m cosplaying todoroki though so it’s hard to figure out what emotion to use but I think I’m getting it.
I am a pose Freak when it comes to cosplay, whether I am cosplaying or i am taking a picture of a cosplayer. And i must say, you executed this video VERY nicely. I couldnt agree more with you pov. Well Done! //claps
I have a question *3*!!! I'm cosplaying Ciel Phantomhive soon, and he's the type of serious,I tthink a bit of cocky kind off character. Do you have any tips maybe?
Try a pouty or apathetic facial expression. For the stance, stand with your feet about shoulder width apart. You can place one hand on your cane (if you include that in your cosplay) and the other on your hip or by your side. It might help to Google Ciel cosplayers and see how they posed. I hope this helped :3 (PS Black Butler is amazing!!!)
Love it!! :D Thanks!! I have a suggestion: poses for crossplay. Most of my female friends crossplay and we often try not to look too cute or pose like a girl, it's kinda hard sometimes
I'm getting ready for my first convention in years and like...WE HAVE LIKE HAD NO CLUE we just default to standing there and smiling so yeah. This is going to help for sure! Thank you so much.
I'm going to an anime convention this weekend, and I because there will most likely be photoshoots, I 'm glad I found this video. It was really helpful. ^^ Thank you for making this video. ;)
I am going to be cosplaying a male character. His name is Sollux Captor from a web comic called Homestuck. I can't really think of a pose for him. (I doubt I'll get asked for a picture though but just incase) You're also very pretty and your very helpful!
Well, sol is usually floating around XD maybe try using the jump method? I cosplay Karkat XD and John , the jump method would be great for sol tho , maybe add some cool effects in editing with the blue and red eyes and stuff :3
Thank you for the video this really helped! I'm being a character that flies at the next convention so the jumping part was really helpful. I can never get my jumps to look right so hopefully this will help.
this video was extremely helpful, thank you so much! do you think you'd be able to make a video that has poses for when your cosplaying with other people?
This is perfect! I mainly cosplay Vocaloids, and it is very hard to pose because if you're familiar with Vocaloid, you know the characters don't have much personality.
Can you do a video on how to pose your legs? I can never figure out how to have my legs when I'm doing photoshoots and they tend to look awkward. And also a video on posing while sitting / lying down?
I cosplayed as Hinata and the problem I had was with the pose. I only had two poses planned, one badass and one where you put your index fingers together. I had a kunai as a weapon and I ended up with similar pictures with everyone. Some people said that because of that one pose it almost looked photoshopped. How can anyone pose as a character like Hinata?? It's impossible!!
i know this is an old comment but hinata does have some poses where shes attacking try and look up pictures of that and try to practice those poses so you have an idea of what to do when getting a pic taken. Also for nearly an cosplay you can look up pics from the show manga comics or whatever your charecter is from and find images of what that charecter does. also if you see images you don't like of your cosplay think of what you'd like to change about it and think of a new pose from that.
Thank you so much for the tips! I am currently preparing for Anime Expo. Last year I was asked for a picture and I looked like a deer in the headlights. D: Thanks again!
Be sure to look up pictures of the character! You can find common poses they do there! For example, when I cosplay Tomura Shigaraki, I often reach out for the camera or scratch my neck, etc etc.
Well this is definitely a late response to say the least! But hopefully it'll help for future cosplaying! When you're standing and taking pictures, think shy. What do people do when they're shy? They kind of look down, put their arms in front of them, things of that nature. Maybe you could try looking down at your bear (assuming you have one) and just stand straight at the camera (kind of like this: www.deviantart.com/art/Cosplay-APH-Canada-285255878 ) If you can't really pose standing, try sitting cross legged and hugging your bear/letting it rest on your lap. Do kind of a slight smile, eyebrows up. Hope this helps! :)
Thanks for your helpful video. I need your expertise on posing as characters such as Esmeralda (with my tambourine), Batgirl (with my baterang), and soon I will be Elsa (with my very own suspended snowflake lol). Some of my concerns are double chin and posing aestheticly as I am curvy and full-figured. Please make a video for those of us who have a little more to love.
great video! would love to see a video where you pose a group of cosplayers. i know that's a loaded request because that pose can vary greatly depending on the type of group cosplay, the number of cosplay, and they location you're working with. nevertheless, would be interested to see how you would do it.
We have two people posing here: Cosplay Posing 102: Posing With Another Person But larger group posing is something we definitely would like to do in the future! We just have to find a time when we can wrangle some willing friends together :D
Thanks for the great video! This really helped me out with comming up with new poses! ^^ Oh and does anybody have any recommend poses for Monaco from Hetalia? I really do need new poses!
Tips for danganronpa Cosplayers: try and mimic one of the characters sprites from the games. It would make for a great picture and it's technically a canon facial expression
Marceline206 I know it’s late but thanks my dude
Thank you!! I’m going as junko soon! And I think she’s one of the easier ones to pose but this is gonna heck so much
I clicked on this video, not expecting danganronpa, but I scroll to the comment section and danganRONPA APPEARS WHAT-
I’m going as mikan soon so ty !
Junko posing are the best
You seriously need to make more posing videos.
I practiced in the mirror, and the spread legs tip was perfect. You are perfect with explaining things.
When people ask to take a photo of me, it's hard for me to choose how to pose because I cosplay Ciel xD
get a cane? maybe that'll work out
+Ciel Phantomhive Could do a non sassy hand on the hip?
Cross you arms and look annoyed because Sebastian isn't near to help you.
You can hold your (left) arm to your stomach and prop your (right) elbow on the hand of the left arm. While you do this, you can curl your (right) fingers. This can create a somewhat "annoyed" or "uptight" pose. I hope this makes sense and looks okay. >~
+Ciel Phantomhive just flip them the birdie xD bc ciel kinda has that screw you atitude. xD jk DO NOT DO THAT unless you like cops.
9:19 SHE'S SHOWING US HOW TO POSE LIKE LEVI!!! (i had to make the joke, sry ppl)
You're my new best friend *-*
Good thing cause i'm cosplaying as Levi XD
Anime Emerald
Me too xD
YAY XD
Anime Emerald
Levi twins xD
I'm terrible at posing, and I was laughing at one point in this video because the costume I just did was exactly the "boring character" problem you mentioned, lol! As someone also not very creative or photogenic in "posed" shots, these suggestions were also enormously helpful for me with giving me better ideas of what to do. Thanks!
I can't do a relaxed smile no matter what I do. It's because of the positioning of my top teeth, I can't even close my mouth... The struggle for me is very real
Is it possible for you to do an open mouthed smile like this? 0.s3.envato.com/files/83625155/ritabonita_060-590.jpg
Elite Cosplay Possibly, I'll have to practice it though.
Same!
ME TOO
Omg!! Someone understands my struggle
If I smile I look like Kageyama Tobio
Kageyama smiling to rivals or Kageyama smiling to Hinata?
When people want me to make a wide smile I just like Undyne XD
how do I pose for trickster dirk without looking 9000% done
A unamused look XD since he seems to have the same strider look as Dirk 1st appearance in the comic so just an unamused but not like you didn't want to a picture.
but trickster dirk is 90000000% done
No can cosplay dirk without looking 1000000000000000000000000000% done
Omgs same
try to think of a happier place
The whole video, I was trying to figure out who you looked like...you definitely look like Jennifer Lawrence lol. Also, I'm terrible at posing so this was super helpful! I love shooting with photographers like you who know how to direct.
Haha I've never gotten Jennifer Lawrence before! I'm so glad we could help :)
yes i see it!
Rexluna Cosplay No.. Go check your eyesight..
fetalplutto someone is angry .-.
Thanks algoritm for blowing this video up wow, i remember searching hard for cosplay poses and I only knew lolita pose videos. I'm surprised that only now TH-cam recommends it to me when i didn't reall needed it right now.
awesome video! the part about the double chin was very helpful, I'm totally gonna try out those tricks!
Glad we could help! :)
Really nice and helping video for beginners as well as me, who's into cosplaying for quite some years.
Gosh I wish you were my photographer.
Anyway great video! Bummed that the ratings are disabled ) :
LOVED this video! I rarely comment on videos but thanks so much for posting this coz I didn't have a clue!!
I'd love some tips on Disney Princess posing please :)
Thanks so much!! :) I think making a princess posing video would be a great idea
+Elite Cosplay What happened to this idea?
If you're cosplaying as Ene from Mekakucity actors then you should probably do the normal jump cause then you're floating with no legs.
Great video! Love the info as well as your presentation of it.
Thank you so much for your tips! My hubby and I have our first Vulcan photo shoot on friday so excited!!
Hey, just wanted to thank you for the video, it really explained alot of basic things on posing which makes things easier and more understandable.
I'd love if a person like you took Cosplay pictures of me 🥺 someone who talks to me, says what I should be doing, how I look in the camera and everything.
But here in Germany most people just want to take a picture as quickly as possible and leave
I know this is an older video, but I really do appreciate this. Been starting to do a lot more cosplay photography and so many of my models get a bit lost on posing, so its great to have some more ideas to help them out with.
I only just started like a month now, or something, and you have come to save my cosplay's life. Thank you so much.
Super awesome video, very helpful, with easy tips and treats to use.
I really love how you add the photo examples ^-^ Thank you for this awesome video!!!
Thank's a lot for your advices. I'm photographer and i shoot most of the time with the people who don't know how to pose. And your video will help me to direct the people in the good way for the shoothing! ^^
My dad is a wedding photographer so I pretty much had to learn how to pose for pictures at a young age haha. All your tips are on point and even helped me. I have anxiety so when a camera is shoved in front of me I just kind of forget I'm trying to be ic and act like myself x.x
Great tips. I'm not much of a photographer myself, much more used to being in front of the camera. I see a lot of Cosplayers that just don't seem to know what to do with themselves. This is a great tut. Super clear and very easy to follow. Awesome tips for would be models. This is getting shared. :D
This video was so helpful for me! Thank you so much for sharing it
THIS IS SOOO HELPFUL!!! Thanks so much for giving out this tutorial!!!
At my next con, I will be Uta (Tokyo Ghoul), Levi Ackerman/Heichou (Attack on Titan), and Yuri Plisetsky (Yuri on Ice), and all of them are pretty badass. This will be pretty challenging for me since I'm naturally very "cute" and short.
Thank for all the suggestions !
Nice video
My character i need to figure out poses on is Keith from Voltron: Legendary Defender and after watching this i got so many ideas thank you!
This video is so great and helpful! 💕💕💕thanks
This advices were absolutely accurate!! Great job there!
Great vid
I'm going to be taking a lot of photos at MCM London next month so i am looking to find ways to make my pics look awesome
Thank you so much! definitely helpful tips! I will try some of these in an upcoming con next time!~
My gosh thank you. My group isn't so professional but this is sure to help us out.
i am not a cosplayer but photographer but this video was useful for me, cause it helps to direct cosplayers during a shoot, for example which kind of poses the can do. Will check out your other videos as well and i subscribed now :)
I really liked your video, it's really helpfull!
This is one thing that always get on my nerves, on people cosplay a cute character with no cute poses or a serious character with cute poses. And more, no feeling to it! Looks like they are posing because they need to, not because they want to.
Or sometimes when they have the same expression to different characters.
I think your video made people to think a little or to express more.
Wow this was incredibly helpful! Thanks so much for the tips. I’m cosplaying todoroki though so it’s hard to figure out what emotion to use but I think I’m getting it.
This was so informative and helpful! Thank you
That's really amazing and useful tips! I'll make good use of it! Thanks!
I'm doing my first cosplay this year and I certainly got a few helpful ideas from the video. c: Thank you. ^-^
Thank you very much for these tips! :D I'm going to Ohayocon tomorrow and I think I'll have a much better idea on posing and such this weekend! ^^
Great video, really helpful.
I am a pose Freak when it comes to cosplay, whether I am cosplaying or i am taking a picture of a cosplayer. And i must say, you executed this video VERY nicely. I couldnt agree more with you pov. Well Done! //claps
I have a question *3*!!! I'm cosplaying Ciel Phantomhive soon, and he's the type of serious,I tthink a bit of cocky kind off character. Do you have any tips maybe?
Try a pouty or apathetic facial expression. For the stance, stand with your feet about shoulder width apart. You can place one hand on your cane (if you include that in your cosplay) and the other on your hip or by your side. It might help to Google Ciel cosplayers and see how they posed. I hope this helped :3
(PS Black Butler is amazing!!!)
Thank you so much! This really helped me!
Keep your head up and have a straight pose. :)
Thanks this was really helpful, posing in cosplay has always shown me at my most awkward these tips will really help ;)
Never been to a photoshoot before, hope this helps me out
Love it!! :D
Thanks!!
I have a suggestion: poses for crossplay. Most of my female friends crossplay and we often try not to look too cute or pose like a girl, it's kinda hard sometimes
this helped me so much! thank you!
I'm getting ready for my first convention in years and like...WE HAVE LIKE HAD NO CLUE we just default to standing there and smiling so yeah. This is going to help for sure! Thank you so much.
Amazing! very helpful!
i really needed this thank you so much
I'm going to an anime convention this weekend, and I because there will most likely be photoshoots, I 'm glad I found this video. It was really helpful. ^^ Thank you for making this video. ;)
#truefact As humans we use to have perfect posture, aand then we became lazy.
I am going to be cosplaying a male character. His name is Sollux Captor from a web comic called Homestuck. I can't really think of a pose for him. (I doubt I'll get asked for a picture though but just incase) You're also very pretty and your very helpful!
We're definitely going to be coving crossplaying poses in a video soon!! :)
Well, sol is usually floating around XD maybe try using the jump method? I cosplay Karkat XD and John , the jump method would be great for sol tho , maybe add some cool effects in editing with the blue and red eyes and stuff :3
YAS omg
:D not a problem ! it was a pleasure to help a fellow homestucker
Moonshine_grimDarkpony Cx
Thank you for the video this really helped! I'm being a character that flies at the next convention so the jumping part was really helpful. I can never get my jumps to look right so hopefully this will help.
You're welcome! Let us know how it works out :)
So handy! Thank you very much.
hmmmm how about for a butler? or ciel? i dunno what poses to do for them...
thankyou for all the great tips, oh and you look so pretty =)
this video was extremely helpful, thank you so much! do you think you'd be able to make a video that has poses for when your cosplaying with other people?
Very helpful, thanks!
This was great advice!
Love it!!!!! still not good at posing hahaha but i'll try my best!
this really helped!! I was wondering why my pictures don't come out so well... I guess I got my answer :) thanks a bunch!!
This is perfect! I mainly cosplay Vocaloids, and it is very hard to pose because if you're familiar with Vocaloid, you know the characters don't have much personality.
Wow this is really helpful, thank you! Makes me feel more confident about posing ^^'
Im going to the anime convention of 2015 my first time!!! This realy helped!!!
I've been having a problem cosplaying as Marshall Lee with his bass ax, you helped a lot! Thank you! ^.^
Is your issue flying?
RandomJellybean Yeah it is T.T
Thank you!
You are GREAT! There was many times when I threw my head back for I was cracking up
You're beautiful!!! Thanks for the tips!
Can you do a video on how to pose your legs? I can never figure out how to have my legs when I'm doing photoshoots and they tend to look awkward. And also a video on posing while sitting / lying down?
Thank you for this, I hope that all of them will work for when I cosplay as Negan from the walking dead
I cosplayed as Hinata and the problem I had was with the pose. I only had two poses planned, one badass and one where you put your index fingers together. I had a kunai as a weapon and I ended up with similar pictures with everyone. Some people said that because of that one pose it almost looked photoshopped. How can anyone pose as a character like Hinata?? It's impossible!!
i know this is an old comment but hinata does have some poses where shes attacking try and look up pictures of that and try to practice those poses so you have an idea of what to do when getting a pic taken. Also for nearly an cosplay you can look up pics from the show manga comics or whatever your charecter is from and find images of what that charecter does. also if you see images you don't like of your cosplay think of what you'd like to change about it and think of a new pose from that.
Thank you so much for the tips! I am currently preparing for Anime Expo. Last year I was asked for a picture and I looked like a deer in the headlights. D: Thanks again!
Wow thank you so much I think you may have just got another sub^U^
Be sure to look up pictures of the character! You can find common poses they do there!
For example, when I cosplay Tomura Shigaraki, I often reach out for the camera or scratch my neck, etc etc.
Wow. Very useful!!
This is so helpful oh gosh
Does anybody know any hetalia canada poses?
Well this is definitely a late response to say the least! But hopefully it'll help for future cosplaying! When you're standing and taking pictures, think shy. What do people do when they're shy? They kind of look down, put their arms in front of them, things of that nature. Maybe you could try looking down at your bear (assuming you have one) and just stand straight at the camera (kind of like this: www.deviantart.com/art/Cosplay-APH-Canada-285255878 ) If you can't really pose standing, try sitting cross legged and hugging your bear/letting it rest on your lap. Do kind of a slight smile, eyebrows up. Hope this helps! :)
*is a year late* i agree with above. But does anyone have any ideas for poses for China?
Emma Lai holding a panda or being in a fighting stance maybe
Ravenclaw of the fire nation stare off into the distance looking for flying mint bunny
Thank you.. It helps.
I came here for help with VI and surprisingly I found that you even did a VI cosplay that was shown xD
thank you!
thank you for helping me
This was surprisingly helpful, thank you so much! And by the way, you are really beautiful.
Thank you very much! I'm so glad we could help :)
I love the thumbnail!
Thanks ^_^ I'll be cosplaying as Fang from FF13 soon so this has given me many tips.
You look so adorable too >~
Thank you for the video! I thought its gonna be some kawaii pose tutorial but its really useful.Thank you!
Loved it thx
Thank you for making this.
Thanks for your helpful video. I need your expertise on posing as characters such as Esmeralda (with my tambourine), Batgirl (with my baterang), and soon I will be Elsa (with my very own suspended snowflake lol). Some of my concerns are double chin and posing aestheticly as I am curvy and full-figured. Please make a video for those of us who have a little more to love.
great video! would love to see a video where you pose a group of cosplayers. i know that's a loaded request because that pose can vary greatly depending on the type of group cosplay, the number of cosplay, and they location you're working with. nevertheless, would be interested to see how you would do it.
We have two people posing here: Cosplay Posing 102: Posing With Another Person
But larger group posing is something we definitely would like to do in the future! We just have to find a time when we can wrangle some willing friends together :D
This really helped~! Thank you~! :D
Thanks for the great video! This really helped me out with comming up with new poses! ^^ Oh and does anybody have any recommend poses for Monaco from Hetalia? I really do need new poses!
I'm going to be cosplaying as Undertaker and his bangs mostly covers his eyes. So how would I smile with my eyes lol
could you do one for sitting/kneeling poses or sad faces?
thank youuuu
it helps a lot
Thank you
You're so helpful and kind I want to have a photoshoot with you but haha yeah I'm far away > < Thank youuu