Ok. You know you need to have the audience involved, have a great pose with expressive body language and look for an appealing line of action.

Now, how do you pose each element?

A biped character is composed by a head, torso, arms and legs.

And of course, the head has the different elements of the face to express different emotions. The eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth.

So the best way to achieve a pose, is by taking mini-intuitive-decisions on each area.

It’s a good idea to learn about body language when posing a character, because different hand gestures can mean different things.

You can check the basics by looking for -> body language on wikipedia.

Let’s see a quick and short mini list that you can use to achieve a power pose.