This week I actually have two entries for illustration Friday.  This time I decided to do a bit of research on google image search - there were two 'iconic' images that came up on the subject of poise.

The first was the line up of people showing different postures - I found this was a good quick exercise in character drawing I kept the colour palette limited to grey black and red as  this matched many of the information diagrams that showed peoples poise.

The second recurring image representing poise was women balancing books on their heads at old fashioned 'finishing schools'.