As Achariya writes, we her faithful minions follow. Seriously, I can’t help that she comes up with great ideas for blog posts! I’ve been saying for days now that I’m going to write a blog post for the posemaker challenge, and I’m finally making the time for it. Posemakers do seem to be one of those classes of unsung heroes in SL. None of us would have interesting photos without them, and yet they’re very often missing in credits lists.

One of my go-to posemakers is Luth Brodie of Reel Expression. I started looking for poses for my SL photos within my first month or so, and Luth’s shop was one of the first I found. Her poses helped me figure out I should look for in a good pose because they were so cleanly made without distorting my shape or my clothes. I always feel very natural when using her poses, and in fact, I use several of the stands in her curvy casual AO in my current AO rotation. That curvy factor is another reason why I so appreciate Luth. She has created versions of many of her poses to fit curvier avatars, and when she put together a huge pack of all her curvy poses, I ran over to buy them all as soon as I could. Thanks to her I can put my hands on my hips and not in my hips, and I can put my arms across my chest without losing them in my chest.

Because I wanted to focus on the great lines of these poses, I went with a simple outfit, the kind of form-fitting clothes I typically wear when I’m trying out new poses actually. I do want to pay a bit of special attention to the skin I’m wearing though. Teagan was kind enough to give me some of the newest skins at Tea Lane, and I really like this Treacle shade in contrast to my usual paler skin choice. As always at Tea Lane, the price is extremely reasonable for any shopper at $200L for both a freckled and unfreckled version, and there are a couple of skin tones darker than this one, including a new one called Chocolate, as well as several lighter ones.

Skin: Tea Lane Treacle Skin – Robyn makeup
Hair: Exile Kara Merlot
Eyes: Shine Cathedral Mocha
Shirt: TorridWear Indian Summer Tank White
Bracelets: Shai Eternal Nefertari Bracelet Cuffs (currently available at Digital Alchemy)
Necklace: Exile Lapis Sun goldring necklace (currently available at Digital Alchemy)
Jeans: Zaara Jeans {jewelled} *charcoal*
Shoes: Maitreya Frenzy Triple Gem
Poses: Reel Expression Photo 1: Arty V2 02 – Curvy and Rockabilly 07 – Curvy; Photo 2: Expression 9 – Curvy, Material Girls 08 – Curvy, and Fashion S1 06 – Curvy