Ebony Widow - Monster High OC

This is a really interesting take on a character and the pose is very interesting. o uo Mostly the issues come from anatomy and a bit of physics. I guess I'll work my way down from the top.

1 - For the angle the body is at, the head should not be able to turn that far without it being uncomfortable. Since you're going for a fairly comfortable pose, I would suggest turning the upper torso to the side a little more or keeping the head at a profile (just from the side) view. That way it won't strain the character. The way you havei t now, the body is not twisted and stays between a 3/4 view and a full-back view without much contortion from the spine.

2 - It's unusual for hair to drape from the right side of her head onto her left shoulder and then drape back down the side it came without just falling down. Her left shoulder shouldn't be adorned by any hair from this back view. I also find it unusual that the hair goes down the back of her head when this picture is drawn from the back. In other words, the hair should be mostly at the back of her hair and shoving it away would still cause it to form thick loops or locks over the side of one or both shoulders. In other words, this picture looks like the woman lives with her head turned 180 degrees so that her face is actually facing the same direction as her back and her hair flows freely down her boobs.

3 - You start the cleft in the back too early and too far to the left. It seems like it splits the back in half, but that's only on paper. In composition, her right shoulder is slightly further away from her left shoulder, so the line down the middle should be drawn a little further toward the right to give it a sense of depth. Also, the cleft does not usually start in this pose until mid-way down the back. If anything, in a nice body like this one, the spinal chord pops out a little instead and shows as tiny, extruded bumps that an be completely ignored in a drawing like this. Instead, focus on shoulder blades. Because both arms are being pulled back, the shoulder blades follow and pop out from the back, forming deep shadows. This mostly happens with nice-body types and skinny types and is hard to reproduce on a fatty like me. XD;;; But you should put one hand like one of hers and feel the shoulder blade under the skin with your other hand to see how it pokes out.

4 - Hands are everyone's nightmare but I really can't tell what's happening with her right hand. The point where the fingers meet are so close to her wrists, I thought she might have gotten surgery to tear all her fingers that long down her carples (which would render her unable to use her hand. Eep!). When studying the use of hands, I like to use www.posemaniacs.com/tools/hand… WARNING!!!! The first 3D form you see is actually not a hand but a male torso. .///////.;;;; The hands are the rest of the japanese words on the right side. You can click and drag a form to rotate it.

5 - Swimsuits are usually tightfitting. That means they don't fall off easily like normal clothes. You have here the swimsuit being taken off like normal clothes, but in reality, the crotch part wouldn't hang so easily for a good swimsuit. It would cling to her body until your hands get to that level and pull it off. Until then, only the upper part of the swimsuit would be pulled down and the lower part would stick to her.

Hope that helps. <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b…" width="15" height="15" alt="" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="366" title=" (Big Grin)"/>