Advice for this drawing? (progress update)

[pillow bunny]

I'm trying to draw something, but the arm looks weird no matter how I try to draw it. Does anyone have any advice?

Spoiler: original image

 

[jingbabu]

Make the left shoulder higher;; i think nut ucan keep the hand there

 

[Kirindrake]

Considering her with legs, how is her lower-half going to be positioned? Looks like the bottom half of her body is going to be very slanted to where she'd fall over, looking at her dress. I think the elbows should go lower down seeing as one section of the arm is shorter than the other section for both of them. Also, her neck looks lopsided maybe rather than centered on the area where her shoulders are?

Just thinking out loud ^^; Hope I might've helped!


EDIT: Shoot, I didn't notice that you were only talking about the arm >U>; Er, nevermind the rest, I guess.

 

[Pharaoh]

Drawing a stick figure sometimes helps position things at the angles you want them before having to put all that work in for something not to look quite right. References can help too, especially with poses. Try looking up photos of people doing a similar arm movement.

 

[pillow bunny]

Update:

Make the left shoulder higher;; i think nut ucan keep the hand there

I raised it a little bit.

Considering her with legs, how is her lower-half going to be positioned? Looks like the bottom half of her body is going to be very slanted to where she'd fall over, looking at her dress. I think the elbows should go lower down seeing as one section of the arm is shorter than the other section for both of them. Also, her neck looks lopsided maybe rather than centered on the area where her shoulders are?

Just thinking out loud ^^; Hope I might've helped!


EDIT: Shoot, I didn't notice that you were only talking about the arm >U>; Er, nevermind the rest, I guess.

Yeah I ended up redrawing her body because it didn't make any sense lol. I adjusted her neck a bit but I'm not sure how to change her arms so the elbows are lower but still in that pose. and thanks for all the help, I just needed advice for the arms most urgently.

Drawing a stick figure sometimes helps position things at the angles you want them before having to put all that work in for something not to look quite right. References can help too, especially with poses. Try looking up photos of people doing a similar arm movement.

I googled "person listening to music" but most of the pictures were cropped so you could only see the person's head, not their arms. I also tried some similar searches, but didn't find anything useful there either. I tried drawing a stick figure, but the legs still seem kind of off.

 

[The Crossing Troll]

http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww219/VampireHippie/help sheet.png

here you go hope this helps c:

and watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74HR59yFZ7Y

with practice this will take you a long way