Hmm, i think there must be variation in this. My wrists (and, i was an ass and asked all of my family members to stand) are a few cm below the base of the crotch, not above (so this just proves the
old rule that the wrist is about on line with the crotch). Add in the slope of the shoulders and the arm is a fine length. Anyhow, if the photoshop doesn't do it for you, all I can suggest is that you buy a compass. As far as my point goes, you are working from estimation and speculation, where I am working from measurements, which only proves my point that it looks broken when it's not.
Use proper measurements to show it's not correct and I'll change my opinion, but just stating things that aren't true about all wrists doesn't convince of anything (are you measuring from the end of the genitals and not the actual crotch? certainly those are lower, but this girl has no penis). The way I see the current logic :
My wrist hangs at this level, therefor a wrist can
possibly hang at this level.
Your wrist hangs at that level, therefor all wrists
must hang at that level.
Which sounds more accurate?
Another great example I must come back to - look at that recent one you did with the head that is just too narrow (or too tall for itself, but it's the same sort of thing)
http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07343/Rightside.JPGThis is the same phenomenon played in reverse, the eye wants it to be right but it's broken. And you made a great point, it's your own face, so you should know how it ought to look! I'm realizing here that vision and art are just plain silly this way and it's damnably hard to correct for it.
Just to be safe, i wish to restate that I think the arm look bad and always have since scanning. My point isn't that people should draw arms this way, it's that perception is highly varied and not always correct.