Hmm I appreciate your feedback, but I guess I don't really agree that she is out of proportion. As you can see she quite closely matches the reference proportion. Where she doesn't it tends to be sub-pixel issues and I have intentionally chosen to break a proportion one way or another on the pixel boundary:



There are probably two reasons that you think the arms might be wrong:
- the first is that the long arm has the shoulder significantly hunched upwards, bringing the hand up too.
- the second is that I have chosen to effectively represent the palms only, not the fingers too, due to lack of pixel space

However, your comment about the original image being better for animation is quite a valid point. I will give some animation a try and see how it goes with this new figure. I was a bit gutted I wasn't able to pull off some hourglass shapes on the legs at this scale.

It's not bad, but I don't really like how he's partly floating. When he bobs up and down or walks, his feet slide unnaturally on the floor.

Damn this is becoming awesome. Are you going to try some other gold types?

I'd suggest keeping the waves toned down in regards to contrast. They are in the background and you don't want them to be the focal point.

The shaded side looks good, but I'd reduce the contrast further on the plank edges detailed along it - those lines keep grabbing my eye, but the main purpose of simplifying that part is so that it doesn't grab your eye - but so your eye can relax because of less details.