I don't think the man's pose makes any sense at all in relation to his setting or his partner. It looks like he's sitting on an invisible horse at the moment. I don't have any idea where you could be going with this to have it all make sense, but I wish you luck. Oh, I should say that I really like the colors and sand effect.
I was talking to Helm and he asked if I was interested in a collaboration. I jumped at the chance. At first I was just going to provide him lines and he would color them, but soon it turned into a form of an "exquisite corpse." I drew the head and then he drew the body. Then I colored the body and he colored the head. This is the result of our work.
For those of you interested, these are my and Helm's work in progress animations respectively.