Thanks for the edit Phil, it's definetly a more natural and relaxed position.
I feel that I'm leaning more towards a fighting stance though now I've been messing around the arms a bit more.
Here's a couple of quick sketchy edits I did on the arms.
I definetly prefer the big arms and hands as apposed to those of my original pencil sketch.
For the 4th one I was going for a kinda praying mantis style, I dunno if it works or not.
Tell me if i'm heading in the right direction with these. They were pretty quick to knock up, and I really wanna nail the idle stance of this guy
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That's cool Lostspringtidus, I always assumed platform characters were completely side-on. I guess you rarely see them stationary anyhoo