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I can draw you some red lines if you'd like : 3 first I'll need to know what gender each character is.... In my red line I may suggest another way of posing the legs, just to keep the characters weight in a more balanced forme, but its up to you weither you'd like to keep it like that or not : )

Ok sorry for the late response I was busy last night and couldn't post : )



Ok so.... I changed the position of the leg/feet to stabalize more the weight of your characters, in your sketch the posing of the legs were really full of mouvement, which is great but because your characters are standing up, you need to take in consideration the weight there putting on there legs. So a more stable straight line position would be needed to keep them standing upwards : ) Your torso positions were great by the way : ), I changed it a little with my red line version because I wanted to emphasise more the gender difference of the characters but you could have easoly kept it the way it was before and it would have been ok as well... : )

Now you mentioned having problems with drawing your characters shoulders... But I think your problem is more with your neck than with your shoulders... Your girls shoulders seem fine, and your boys shoulders seem a little low, but other than that the problem is more in the neck I think. So one pointer about necks is that when you tilt your head... like the position you gave your girl its not really the neck thats tilting forward, but more the head. Your neck CAN tilt forward...however most people tend to tilt there head forward then force there neck to tilt forward. Usually you'll see the neck in a tilted position when someone curves there back (like when you curle up in a ball) But generally for more relaxed poses like the one you have, the head will tilt forward slightly and your neck stays pretty much straight, with maybe a slight curve, but nothing as drastic as what you drew. It was fun to see you exagerating the forms of the necks... its just it was a little to much and made the characters neck seem out of balance

: )hope this helped

Ok good luck ^-^