Thank you very much for your pointers! Great pieces of advice! I considered them, and the pose looks way better now. Strange how very minor details can elevate the entire look of a design.
Here’s a (very rough) sketch of his antagonist. Her features are supposed to be a bit weird, that’s why I wanted the spearman to look good proportionally, to make her look mer demonic by contrast.
Now I just need to figure out how to make a screaming face in profile.
