The arm is in fact not broken, and you can very easily recreate this pose in real life. Try it yourself, make a peace sign. You will notice your wrist and palm are facing outwards, and since nobody makes a peace sign facing the other direction, well, I don't know what else to tell you.
In fact, the forearm contains two bones, the ulna and the radius. While the ulna is stationary, the radius, as it's name implies, can rotate and does rotate around the ulna. This allows you to rotate your forearm roughly 180 degrees independently of the upper arm. While I do not understand how the forearm manages to rotate in place, this is the basic idea.
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Originally Posted by Haubix
The right arm is... broken? I can't redo this pose right now in real-life  |
Therefore, if this is really the case, I would actually be very worried about you.
The problem here is less that the "arm is broken" because anatomically speaking, this drawing is perfectly fine, and more the appearance that she is not rotating her arm to achieve the desired effect. To remedy this, I will need to do some crazy shading or something to draw attention to the fact that her forearm is rotated. Unfortunately, I don't really know how to achieve this effect as I am entirely self-taught. I'll have to go do some learning or spend a while in front of a mirror or something. I also did have some shading, but my roommate's scanner didn't pick it up because evidently, it was too light. Not that I think the shading was right in any case.
Oh, and just so you know, this drawing was done on my homework, haha.