Whoever it was that guessed I was going to lean Girl 1 back - you nailed it. I want to keep Girl 2 open, and also crowd two pairs of hands behind her to make the whole thing more congested. I temporarily am ignoring the animals as Girl 1 took the cat's position. I'll add them last when I know where the girls will be.
I'm not sure if you can see it, but I'm just piling up tracing paper and taping it down so it doesn't move. You can see the faint cat one layer down. I actually cut out Girl 1 with an Xacto, because I wasn't revising Girl 2 or 3. So if you look closely you can see the cut edge of the new layer that Girl 1 is on.
The whole composition is getting better, but now there doesn't seem to be enough connection between Girl 1 and 3. And Girl 2 needs to be crowded from behind if she's gonna stay in that pose, which I'd like to try and make work.
Since Girl 1 is now in a more standard pin up pose, I want to make girl 3 much more casual.
Again, I'm not worrying about costumes, because it's more important to get the figures posed. The costumes will need to be minimal and simple anyway, and they'll need to work around the poses.
love it