I then tried the more forward version of the pose and found it had much more impact and told the story a lot more clearly. You tell them, Dee! Penny brought up the point that the above pose could be read very differently given a different facial expression. But the below definitely couldn't mistaken for a gesture of love!
I then moved onto 'troubled by result', which I like a lot. The vacant expression really finishes it off too, I think. Dee still looks a little too upright, but I was having trouble bending his body without either his hand going through the box or his arm having to be greatly diagonal...
'What's under there?' will happen at some point when I'm not swamped with my other, more immediate module deadlines. :( I miss you, 3D...
Caitlin :)
