Macho man body proportion issues

TKG

i am currently working on fun project of macho man randy savage in a cartoon ish style and for this i have warped the base proportions of the character to make it look more top heavy. So the chest / torso is wider than it should be and legs are shorter. However some feed back has stated that the proportions look wrong however to fix this i would have to undo the warped shapes making it look much more realistic which is easy enough to do. i just wonder how character artists would warp proportions without causing an issue ?
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Fuiosg

the big thing is he has no shins. Proportionally the lower leg should be about the same length as the upper leg, even if it's stylized. You can still make him top heavy, just keep the legs smaller overall.

Wendy de Boer

I think if you want to pull off a character with such short legs, you would have to simplify everything a lot more, and really push the proportions. Right now it looks too realistic in its execution to work with the stubby legs.

Edit:
I just happened across this piece on ArtStation. In this case, the short legs work, because the stylization is carried much further. It has a good mix of rounded and angular shapes, and a strong flow and gesture. Not all the muscle detail is modeled in, it's just hinted at. I'm not saying that you should copy this particular character, ofcourse, but I think it might be a worthy subject to study.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qvWLa

TKG

update on proportion fixes the arms are the right size there just relaxed

jose.fuentes

once you updated the proportions you lost that stylized look you were going for, if you sill want that really exaggerate it, push the silhouette  

TKG

thanks for the reply . yea i  get what you are saying but i think the overall detail is to much and even if i warp the proportions of the silhouette it will just look wrong like before im thinking that i should just finish this sculpt off realistically then attempted a new character but make it an ex stream cartoon to experiment with warping proportions and experiment with style 

TKG

update Guys