Sniper Rifle anyone?

[IngMaster]

so I started this drawing with the idea of having one of my characters fixing/working/calibrating (whichever suits you better) her sniper rifle.

I am having one hell of a time getting one in there, any ideas?

[Felis]

From what I've read about drawing weapons and people holding them;

You always draw the weapon first, precisely because it's a pain in the ass to get one to fit once you've defined a person. Living things are flexible. Guns, made of plastic, wood, and metal, are not flexible at all.

You've already drawn the person, and I am far from being skilled enough to give a professional recommendation of what you should do.

However, it might help a ton to give an example of the rifle you plan to place in there. There are many kinds of rifles, and a few variants might be handy if you weren't planning anything specific.

There are also three basic parts to a gun, the barrel, the lock, and the stock. The placement of each will affect the pose. From what I can see, the lock part is about midway up her body, where her hand is fiddling. You've given yourself a good bit of room, which is fortunate, because while barrel length usually isn't very significant in the working of a firearm, the lock and stock are.

Depending on what part of the lock she's tinkering with, you might have tons of room or not very much at all.

It would be helpful, again, to show the design of the rifle itself.

[IngMaster]

Thanks for the reply!

I do see the difficulty of placing the rifle now as opposed to later but the rifle was going to sit between her crossed legs, so I needed to know where those would be, hence the chosen order.
I believe I can work the necessary angle I need by repositioning her left hand, so I might try that.

Some time ago, I designed this rifle specifically for her.

I've been told by a gun expert that it is a very good representation.

[Felis]

Unfortunately, I cannot determine a good posing right now, mostly because I can't get to the training rifle in my house and shoot a picture ATM.

However, I did try to use some photo manipulation magic to match to the pose.

I'm not sure how big the gun is, so this might be ultrafail, but hopefully this is some measure slightly more than not helpful.

[IngMaster]

The gun is actually supposed to be 1.5x as long as you made it, but that was the idea I was going for.

Thanks for the help, I'll see what I come up with.

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