I've made you a small sketch of a human (female) back. In your drawings of the dead wife it's seems all so wrong, so here:
Excellent - cheers.
I'm learning as I go so I'll be going back over stuff and correcting.
You should have seen the first draft!! Shocking... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
I also found some figure tutorials on the conceptart.org website that was recommended to me.