i'am not an artist and hope to find some inspirations from Professionals. I want to create a small Browserbased game, iam a Professional programmer since 7 years, so i actually know how to Programm a game, however it is a bit tricky for me to do the art.
The game is about ancient gladiators, it is more like a simulator rather than an action game, so you should be able to purchase gladiators from a slavery market, train them and watch them fighting in the arena. I hope i can find some help about the part "Watch them fighting". I want to create bone animations for different reasons. If i create a sprite animation then many images(or a big sprite) has to be downloaded by the browser to be able to display the animation. If i would create a 3D animation then the PC must have specific technical requirements and the details of the character would be not that good. So i decided to go for bone animations.
In order to create a commission request later on to an professional artist, i want to create the place holder images by my self. I think this is necessary for communication with the artist and also for me to develop the engine where i can replace the images later on.
My current test looked like this (please bare in mind that this is my 3rd picture ever ive drawn)

I want to create a pose, where i can create as much animations from it as possible without to redraw body parts. The game should have at least an animation for idle, attack, dodge, block, fall and die.
The reason why i want to avoid redrawing body parts is because of the armor parts, which should be replaceable, also the weapons.
My current pose has some problems, first one is the right leg, the pose feels correct but i dont have much freedom there, i have to redraw it then, maybe some here can show me a sketch/reference of a leg which will fit more for bone animation? The second problem is right arm.

i hope i can find here some pose inspirations for my need and i hope the question is not too offtopic, i just thought i can find here professional artists which already saw so many poses and help me out a bit.
Best regards