The original picture:

In case you can't tell, the left arm is bent. You can just barely make out the outline of the forearm.
The icon is acceptable, but personally I think the original picture is still loads better.
One last edit: Made a still version. Less noisy than the animated version. The still version is now my default. Here it is:
Dreamwidth users can view it here (in case of LiveJournal failure): http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/877783/302328
Crossposted from http://fayanora.dreamwidth.org