>>38422857This is graveler's sprite from red & green. You notice the rocky parts on the lower body aren't in fact arms, especially since the red and blue sprite also has no second set of arms (and is even more obvious bout it)
The art that we know was not concept art, but was promotional and as such was made after the games, and sugimori thought he saw a second set of arms when he was making the promo art for all the pokemon and no one from the dev team saw it before it was done. Promo art is what consumers see, and as such the "cannon" needed to be changed to fit the art people expected.