Counting head lengths when drawing fashion figures works when dividing up the length of the legs. The entire length of legs in a figure drawing runs about four heads. The knee joints start within the sixth head.
Men’s legs are thicker than women’s. Keep a woman’s leg long and curvy while making a man’s wide and straight with muscular calves.
Start your figure drawing leg this way:-
Mark off four heads (ovals) to show the length of the leg.
The knee falls in approximately the bottom one-fifth of the second oval from the top.
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Draw in two cylinder-like shapes over the four-head length, making the top cylinder slightly shorter than the bottom cylinder. Connect the two cylinders with a circle for the knee.
The knee circle should be about half a head tall. End the bottom part of the leg at the bottom of the eighth head.
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Erase the head markings from Step 1, leaving the cyclinders and circle to create the leg shape.
