Fashion Drawing For Dummies
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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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Erase the head markings from Step 1, leaving the cyclinders and circle to create the leg shape.

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Marianne Egan teaches fashion illustration and design, apparel construction, and more. Lisa Smith Arnold teaches art and drawing, including fashion illustration, at Norwalk Community College.?She has also served as creative coordinator and fashion editor at several major publications.

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