How to Draw Legs and Feet

Two more images from the portfolio of etchings published for the purpose of instruction in the art of Drawing by Robert Sayer, Printmaker and Mapmaker in 18th Century London.

More about his history in the previous post: How to Draw Hands.






The next three pictures are drawings of casts by a 19th Century artist named Edward Oaksmith of New York.


How to Draw Hands an ebook at Figure-Drawings.com.

Draw Real Hands! (Discover Drawing Series)

Drawing Hands and Feet: Form, Proportions, Gestures and Actions (The Art of Drawing)

Drawing & Painting Hands & Feet







Artistic Costume Designing
Simple clear illustrations characterize this very complete introduction to costume and fashion designing by the founder and Director of Lipson's School of Costume Designing in Los Angeles. The book is designed as a home study book with exercises to work on. It includes sections on how to draw the figure, how to draw hand, feet, legs and how to illustrate costumes and fashions.

Print of the bones of the foot for sale on Ebay Click here to see them for sale on Ebay

Vilppu Drawing Hands and Feet

Also see How to Draw a Foot

Arthur "Pop" Momand - How to Draw Hands and Feet

"Pop" Momand gave the English language the phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses," by using it as the title of the popular comic strip he started in 1916. He started as a sketch artist at the New York World. He drew the strip until 1945, after which he became a portrait painter. For a more complete history see Lambiek.net, also Don Markstein's Toonpedia.

All the time he kept up his figure drawing. These are two pages from a sketchbook, one a study of hands, the other of feet. They are on the Ebay Auction site.

Click here to see these and other items by Arthur "Pop" Momand for sale on Ebay.

The artistic life must have agreed with him, he lived to be a hundred and one.

Some strips from Keeping up with the Joneses.

How to Draw a Foot

These are two more images from The Art of Figure Drawing by Thomas H. Maguire. Mr. Maguire was an accomplished portrait artist with numerous credits. The one below is of Charles Darwin.

Here's a step by step method for drawing a foot.

1. Sketch in the basic structure of the foot, notice the weight of the figure is on a vertical line through the balance of the foot.
2. Add outlines of the skin as it passes over the structural parts of the foot, the ankle, the toes, the heel and the lower leg.

 3. Continue to develop the anatomy of the foot notice the angle of orientation of the ankle bones, and the curvature of the toes. Notice how the second tow is the longest, longer than the big toe, and how the smallest tow tends to curve under the one next to it. You can see these in the drawings at the top of the page also.
4. Add details, toenails, shape of the toes, shape of the ankle and begin to indicate where you will shade the drawing.

5. Now you can finish shading the drawing and do some finish outlining to the forms. be sure to observe how the shadows fall because that will help develop the forms in space.

 Two plates from The Principles of Drawing by Gerard De Lairesse Published by Thomas Bowles.

The principles of drawing: or, an easy and familiar method whereby youth are directed in the practice of that useful art. Being a compleat drawing book

The principles of design for the curious young gentlemen and ladies, who study and practice the ... art of drawing, colouring and japanning: or a new and ... drawing-book; ... introduction to drawing

A treatise on the art of painting, in all its branches; accompanied by seventy engraved plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters ..

Other Posts:

How to Draw Legs and Feet

Arthur "Pop" Momand - How to draw Hands and Feet

Anatomy for Artists Painters and Sculptors ebook at Figure- Drawings.com









Drawing Hands and Feet: Form, Proportions, Gestures and Actions (The Art of Drawing)

Drawing and Painting Hands and Feet