How To Draw Legs | Easy Anatomy and Gesture

Easy style to learn how to draw legs in 3D. We'll use simple anatomy so you can learn how to draw different poses and gestures. The shapes and anatomy will also help with drawing female body proportions.
0:00 Intro
0:11 front view | one leg carries weight
2:18 jumping and walking pose
3:30 sitting pose | tips for foreshortening
4:06 back view tips
4:44 running poses
mikekoizumi
mikekoizumi
music by Epidemic Sound
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[@koizu]

Question of the day: What's your favorite things to draw?

[@anang04_rabo]

about that i think drawing sci-fi character like cyborg or android is my favorite so far.

[@nil696]

Hands, i dont have a hand fetish

[@Mak.i.i]

Random things that come to mind :)

[@vanillabananacrepe]

thighs, breasts, animal limbs, sideway profiles and collar bones

[@sultan6523]

Eyes and muscles

[@tybacchus8842]

I really appreciate the consistency man, you were definitely one of the people who got me to start art so this is great👍

[@koizu]

Thanks Ty!

[@zenoboi7504]

What consistency? Ha

[@zenoboi7504]

@oeuf because he NOT consistent

[@Bread_Bug]

This channel is the reason I started drawing. 6 years later and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. Thank you for all your amazing videos!

[@koizu]

My pleasure Avus! Thank you for your comment and your support all these years.

[@freyagrant4630]

The king returned!?! Yess. You're the reason why I chose art for my GCSE

[@koizu]

art is a great choice!

[@Prince_-vu4wu]

damn-it it was so simple. yet it's taken me this long to finally understand. thank you.

[@koizu]

you're very welcome! glad it can be a simple technique

[@Tralfagal]

Started my art journy 2 days ago and I'm really glad I found this channel today!

[@koizu]

oh wow, Tralfagal, that's great! Welcome to the channel and hope you will have fun as you begin your artistic journey!!

[@turtle4407]

Try your best!

[@Halfcertified]

Based on their pfp it looks like they stuck with it :)

[@BennyBowman]

I’m LOVING this consistent upload schedule!!

[@christianjames9669]

Glad you are posting moree !!!

[@ROY-ux2ru]

Your style of drawing is so simple, yet so great. Great video! :)

[@ArtsyLadyCrafter]

Thanks! Helps with my study of gesture drawing.

[@malahamavet]

I'm surprised to see a new video, and happy. I never thought i could draw legs with one straight line and two curvy lines, I'm definitely trying this next time I draw. what about a video on arms next? my arms are stiff, even if the proportion isn't that bad. I can't draw them in any angle, and I'm sure I'm not the only one

[@Artclstudios]

this was fun to watch, i struggle drawing legs but you it seem so simple. Great tips and flow of the video, thanks.

[@kat_eternity_family]

You got me into drawing again. Thank you so much for these tutorials. :)

[@osvaldoaguado1845]

Yooo I'm glad I found this video. I was finally get some custom leg anatomy to work with what you showed. Thank you so much. - luv ya

[@robertjv]

Best Art channel ever

[@kiyo_artsy]

This tut was actually really helpful! Thank you! I usually get annoyed when trying to learn art but this is great!

[@uchihehe2967]

I had trouble drawing legs consistently but this really helped!

[@koizu]

glad the video helped!

[@MotoRenaissance]

You're back! Teach me your ways

[@NewWaveEnthusiast]

Great vid!

[@sabOO2]

Ohhh i see thats how u do it ..nice

[@KillerTacos54]

Excellent video man

[@Rock07525]

Finally,i found the guide that i can understand Thank you man,this is what i looking for:)

[@aaroncross6620]

Nice love your vids and the fireball was my favorite and I don't know how to draw legs so this will be great

[@jericraven244]

I am wishing koizu would never stop sharing videos 🙇

[@amadeus6747]

This is exactly what I need, I can draw the body and arms properly to my taste but then I usually don't know what to do with the legs ^ ^

[@koizu]

sounds great, Amadeus!

[@nomadgaming1064]

i can draw some nice thighs and calves but arms hard hard to draw man what is your secret xD ?

[@tristanr7425]

@@nomadgaming1064 he puts all of his stats pts to arm and body drawing

[@DontLookBackPewDie]

missed you, i feel like abandoned child because of you... teach me daddy.

[@mathieuloembet3596]

It feels so good to have new content like this, thanks

[@koizu]

my pleasure Mathieu, thanks!

[@vaibhavk4618]

This content is soooo wholesome dude this tutorial helps me a lot . love your content please upload regularly pleaseee

[@koizu]

thanks so much vaibhav! that's the plan!

[@vaibhavk4618]

@@koizu well you can call me vivek. Vaibhav is my uncle. Your channel is like one of my favourite/diamond picks

[@nendrablackhole9657]

thank you for this tutorial

[@quevampstamp8507]

You are a amazing person

[@carlosgarcia7616]

Keep up the good work! I love your videos

[@koizu]

Thanks Carlos! Will try to keep the streak going!

[@userseal]

This helped me a lot. thanks!

[@koizu]

awesome!

[@Kazcoo]

Wow!🤩 Great video!!!😍

[@koizu]

thank you!

[@WeblightDreams]

This is the tutorial I so needed. :) Thank you!

[@koizu]

You're so welcome!

[@kitankookie2108]

Really nice and straightforward! ✨ I loved the tip when you said imagine the knee first and then go about drawing the leg! That’s a good one because I always tend to have trouble figuring out how long to make the leg 😂 but whew, nonetheless, didn’t expect so many legssss in this video haha!

[@koizu]

that knee tip comes in handy in many poses and angles. It works with foreshortening too by sometimes drawing the hand first then drawing the arm back to the body.

[@kitankookie2108]

@@koizu Sounds good!! I’ve been trying it out and I’m so happy with the results I’ve been getting so far! Really glad I got to watch your videos beforehand! They honestly did help me ❤️ Thank you, Koizu ❤️

[@flat_foot9017]

I really wish you did storyboard tutorials. That animatic you had done a decade ago is still one of my favourites

[@anang04_rabo]

okey now that help me so much because i struggle drawing sit down pose. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@koizu]

Great to hear it helped! Sit down pose can be tricky

[@blyatmobile4069]

great video you taught me so well on how to draw legs thanks koizu

[@koizu]

thanks Blyatmobile, was trying a shorter video, keeping things simple. Glad it helped!

[@fortfulton3889]

NO WAY THANK U ❤️❤️❤️ this is helping me so much!!!

[@koizu]

I'm so glad!

[@user-qr1qe6ek6m]

your drawing it so beautiful. من الشرق الاوسط العراق ✌️🥀

[@larasaku2900]

Thank you for this. I keep drawing stick legs so this helped me a lot :D

[@boa9557]

Needed this

[@Prime_Legend]

Been watching your vids lately and you're definitely one of the best for teaching. Could you make a video on drawing people sitting down on objects, like chairs.

[@koizu]

Hey Prime, thanks! Great suggestion about chairs. Will add that to my list :)

[@jonxjon1226]

He's back!!!

[@koizu]

I'm back!

[@littlemoon6523]

I cant believe you're back.. you've been one of my fav youtubers still are.. but you disappeared.. started watching you when you made the proportion videos.

[@hunters.hideout]

THE EBIC RETURN OF THE KING?

[@sabbarotman632]

nice

[@sim21art]

😭💕 your tutorial are Amaaaazing! 🥺💖 I love drawing imaginary creatures ✏️

[@koizu]

Thank you very much, Sim21Art! Creatures are fun to draw :)

[@sim21art]

@@koizu Yep! They are 😁💕

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Nice nice

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I’m so happy he’s back

[@koizu]

I'm happy being back too!

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Your channel is literally liquid gold. I’m so glad I found it! Thank you so much!!! 💕

[@gendernotfoundinash8373]

THANK YOUUUUUUU!

[@BaronVonTacocat]

good tutorial

[@koizu]

Thanks Baron!

[@markaguzmanartist630]

great vedio , question instead of drawing the legs , could i started like lines and then draw the legs over the lines kind like a stick figure

[@koizu]

hi Mark, you can definitely start with lines to get the general pose down first and draw the form on top after. Sounds like a good plan :)

[@LeonrayOfficial]

Love the vid! Would really love to see how to draw someone drawing a sword

[@koizu]

that would be a cool one to do :)

[@user-xh5mu9sg4k]

Gonna do this later 🥺

[@crepitus8422]

Nize

[@sukritidanspiritual6913]

Can you please make a video on drawing hand

[@user-ee5hj3fb4o]

If you‘re drawing on pc or laptop, what Programm are you using ?

[@darelantonio9114]

It's like ur reading my mind

[@dullboy475]

Yay

[@animeforevergaming5122]

What about easy anatomy and gesture for male legs

[@16mar_ian]

i love you😭😭❤🇫🇷

[@Koel_Hellion]

This is really helpful and all but I thought you where gonna do the pose in the thumbnail I've been trying to do that one for a long ass time lol

[@goofythetv6584]

Hey quick question what are some drawing apps that u recommend me like drawing apps on PC

[@koizu]

Photoshop is great, been using it for many years. Recently, I've been having a lot of fun with Clip Studio Paint (using it in these videos).

[@goofythetv6584]

@@koizu alright I’ll check them out thanks

[@atten9306]

As a beginner i'm always end up with flat foreshortening .. can make a video / topic about how to get into dynamic foreshortening ?? I always endup make the foreshortening shrink and long rathen than foreshortening . I want to manage the proportion and scale in space that look believable .. i know it takes time .. some time i know it's wrong , but i don't how and where should fix any tips ?

[@koizu]

That would be a great idea for a video! Foreshortening is one of the most challenging things to draw. I'll think of a video I can do for that. What things are you trying to foreshorten? is it the arms? body?

[@atten9306]

@@koizu thanks it would be help other people who struggling with foreshortening ,looking forward for that !! for me is about the like a whole pose that looking from certain angles.

[@koizu]

gotcha! sounds like maybe some tips on drawing the body in perspective may help too?

[@atten9306]

@@koizu yeah that would be help too !! That's what i mean since we talk about foreshortening , figure in perspective can be mean as foreshoretening too

[@joylexx2608]

Will you do tutorials on paper again or will it stay digital?

[@koizu]

next video may be with traditional :)

[@Rosie.L08]

Your voice still reminds me of kabuto from Naruto

[@animepabu5526]

I’ve only actually learned how to draw the torso up of males and now I’m just like...uhhhh for the legs. They are for some reason really difficult for me to accomplish. Mainly figuring out their proportion

[@Rorthgamer2XD]

Front view : 1 Draw a upside down Circle triangle 2 Draw a upside down Circle triangle Again But Under it 3 Draw a Weird triangle 4 Details 5 You Got Your Masterpiece Legs

[@user-xn9td2wm2l]

Can u do males and kids?? Not many vids for them... 😞

[@sagerobloxxx9]

Does anyone know if theres a name to this style of art and if so what’s the name?

[@titissou1363]

Thanks 😀😀 My favorit song i sing to draw is Mozart Sorry for thé fault because i m french

[@koizu]

That sounds so relaxing!

[@sijanshrestha7988]

How to draw eyes

[@Craig7192]

It's been 10 thousand years...

[@koizu]

yes! haha

[@luminescent1606]

One question comes to mind to me when drawing legs *"HIPPITY HOPPITY HOW THICC SHALL I MAKE YOUR THIGHBOTTY?"*

[@hahah8525]

First

[@koizu]

hey wassup Keverrie

[@rachelaycock]

Face anatomy pls

[@adigal9988]

arms

[@anon5664]

From a very young age i wanted to draw characters and have people praise me but i was very bad at it so i satrted to work on it and look at things from a different perspective and I found a way but for some reason people couldnt see my drawing and would say there's nothing drawn there. I DONT KNOW WHY SOMEONE WHO KNOWS PLEASE TELL ME WHERE DID I GO WRONG

[@retro_fusion6376]

Could you also do an arms video pls I'm struggling 😢😠

[@koizu]

Hi Retro_fusion, did you see my last video on arms and body? I drew some arms in there. Another more in-depth video for arms in the future sounds good too.

[@retro_fusion6376]

@@koizu no 😅thanks for the reply koizu

[@Zhinoi]

Well, we hit the third video guys... See you next year 😞

[@koizu]

we're in uncharted waters now :)

[@robsensisay1185]

wow for the legs but what about hands and fingers their the hardest for plenty of guys

[@koizu]

I am thinking about doing a hands video in the near future :)

[@KrewWaffle]

Hmm probably the body

[@Atomic-toons00]

Aaaand boom thighs

[@macklin1665]

U missed me graduating high school. Big sad

[@Dbzlatino27]

Koizu you have some tips to break down this image?? becuase its almost impossible to me to actually see throught the picture for some basics forms in this position. This is the image instagram.com/p/CGkLHyupZbg/

[@koizu]

I posted a sketch for you to my Instagram on how I would break down the image. Hope it helps! :) instagram.com/mikekoizumi

[@Dbzlatino27]

@@koizu You are awesome dude , i comment in your post thank you so much ,my name in insta its godslayer271 its different than here, this poses are so difficult when i cant see really well the torax and hips its becomes so much fruststing and hard to figuring out a way of see the shapes to conform the pose but you really help me. Im always trying to push me doing really dinamics poses that are out of my confort zone but sometimes i hir a wall and i dont find the solution by myselft , but having someobe like you its helps A LOT , one more thabk you so much. Maybe in a future when you have free time can maybe do a video to apply in more detail this forms in really crazy or difficult poses . You are awesome

[@koizu]

@@Dbzlatino27 my pleasure! It's great that you're always pushing yourself! When you face new challenges and like you said, get out of your comfort zone, that's when you know you're growing and expanding your skills. Thanks for the idea for a video-- would be great to do a challenge video with difficult poses. I'll add that to my list :)

[@Dbzlatino27]

@@koizu i will be waiting for that video ;P thanks

[@shakeelthomas1660]

I must be dreaming

[@koizu]

It's all real haha. Wassup Shady

[@jahlil619]

Hi

[@koizu]

Hi Patato!

[@nazqkui]

So you just.. Draw them?

[@chiefswiggum]

why is every leg tutorial for women and not men.

[@souhi1027]

arms and body tutorial was more better :(((

[@kaksspl]

You barely explain anything at all :v "How to draw a leg? Draw thigh, lower leg and foot. Here, a leg." No shit.