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How to Draw a Sitting Cross Legged
Draw a sitting cross legged in 14 easy steps, about 11 minutes. Free, with a printable worksheet.
Each picture adds one red line. Draw that line, then scroll to the next picture. Rub out any dashed helper lines at the end. First up: the head.
Step 1: The head
Near the top of your paper, in the middle, draw an egg for the head, narrower at the chin.
Tip Leave the lower half of the page for the body and the crossed legs.
Step 2: The face
Draw 2 big eyes, a nose and a smile. Start a C ear each side, ending on the head.
Step 3: Tufty hair
Start above the left ear and draw round tufts over the head, down to the right ear. Add a hairline.
Step 4: Neck and T-shirt
Draw 2 short neck lines. From them draw a T-shirt with short sleeves pointing out, down to a flat bottom.
Step 5: Arms reaching out
From each sleeve draw an arm slanting down and out, getting thinner towards the wrist.
Tip The arms make an upside-down V, like a tent.
Step 6: Mitten hands
On the end of each arm draw a round mitten hand. Add a short curved thumb line inside.
Step 7: Front leg
Start at the T-shirt corner. Draw out round the knee, along the shin and back up. Stop halfway.
Tip The leg folds at the knee and gets thinner towards the ankle.
Step 8: Front shoe
On the end of the shin draw a shoe with a round toe. Add a curved toe line.
Tip Keep the bottom of the shoe flat, ready for the floor.
Step 9: Back leg
Start at the other T-shirt corner. Draw the same leg on the right. Stop at the shoe and the shin.
Tip This shin goes behind the first one and behind the shoe.
Step 10: Back shoe and floor
Under the left shin draw a round shoe toe peeking out. Add a toe line and a long floor line.
Tip Each foot tucks under the other knee.
Step 11: Peach skin, pink cheeks
Colour a pink circle on each cheek. Colour the face, ears, neck, arms and hands peach around them.
Tip Leave the eyes white.
Step 12: Yellow T-shirt, red shoes
Colour the T-shirt yellow and the 2 shoes red.
Step 13: Blue trousers
Colour both folded legs blue, right up to the T-shirt.
Step 14: Brown hair
Colour the hair brown. Now you can sit cross-legged just like your drawing!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a sitting cross legged, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
