... facts.✎ The male figure isabout three head-widths wide at theshoulders and onlyabout two to two-and-a-half wide at the hips.✎ The female figure isabout two to two-and-a-half head widths ... beautiful fig-ure drawing. This is just an exer-cise to show how to use the pro-portions to set up a drawing. Figure 1.12 The female figure seen from the front, side, and back Figure 1.13 The ... Human Figure An eight-heads-high figure mightbe the ideal height, but in somecases it might not be ideal enough.Fashion drawings, for example,may use a character that is closerto eight-and-a-half...