How to Draw Turkey Legs & Feet

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you easy ways to draw turkey cartoons for this holiday season. Right now, our turkey looks as if it's floating in space. It's a hovercraft turkey. So to get rid of that effect, we need to add in some legs and feet. Legs and feet are pretty easy. What you are going to do is, right under the wing area, you are going to draw a couple of lines there and not too far up, right about like where the main body goes, draw a couple more lines there. Then we are going to draw in some back claws here and then three front toes there. Now, another thing you can do is also put in a little lighter lines along the legs, kind of denoting the skin texture that the turkeys have. That's an option. You don't necessarily have to do that. But what you don't want to do is just draw one leg, or draw one leg that is dramatically shorter than the other. You want, basically, a nice even heel going across this line here. I mean, kind of think about it as if your turkey was basically sitting on a board to help you get the angles right for your turkey. "