The text provides step-by-step instructions on how to draw legs and feet as part of composing a human body. The explanation emphasizes proportions, shapes, and balancing, with references to techniques for sketching and combining elements to form a body. It includes detailed instructions for creating a figure by starting with the legs, described as vital structural elements of the human figure.
THE FIRST PART
Since I have already shown the method of painting feet and hands well, I want to advance by teaching how to make the legs and feet together in one composition, so that a body can be formed. Because the legs are the columns of the human body, I begin with them up to the knees, as they are one of the four parts of the body. By this method, you will then create a similar figure, meaning for figure A. This will serve to make the trunk, by adding a triangle of such a form, divided into four parts: one for the heel, one for the ankle, and the other where the joints of the feet begin, to then create the back of the leg, follow the same steps, and firstly make two parallel lines, and then add the ball, adding a triangle, and now it will shorten it, because the leg with the foot can turn around & change. It's necessary that it be sketched in a certain way and the other leg will be like the others, but when you reach the bend, make the shape of a long square, and an oval, and carefully draw inside the foot, you'll find correctly the shape & design.
In a similar way, this teaches to depict the feet and to create a whole one, considering the shapes and the balancing of the human body. And by this, you will correctly find the way of composing the figure, and this will provide stability, balance, and proportion.