Chapter Two Elongating the Figure using Verticals, Horizontals, and Diagonals The phrase "from head to toe" is appropriate in discussing the verticals, horizontals, and diagonals in the figure. In this chapter you will learn how to recognize these characteristics in the figure and how to use them to enable you to draw a graceful figure over which the eye will move easily. This is an important characteristic of lifestyle illustration, especially when drawing a figure to show clothing to best effect. In every pose you will find a combination of verticals, horizontals, and diagonals that you can use to stylize and elongate the figure. Most lifestyle and fashion figures are stylized and elongated because this is accepted as the best way to show off the clothes--on the same tall figures that dominate the catwalk. Having said that, in today's lifestyle market all sizes and variations are valid and you may not always have to elongate, or only to a very subtle degree. For this