Mommy Long Legs and her family from Poppy Playtime are popular (and creepy!) characters — Baby Long Legs is a smaller version with the signature stretchy, bendy long limbs and a wide grinning face. Part of the 6-minute 100 Days Sketching Challenge. (A spooky-fun one for older kids!)

🖍️ What You Need

  • Pencil and eraser
  • Pink or purple markers
  • White for the face and eyes
  • Black pen for outlines

How to Draw Baby Long Legs Step by Step

  1. Draw the head — a rounded head shape. The Long Legs characters have a large, expressive face as the main feature.
  2. Add the big eyes — two large round eyes with pupils and highlights, giving a wide, slightly unsettling stare.
  3. Draw the wide grin — a very wide, curling smile across the lower face, often showing teeth. This big grin is a signature of the Long Legs family.
  4. Add the small body — a relatively small, simple body beneath the head.
  5. Draw the extremely long, bendy limbs — the defining feature! Draw arms and legs that are very long, thin, and curling/coiling like springs or stretched elastic. They can loop and bend in impossible ways.
  6. Add hands and feet — rounded hands and feet at the ends of the stretchy limbs.
  7. Add texture — the Long Legs characters have a slightly shiny, rubbery look. A few highlight lines suggest the stretchy material.
  8. Colour — pink or purple body with a paler face, white eyes, and a wide grin.
💡 Parikshet's Tip: The whole point of the Long Legs characters is the impossibly LONG, BENDY limbs — draw them curling, looping, and stretching in ways that real arms and legs never could. The contrast between the cute grinning face and the unnaturally stretchy limbs is what makes the character both fun and creepy.

🌟 Did You Know?

The Long Legs characters come from Poppy Playtime, a horror puzzle game set in an abandoned toy factory. Their stretchy, elastic limbs are inspired by real stretchy toys — the kind you can pull and they spring back. Despite being horror characters, the bright colours and toy-like designs made them hugely popular fan-art subjects among young gamers in the early 2020s.

Drawing Stretchy Characters

  • Impossibly long limbs — far longer than any real arm or leg
  • Bendy and coiling — limbs loop and spring like elastic
  • Rubbery sheen — highlight lines suggest stretchy material
  • Cute-but-creepy face — a wide grin and big eyes

🎯 Try This: Draw the Long Legs Family

  1. Draw Baby Long Legs using this guide.
  2. Add Mommy Long Legs — bigger, with even longer stretchy limbs.
  3. Show their limbs coiling and looping around each other.
  4. Set them in a spooky abandoned toy factory background.