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    This is what helps you make sure that a full figure fits on the paper.

    The studies of the real human proportions show that the average height of full human figure (from top of head to ankles) is usually seven heads. It takes three "heads" to make up a torso and other three "heads" to make up legs. Taller a human is, more stretched its body and legs are while shorter a human is, shorter its body and legs are.

1. Use your fingers or a measuring rule to size up the head, and use the size of a head to produce the length of a torso by marking the horizontal lines of "chest", "bellybutton"  and "crotch", and another three heads to mark the length of the legs. If you run out of space, redo the head by making it smaller so to fit seven "heads" on the paper.
    This is where you can actually modify the horizontal lines. If you want long legs, just reduce the size of torso, and that will automatically stretch the legs. If you want a really big torso and puny legs, you can just stretch out the torso, automatically shortening the legs. ^_^; For example, it seems that by greatly shrinking the space between "Bellybutton" and "Crotch" without changing the size of upper torso results in very long legs and very short skirts as observed in the Sailor Moon anime series.
    So have fun deciding on the sizes between the horizontal lines. ^_^