stick figure

stick figure

A crude drawing of a person (or animal) in which the arms and legs are represented by simple straight lines with a circle for a head. I've got absolutely no artistic talent, so a stick figure is about as good as I'm going to be able to do. The young boy different stick figures to represent his mother, father, baby brother, and pet dog.
See also: figure, stick
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • stick man
  • the/an/(one's) artistic style
  • feel (one's) legs
  • feel your legs
  • jelly
  • be like jelly
  • be/feel like jelly
  • feel like jelly
  • pillars to the temple
  • get up on hind legs
References in periodicals archive
Raleigh (North Carolina) [United States], Mar 28 ( ANI ): A seventh-grader in the US southeastern state North Carolina was reportedly suspended post sketching a picture of stick figures holding guns and knives.
Caption: Figure 2: Student's stick figure dressed for spring.
Just as women may be more conscious of their otherness (even when they obtain a slight majority in the population), so a black, Spanish-speaking lesbian will be more inclined to note such distinctions in her ego stick figure list of descriptors.
Alaska residents are invited to create up to three stick figures made out of anything--photos on #StickFigureAK's website include crab leg, fishing lure, and snow stick figures.
The stars of the scorpion are now morphing from a stick figure into the shape of the actual celestial creature.
New York-based Stick Figure makes documentary and reality TV programmes, which have been broadcast by networks such as Home Box Office Inc, ESPN Inc and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
His new creation looks similar to the original but adds a stick figure pushing the classic wheelchair symbol.
Had James Thurber worked in animation, the waggish result might look and sound a bit like "It's Such a Beautiful Day," indie cartoonist Don Hertzfeldt's alternately poignant and absurdist triptych, which seamlessly joins three long-gestating short films into an hourlong rumination on the nature of existence as seen through the eyes of a stick figure named Bill.
A computer then analyses the scans and alerts airport staff where to look for hidden objects using a stick figure diagram.
Grow Web Video will be offering six styles of explainer videos: Infographic, Cartoon animation, Whiteboard scribing, Stop-motion animation, Stick figure animation, and Screencasts.
No, he sketched on paper a stick figure holding a pistol.
But the television network also reported on Friday that TSA is testing new X-ray technology that would show a "stick figure" instead of a passenger's full-body image.
In addition, Jamison Odone has created a special drawing of his Alice stick figure without hair to publicize fundraising efforts of 46 Mommas who are mothers of children with cancer working to raise funds and awareness of children cancer victims and their needs.
Taunton, Massachusetts, public school officials sent home a second grader December 2 for drawing a stick figure of Jesus on the cross, according to his mother and father, after his teacher instructed the class to draw an image that reminded them of Christmas.
Gaby's recurrent use of the stick figure is fascinating in that it points towards the artist as a person, and not his pencil.