alijning to objects to reto them

Hi im following the monster modeling video but using my own character. Im trying to align the cylinder with my character right leg so i can practice the shrink wrap retopologie method. The problem is ive set my curser to origin so as in the tutorial. and now when i move my cylinder to put it around the right leg, it is always way of in different viewpoints. The cylinder seems to always be behind my character. see attachment.

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dragon retopology positioning help 1.blend (5.51 MB)

It’s because the dragon object has x-ray turned on in the display settings


Also it might be easier to position the cylinder mesh with volume snapping and snapping the median on it, moving one ring at a time