How To Draw ANIMALS for Kids

1. Animals Intro : Hey guys, I met on the father, and this is how to draw animals scary. In this course, we use simple shapes to help you define the animal. But you'll notice with each animal, shapes are gonna change a little bit, always customized to the different species. Not only will you learn how to copy and draw side by side, but you also learn how to change the pope's. Some animals might be drawn in a bit of a cartoon style, but we also explore a little bit more of a realistic approach. Just a fair warning, though this course for animals is designed to follow our how to draw basics for kids, that one is designed to go over fundamentals that help you in all the courses that fall. So be sure to join us as Julie and I walk you through all the different ways of drawing Adams. Let's get to it 2. Drawing the Hippo: Hey, hey guys. Here we are with the first unit of how to draw animals. I'm Ed and jelly. And we're going to take you through this step-by-step, one animal one at a time, right? You're going to find that somebody's first units that are a little bit easy. But as we get going, they're going to get a little bit more difficult. And hey, listen, before you even start this, I really hope that you've done are how to draw basics course. We cover some really important stuff in there like, you know, just basic shapes and stuff that practice techniques. And if you don't have a down, you know, these kind of more advanced courses are going to get tougher for you, okay? So make sure you're practicing some of those basic shapes. Okay, so let's get into it, or animal number one. What is this I have now? Is there a longer name for it? Hippo. I didn't call that would be a difficult test for you. I don't know. Hippo. Okay. Well, hippos are kinda awesome, right? Yeah. What I like to do whenever we're approaching drawing some type of animal or anything, is to look at some of the basic shapes. For this one though. We're looking at this hippo from head on, right? Okay, so we've got one really glaring basic shape and if I'm going to draw over it, it would be right here. It would be this circle, this big circle right in the middle. Okay? So that's one basic shape off of that circle. We've kinda got the legs coming down, lakes coming down, right? We've got the circle that makes up the head. It's actually a half circle, just the top half. And then we've got almost as kinda circle that's coming below but ends up kinda cutting in under, under the mouth a little bit. All right, so let's see if we can draw some of this off to the side here and see if this makes any sense. Okay, So we want a big circle for the body. Okay. Do you want to draw it off to the side a little bit? Yeah. I just finished students. We've got a big circle for the body there. All right? We've got a smaller circle for the head. And then we're going to have a huge circle for the mouth, maybe almost the size of the body. Write something really big there, okay. Then we can kinda rough in the feet. You can draw it as one big box and then just cut it down the middle if you want. And that kinda works. There's our rough hippo. What do you think? Does it look like a hippo so far? Yeah. Yeah. Kind of big and round, right? Yeah. Yeah. That works. Little squiggly tail off to the side. And are we done? No, no towns. And let's throw in some actual details. Okay, So where do we want to start? I like to start with the things that are closest to us. So I'm going to start on the nose slash muzzle area or something like that. Okay. So we can come in, we can do this little ridge of the nose here, right? We can follow our circle around. But it kinda comes in here, right? So it's, we're following it around here and we can make it nice and even. And then it comes in around the mouth here. It comes back around this side. Okay, that's not bad. Right? Then we've got these two big hippo teeth coming down here. You can make them bigger if you want. And then a little chin coming out the bottom. That kind of follows are the rest of our circle all the way around a little bit there, right? You can put little spotty hairs coming off of it if you like, you know. Okay. Okay. From the top here, we can follow our circle, round. And it's going to be the top of the hippos head. Pretty cute. We can draw on to little eyes up top here. And we can, if we want, we can draw two little, cute little ears. You're going to notice. They don't go like this or anything wall. Kind of they've got this a little bit. They come up with this bridge here, and then they flop back down again, right? So you can come up with a bridge and then flop back down again. If you want to, you can come in and kind of erase a little bit so that it looks like they're coming out to the front of the head. It depends if if this is here, it just looks like the ears are a little bit further back. That's not a bad thing. Okay. Okay. So what's next as I'm working back well, you know what, I could finish off this nostril or the muzzle nose here and put in two circles that are kind of above the teeth and put in some cute little whisker pores. It looks like freckles, but they're not. Right. Okay. Have you ever seen a hippo in real life? No, I have not. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Sure. Me too. I remember one time I was a guest at a zoo and I got the pet, the hippos. Are those really awesome? Okay, So what's next? What we've got the body and what we can do if we really want, is. Follow in our original big circle, right? We could follow it all the way around. From the top up here. Follow that big circle all the way around, right? You could follow it in one line. You can add it in if you want. You can do it all the way to the belly if you want, that's okay. We might have to erase some things, right? What we could do is kinda, this sketch has a little bit of a tick below the legs. You don't have to put that in there though. And then come down and delay eggs. And do one foot and come up, come down into the other one, and do another foot and come up. Okay. So we can see there is in this area, there's this little divot that kinda separates the legs a little bit, right? And if you want, you can do like how they did the feet here. You can do it kinda like bumping like toenails and stuff like that. Toenails little bit better. I think it looks cuter. Okay. And if you really want, you can come in here and erase. This part of the body is the original sketch shows. So it just shows kinda the the underbelly here and stuff, right? Not bad. And then the last one is this cute little squiggly tail, right? It looks like a fixed Hale. Those look, I actually think they're a little bit related. Oh, you know what I was going to say about hippos is I remember petting one and the sweat on its back was read. Out of each little pore, each little hole there was like a little jelly red bubble and that's the sweat that they produce or whatever and stuff, right? So it's this weird jelly Venus going on was kinda awesome though. I really liked that. Lie. Something about protecting the skin against the heater mosquitoes are bugs are some. I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was called sunblock kinda. Yeah. Okay. So here's our hipbone before and after. I think that looks pretty good. What I would do is probably if this was my drawing and I wanted to send it to somebody or something, you know, what I might do is go in and clean up the lines just a little bit, make them a little cleaner, a little darker. I might even come in and erase some of the sketches that I did. I might trace it over again, but that's not what I want you to do for this. Don't worry about cleaning it all up. You know, you can, if you want to, if you want to get rid of some of your sketches, hopefully you sketch them really light so they're easy to erase and stuff, right? But if not, don't worry about it, what I really expect you to do is I expect you to draw this Hippo a couple of times. You know, maybe you're going to draw it once, following along to me and Joey. Maybe you just do it on your own one time and see if you can do it. Okay. How's your hippo? He skinnier than I expected. I guess, much more vertical and horizontal. Gotcha. Otherwise, he's just a tall HIPAA. Yeah. Yeah. There are different body types and body shame. This hippo right now, I think it looks really good. So guys at home, I hope that you understand that we're starting with some very basic shapes and then expanding off of there. Okay, so start with those shapes. Lightly sketch them out, and then start to add in some of those finishing lines. And worst-case scenario. We went a little bit fast for you. You can just throw us on pause or rewind and do it again. You know, just have fun with it and practice it a little bit. 3. Drawing the Giraffe: Hey guys, I'm Ed, and we're back with another how to draw animals unit for you. We're gonna make sure we take our time with this one too, because there's a lot of pieces involved in this guy. So what do we draw next joint at your That's right, but kind of a cartoonish style of a giraffe, right? Like some, something simplified. So you'll notice with our animals here, we're starting really simple. And then they're going to grow as we go on. Okay, so it's always good to start simple, nothing wrong with that. Okay, so let's look at some basic shapes. I like to kind of work my way up, work my way down. In this case, I'm going to work my way down. And I'm going to look for what's the first shape we've got going on here. We've got almost a square, a square with rounded, Here's a square, right? But this one's got the rounded edges to it, right? So we've got this kinda square with rounded edges for the head, right? And you can see it connects down. There's this and a rectangle shape connecting down into the body. A nice big oval for the body. And then we can use these cute little ovals for the lakes. You can even draw through if you want. You don't want drawing through means. You know, I do. Oh, yeah. Do. What is it? It's when you draw something behind 34? Yeah. Like, you know, this lay here is in the front right. So we wouldn't see all of this leg and the back, but I still draw through because I want to just get the form right that this is still going to be an oval. It's still going to be this shape going on the other side of the body, even though I can't see all of it, we're drawing through the body so that we can see it. Okay, so that's where the term drawing through meats. All right, Well, it seems that we've got most of the pieces already said, why don't we kinda rough it in off to the side and listen. I hope you guys are following along at home. Okay, so there we've got our rough kinda square, but I'm going to come around the edges a little bit, right? I've got this kinda rectangle coming down somewhere around here and see how I'm drawing through him not being that careful, right? Yeah. Please go on their joy. I'm drawing the rectangle for them. Okay, good enough. Next is going to be attached to the neck here. We're going to have an oval for the body. What made him kind of fat. That's okay. Next, we can do kind of one leg, two legs, three legs, four legs. And that's pretty much where all the pieces are gonna go. Okay. Now, if you wanted to, you can kind of make the neck longer, makes the head smaller, and then you're starting to get into a more, you know, the longer the neck, it's going to start to look a little bit more realistic in the proportions, right? But this one still pretty cartoony. So let's see if we can keep it cartoony. Why don't we go ahead and add some ears, some cute little horns now listen. You can do them this way with some thickness there. Or you can do them how they've got him just to stick with a little circle on the end. And then you could come down and round out the face, bringing it up to the ear. And then connect over here. Connect over here if you want. There we go. Okay, Now where was the eyes? The eyes, here's the square, right? Here's the square. And here's, you know, if I was to kind of cut it in half this way, cut it in half this way. So if I was to do the same over here, the eyes would be kind of on that level, right? And these eyes are just cute little black circles. Cool. Okay, nice to keep that in there. And then we can kind of put the bit of the muzzle of the mouth across here, put them off underneath. Not bad. Okay, Now we're going to pay a little bit close attention to how we're going through this. Because this is a little bit important, how we do this. The lines as we're coming down here are going to be smooths. They can follow and be smooth. And they're going to follow into this lake. It's going to follow underneath and into this leg. And then it's going to come up around the butt and then up into the neck. So you can see how smooth on being on some of these, you know, I'm kinda just following the general curve of it. All right. Then we can see on the other side, if we're drawing through, do you remember we're not going to draw through because we've already got it rough. Er we can see where the other foot would be and the other leg would be on the other side of the body? Right. Okay. So what are we missing? Well, we've got the horns up top here, but we're missing the tail. So you can do the tail. It almost looks like a little bit of a leaf type of thing. And you do these little, cute little things that are supposed to be the hubs feet on it, right? Okay. This guy's looking cute so far I like a guy's neck is really long and skinny. Well, that kind of fits because we're drawn a draft, right? You know, like so long and skinny for a neck or I would say that's a pretty safe bet. That's what we're supposed to be going for it. Yeah. Okay. But I feel like my giraffe is missing something. What spots right. Giraffes have spots, right? If you're gonna do detailed spots, you would make them patterned or something like that. But because this is a really simplified kind of cartoony version, you can just draw little circles and stuff for the spots. Okay, so go ahead and do the spots. Generally, you don't put the spots on the underbelly. You don't put the spots down here. You might put them kinda have these ovals going along the back. So you design how you want them. You can have some big ones, communism, but small ones. It's up to you how you want to do it, right? And then usually what I like to do is just do one little hard outline. The halo. That halo effect of doing an outline around the whole figure and making it look like a little bit of a sticker type thing, right? How's yours? Come enjoy. I'm doing right now. All good. Yeah. So I'm going pretty fast. Yeah, that's good. You know what if we're going too fast for you guys at home? What do you do? Onset and rewind. Pause it, rewind. Well, I'll just pause it and see if you want to catch up or something like that. And if you miss something, hit that rewind button, There's nothing wrong with hitting that Rewind. That's the whole reason you're watching this on video. Sometimes when you're in class with a teacher, you can't get that question asked or something like that. They're moving too fast for you. Well, don't worry about it with these videos. The video moves as fast as you want it to. Okay? So you can rewind it, you can slow it down, you get stop it, do whatever you want. Almost undoing. Almost just finishing up. Okay. So what do we do? We start with a bit of the sketch, right? We put the neck in the body, feet, feet, feet, feet. And then we start to plot in where everything is going to go. You can do it many different times. And if you want to start switching things around, you know, have the head out here or something, see if that makes a difference, right. Had the feet moving like they're walking a little bit or something? Right. Okay. So you can play with it a little bit if you want. Do it the same way we did it the first time. But if you want to do it again, you've only got the basic pieces, the square or the rectangle, these ovals and stuff like that. And then you can start messing around. Okay, joy, Let's see yours. Yeah. I think that worked pretty well. Small body, long neck. Yeah. And it's still cute, right? My God, I got kind of fatter than the original one. But I think he turned out really cute actually, I like how might my guy looks here in software? Yeah. Okay guys, I hope that you enjoyed this lesson on giraffes, and I hope that you take some extra time, even after this done, maybe watch it one more time and make sure you practice some of these basics. Have fun guys. 4. Drawing the Leopard: Hey guys, we're back and we've got another animal for you here. Unfortunately, Joe and I are arguing over what type of animal this is. So hold on. Before we even say, I want you to look at this animal in front of you and shout out what they've animal it is. Let's hear it. Okay. That's your guess, right? Joy, what's your guess? Yeah. I think that's the key. Now see, I think it's a leopard. Why do you think it's a cheetah? Because a hotspots. So leopards, I don't like them. Oh my goodness. Okay. Anyways, working on a big cat, this one is going to be much harder than a lot of the other animals that you worked on so far. Okay, so this, as we do these units in this course, they get harder and harder. And this is the first step into a harder looking animal. Okay? More complex design, right? Some of the ones we did before just seemed a little easy. A little symbol, right? This one's going to be just that little bit harder. Okay, so what do we do when we first look at a new figure and or anything? How do we approach it, right? Find the basic shapes. That's right, we find the basic shapes. So let's go to it. The first basic shape will do is the head. I'm just going to go over this head a little bit and make kind of an AIG. Okay. So nice and easy egg inside your upside down? Yeah. Yeah. Kind of. Yeah. After that, I'm going to come into basically the torso and make the rib-cage another kind of AIG, right? And then after that, I'm going to come back here and make a circle for the hips. Okay, So if I was to draw this off to the side here, there'd be this upside down AIG kinda thing. And it was an oval. Down here would be the ribcage and then behind it would be a smaller hip symbol, right? Yep. Okay. Now this is where it's gonna get kind of tricky. Okay. Is when it comes to the lakes, you know, animal legs are not always the same as human beings. We could think of them as similar, but there's a lot more things going on with them, right? So what we're gonna do is we're going to as, as if we're drawing shoulders. We're going to draw these kinda circles in where the shoulder might start. So if you remember from the basics course when we talked about simplified stick man, we drew a shoulder in there for these animals. That's how we're going to approach. We're going to draw this shoulder, this top one in the front here. The shoulder here. We're going to come down to what would be an elbow, come down to what would be a wrist. And then off of that is going to be the foot. So if you remember the words, draw through, we're kinda drawing on the other side of the animal right now. As if we were drawing through to the elbow down to what would be the wrist and then that foot. Right. So let's try it up here, just again, down to the elbow, down to what would be the wrist and the Nepal and then through on the other side. And that's how that would look. Okay. Okay. Next one is the back, basically same kind of thing from this hip down to the knee down to what would be your wrist? Yeah. But then it comes down into the Paul this way. We'll do it on the side again, out to the knee, back to what would be the wrist and then down into the Paul. While we try that up here, it's called a dog's leg, basically, you'll hear that expression a few times down to this. And then like that. Yeah. It's kinda like gets caught like an extra practice. Yeah. Right. It feels a little bit like that, but it doesn't it's just the way that animals in how their wrists and pause or formulate and stuff like that. In reality, this is similar to our foot and these are the totals. This would be the foot and these would be the toes. Is that just for hind legs? Usually. Often, yeah. Often for the hind legs but you can kinda depending on how the formation is for the front, Paul as well on these animals, right? It changes just a little bit, but so you could think of it almost like this is the foot, like here's the heel and then he hears the toes and everything. Right. Okay. So what do we do? We have a backbone that comes through here, comes along here, and then comes out. For the tail. We have a backbone that comes along here, comes through here, comes up for the tail. Geez, you know what? This is really looking like a cat. It's looking like some type of animal. Yeah. I think especially with this stay on looping up there. Right? So that's why it's important to try to get the, the basic skeletons down, right, these simplified skeletons and stuff. How's yours go enjoy so far. Good. It just looks like a big cat. Okay. Yeah. It's hard to see where the shoulder start off on these guys and stuff like that. But you can see if I wanted to, you could make it more realistic or something like that, right? I don't know. You're looking for it, the center lines on some of this stuff, but this one is cartoony, so the eyes are really up, up top here, the nose is up here, that type of thing. You want to try to draw it off to the side again. Yeah. It's okay. Let's see if we can do this. I'm going to just back it up just a little bit. We're going to have the head up here with the eye line and the nose line and maybe a central line going down. They're going to have the ribcage, right? Me going to have the hip behind here. Remember the ribcage seems so much bigger right here. The hip is smaller. Okay. And if we want to, we can even connect them. I can go from here and draw the backbone as it comes out. And I kinda didn't leave myself enough room here for the tail. But that's okay because I've kind of sketched out a few times already here. Right now, the front shoulders, this is going to come to the elbow, come down to the Paul, right? This one's going to come back and come down to the poll here. This backbone from the hip will come down and it's kind of like an L. You can imagine this L shape and then come down into the foot. And the Paul, same one does. Well, she was gonna kinda go like this though, come down to the palm. So you can have this L-shape, right? And then into the Paul L-shape in Paul. I was used to look at I drew it too close to the edge. You know what? That's something that happens tons, right? Um, if you're on paper, you've got a few choices. You know, if, if this is your paper and you know, you've got to fit your figure in here. While you start to kind of plot it in, you start to say, okay, well this is how much room I need or something like that, right? Digitally, I can do a little trick. I can come in here, grab it, and then move it over, right? That's the cool thing about working on iPads or, or things like that. And you can, you can have a little bit of that ability to edit or digital. But hey, listen, we draw on paper just as much as we draw on these tablets and stuff again. So I know what can happen sometimes when you've got two choices plotted out correctly the first time, or place it right, or just realized, Whoops, It's off the paper. I actually know a third choice there. You know, what you could really do is, I've seen people do this and you kind of attach another piece of paper, right? So you'll see some people that have like two or three sections of paper that are attached to each other? I think it's fine. I think it's okay if you're just sketching and stuff, right. But I don't know, we're just sketching here anyway, so it doesn't really matter. You can erase things. I'm hoping that when you're sketching, you're doing it really lightly. Okay, So why don't we get in here, draw some darker lines here. I like to start at the face, right? We can have the nose, kind of triangle B with this little, little thing going on here, comes up to the eye level. And then the eyes can just kinda come off of it, right? And maybe you, the eyes looking in this direction seems to be wanting to look at this way. The head is up top. And you know what? I'm gonna just the muscle round that are little shape here so that it's outlined. And I'm going to do it. A funny little thing off to the side here. Now, the rest of the face doesn't necessarily follow this oval. It starts to go away from it, right? It starts down to branch out and then go back up to it. So it comes out to some hair and then kinda comes up here. And then there's an IRA up here, right? Depending on how realistic you want it to look or whatever and stuff. Okay. So you can come off to the side. It's just these kinda hair and whiskers coming off a little bit. And it comes up to this side here, comes up. And it's a nice, funny looking here. Then if you want to have these whiskers coming off of it, I'm doing them kind of strange, right? You can even put little dots in here if you wanted to write kind of a, I like to have a bit of a heavier brow and we'll define the eyes a little bit more. Okay, so we're going to come, come off here, come down to the chest, little tufts of hair coming off the chest a little bit. And then it's going to come down right into the Nepal here down the leg. Because even though we know where that joint is at, so buried and for sometimes, and we can come out and follow our little, little sketch here for the Paul. Come around to the back of it, come up. And actually sometimes I'll put a little tuft of hair down at the elbow there and it comes up into the body. Following underneath. This is following the ribs. It's gonna get to a tight tummy. Right? Because these cats usually the pretty sleek that way. And before we go too far, I kind of want to carry this down this side on the back here. Do the same thing. Have it come through that midsection up into the hip and then tucking under for them but a little bit. And listen if I'm going too fast or anything, feel free to hit pause. All right. I think Joey, you're really working on that face a lot more, right? You spent a lot more detail on it and stuff. I kind of just goofed around with it and stuff right there. Whereas enjoy spending more time on it right. Now when it comes to this leg, you want to remember this is your fold that L that dog leg, right? You can come around here for the knee. Come down this way and then bring it out. Paul. And then showed the little toes on the pole or whatever, then bring it up around the heel. I guess at this this is kinda heal a wrist or he'll type of thing where and bring it up that way. And then, you know, that again flowing with the backbone in come off to the side here. Do the tail, my tails longer. Usually with these cats they've cutting, got a rounded bit to the end of the tail, right? And so my tail is going to go something along those lines. Even though I move mine, the end of my tails count. Yeah, I'm so whenever room to that's okay. Okay. And then remember what did I say we drew through, right. So we're going to come through where this is not visible, but we're still going to draw them because we know some of it's their data back, hind leg and this back for this front hall and late coming up this way. There we go. Okay. My cat looks a little wiring because of how I did the whiskers and the face, and that's kinda how I wanted them to you. But I am missing something. I'm missing all the spots. So you can go in and I'm going to start to do these kind of spots. You can do them kinda more surplus if you want. Just do them as ovals. Usually those kind of spots are not on the inside of the animal, jeremy, the belly or inside of lakes. They're usually running on the outside a little bit. They can be regular or irregular. They're going to go down the tail. Usually the tip of the tail is colored in and then the spots run the length of the tail and stuff right here. Okay. So we're almost done here and listen, I know this was tough. We've got a little bit on the head here. Maybe even tips of the ears. Sometimes you can do it that way. I know this was tougher than some of the other animals we've approached before. Alright? So if you have to watch it a few times, don't worry, the overall animal, I'm not that stressed about, you know, I mean, like I don't chair that he's perfectly beautiful or anything. You know. What I really want from you guys is to start to get used to a hunting down the skeleton of it. A hunting down that basic frame and stuff, right? That's the tough part, trying to figure out what is the actual design of this animal? Do you? I mean, like what structure does it have and stuff, right? And then being able to be comfortable with that. Because what we're learning here is not just to copy a picture, but how to use that structure so that we could draw as cat in almost any shape or any pose or any situation that we want, right. So what do you think, Joey? How's yours coming here? Looks really tired, but also he's got like a really long torso. Yeah. You think you space it out a little bit too? Yeah. I think so. Like if you take a look at my I feel like I added like maybe a centimeter too much a space in-between stomach. Yeah, that can happen. And, you know, that's that's part of the practices looking at the spacing between our major forms and stuff like that, right? Yeah. I think with my guy rice-based him. Okay. I think he looks pretty good. I just kinda ran out of room. I actually like how mine looks longer. I don't think yours looks too long. Now I'm looking at but maybe maybe yeah. I think it looks a bit too long. Yeah. Yeah. Just maybe the eye can see it. Especially for the size of the head. Your head is quite large and I think too short or something. Yeah. I don't know something about my drawing looks off but it's okay. I know. I think I think you hit it on the head. I think it was the hip is too far back. Yeah. And if I really wanted to, I could just do this. Well, let's see, how would that look? Said make it a little bit that actually that does that makes it just that little bit better right? Now there's the trick. Like I said, if you're on paper, that trick is gonna take you a little bit more time with the erasing and stuff like that, right? Butt. Working digitally. It's just that little bit easier, right? So who knows? Maybe for Christmas, somebody center, somebody, somebody will bring you guys a tablet. If not, don't stress, Don't worry about because all this can be done on paper. And what does it really take doing? What do you really have to do? Know the shapes, right? No, those shapes and just keep practicing it again and again and again, right? Okay guys, I hope this was helpful for you. And keep practicing. 5. Drawing the Lion: Hey, hey guys, we're back. And this is unit number 3 of how to draw animals for kids. Hopefully, you're having fun so far and hopefully it's not too tough on you. Before you start how to draw animals for kids though, you really should have already finished the how to draw basics course. So I hope that you guys have those, those basic skills, you know, drawing rectangles, drawing ovals and all of that. Because if you don't, this course gets a little tough, right? Okay, so we're on to animal number three here. And what is it? That's right. It's Aliant. Where's your R4? Are? I expected a little bit more dramatic, raw or something. Anyways. So we're going to draw a line here and we're looking at some basic, basic parts of this guy. Okay? Now, listen, it's a cartoony lion and it's from the front. We're looking at this line from the front. Okay. So we're not going to see all the pieces of the body, but I'm going to maybe try to show you some of it. Even if we're not going to draw it, we're going to draw through just a little bit, okay? Okay, so the first one is pretty obvious here. We've got this kind of oval for the head. Okay, so I'm going to draw a little mini, mini Lyon off to the side here. We've got that oval for the head. Right? Now. The here're, that's around the head on a male lion. You don't want, it's called a cooked and good guess. It's not a coat or a jacket as getting paid for it. No, what's called a main. So the lion's mane is around his head here. But what I want you to do, to do this main is kinda draw an oval going around. Ok? And there's a reason I want you to do that. So we're gonna kinda have this oval going around. Now you can't see what's going on here, but this lion has a body behind here, somewhere in here. Okay. We're, we're not going to draw that body today. We might draw it as you work on more complex animals. But for this line, It's going to be pretty simple. But if we want to, we can add that in. Maybe I'll show you how to edit it and a little bit later. Okay? Then I'll offer that. You can kinda have like a rectangle, rectangle. And back here would also be kind of a rectangle. And there would actually be another leg behind, you know, remember we're kinda drawing through here, right? So we could have from the front here, we would have one foot, nother foot, and other foot behind, another foot behind. And so you can kinda see how the body sitting there and it, it helps us to draw where those legs might be positioned or something even if we can't see them. That's why we like to draw through the objects sometime. Okay. I think that's like a yes. No, yes, yes, yes. Confusing for me just personally. Yeah. It's like I not that I'm not the best at seen shapes usually. So I'm just going to simply clear yet, you could keep it simple and clear like Joe he's doing here. Just stick to what we see. I just wanted to show you kind of what we don't see. Light if that makes sense. Okay, so let's go off to the side here and you guys can follow along. And we're going to draw the oval for the head, keeping it nice and loose, right? Okay. Around it is going to be a bigger oval for the lion's mane. Now you guys don't have to do this next part. You can follow Joey and not do it or you can follow me. But I'm going to put where the body would be. The body would be somewhere here. Okay. Off of the body, we're going to have a rectangle come down and our rectangle go up. And what are those? The length those are the front lakes. Okay. But then behind, there's going to be another rectangle and another rectangle. What are those? That back leg, the hind legs, that's right. Okay. So we've got this kind of laid out here. We can even, I cut this in half So it, we can see what's going on with the face. But this is the rough animal, right? It looks pretty good so far. Now, let's go in and see if we can do a little bit more of cleaner lines on this okay. Line's not lie on. Okay. Yeah. Well, why don't we put a big nose in the middle here. Okay. And then here's that center line. So on one side of it, you can draw a big round eye and on the other side of it, you can draw big round eyes so you can see how they kinda match up with the edges of the nose right down from there, you're going to draw a straight line to an almost the bottom of our little oval. And then you can sweep up some type of you type shape for the mouth. Yeah. Okay. Now, on either side of the oval, somewhere around here, you can put one ear. Kinda matching it on the other side, another ear. And over top of the oval, you can kinda come over top and connect them. Right? And then you're going to follow down the side, follow down the side. But here's where it gets a little tricky. Down at the bottom here what they have is they have almost like a triangle. It comes down. Like he's wearing a little beard or something. Okay, and you can put these little ticks in there if that helps. Okay. So that was a face looking kinda cute so far, right? If you want to, you can go ahead and add like little whisker ticks and stuff. All right. Well, it makes him look like he's got freckles now. Okay. So wholesome. So wholesome. Nice. Now listen, I put this big circle around for the main, for an eye, for a reason. We're going to start on it. Like say, wherever you want to start, you're gonna go start here, go up in a triangle, down, up in a triangle down. And when you come down, you're kinda coming back down to that oval, right? And, uh, come away from the oval and back down, away and down. And it doesn't have to be perfect. They can be big. They can be little. They can be big. They can be a little big, big, little, little big, medium. Your choice, right? So I want you to go round your oval and kind of put in these big lion type of spikes. And that's the main, you can do them. Like I said, really, really small, really, really big. It's your choice. Okay. We're good. Good. And listen if we're going too fast, make sure you throw it on pause. Just hit that pause button and make sure you're caught up. I don't want to be going ahead of you or anything like that. I want you guys at the same place that I'm at. Next one from the middle line here in between these two feet, you're going to come down, draw straight line down. Okay? Yeah. And then you can go this way and then that way. But first this way we're going to have 123 and then up. Okay. So we're drawing obviously the little toes of the clause, right? Yeah. And you can do the same thing on the other side, 123, and then up. And you can put little claws on there if you want, write the Q. Okay. On the back and kind of follow this leg 1. And you want to, you can even start to draw the clause in there too and have it matching right? Now what I would do, and you don't have to do this because not in the original one is I would kind of followed his belly and put the body in there. Okay. Then I would follow that that thing and put the body and imagine that's his, his belly or is ribcage or something. You don't have to do it though. Okay. It's your choice, guys. Now, our lines looking pretty good but he's missing something here. That's right. I route a room. I'm kinda yeah, I'm really squishy and a little squished on my piece of paper. That happens sometimes right? On. Don't stress if it happened to you or anything like that. The cool thing about working on a computer or a tablet is you can just grab things and move them over. If you're working on your paper, don't stress, just try to plan it out a little bit better next time or whatever. So you can just do a little squiggle and then it almost looks like a little leaf at the end. Like the draft him but longer. Yeah, kinda. And now you can go in and start to do the little haloing, right? Yeah. Especially for these not realistic looking characters. These animals. Having them look like they're animation characters or something like that. I think that halo effect, that sticker looking effect looks really good on them. So you can go in and do all this, just going around the outline of the animal. Okay. Not doing every line. Just doing the outline of it. As yours guy. Pretty good. I'm almost done. All right. Well, I'm pretty fast. Okay. Now if you want to continue the halo for one thing, if you want, you can do the main because main is a main focus, right? That's a dad joke in there somewhere. Yeah, if you're watching this with your dad, he's probably laughing right now. And if you really want to, you know, we're doing these kind of light sketches in a different color. I do that so I can show you guys my construction lines and stuff I get maybe you're only working with the pencil. That's okay. Nothing wrong with just working with a normal pencil. If you want to do your light sketches with like a colored crayon, like a pencil crayon or something like that. That would actually be pretty good because then you can see where your final lines are or where you compared to your sketch lines. But if you want to, you can go in and start to erase them. Jeremy and gravity eraser start to clean them up. Especially if you're going to give this as a like show it to somebody or give it as a present or something. Yeah. Right. You can really go in and clean it up and say, all look, mom, look what I drew and stuff, right. It looks a lot cleaner that way. Okay. Okay. Well, he's only half clean but good enough. So if you guys want, you can go and clean up your sketches. Joey, what's a verdict? How does yours look? Like? How big his nose is and how big it's? Yeah, his nose looks really big in his eyes lit big. I gotta see. When I look at it that way, it kinda looks like a bear. Yeah, That's the feeling I get from yours, right? It looks a little bit more like a bear. Yeah. That's exactly what I was thinking. Kind of think of what it looks like and it looks like a polar bear. So it's interesting how we've talked about how we can change proportions on characters and stuff to have a certain feeling, right? Well, the same thing even with a simple animal like this. If we start to make the nose bigger or make the ears bigger or smaller, or the eyes or something. Yeah. It has a sort of feeling. Right. And that's okay. That's it. There's nothing wrong with that. We just start to look at it and try to understand why does this look different? What's different than than what he drew or the original picture of them. And do I like it, right? And then once you decide you understand, Cool, Now you know, you can do it again. And by doing it again, I mean, practice and that's repeated. That's my number one thing I keep saying, right guys. Okay guys, have fun and keep practicing. 6. Drawing the Rhino: Hey guys, we're back and we've got another How To video for you here in our animals series. This time, we're looking at pretty thick guy. What are we looking at here? Joy? A rhino. That's right. You know the full name? Rhinoceros. Good stuff. Okay. Okay. So we're going to look at the rhinoceros today, right? And you can see how we're starting to get into a little bit more complex of animals. There's a little bit more pieces going on here. Even though it's still a cartoony look, there's more happening, okay? But we're still going to try to see if we can find some very basic shapes here. Okay. I'd like to start with the head of the Rhino. So what I'm looking at, so the head is I'm actually going to draw a bit of an oval here. Okay. That's for the, you know, the muzzle part, the mouth, the cheeks, all of that Tolkien above that is going to be kind of just a little bit of a bump, triangle type of thing, a rounded little hill type of thing. Right? Now, the body behind is going to be big. It's going to be a big oval behind, looks like a big fat sausage or something. Okay. So we can see, we've got this piece, this piece, and then a big, big body behind it, right? It's huge. Okay. Yeah. Next one is going to be the shoulder blades that are going to be another oval. And then the hip, the butt, right. The hip is going to be another oval. Yeah. Okay. I hope you guys are following along at home and listed if I'm going too fast, don't worry about it. We're going to be repeating it off to the side. This is just drawing over the original reference, okay? Yeah. Below the hip, you can see we're kinda going to draw one rectangle here and one rectangle here for their hind legs, for the back legs. And then again, one rectangle here and one rectangle here. Yeah. Okay, So this is going to be hard. This is there's a lot of pieces going on. Yeah, I definitely say this is the hardest animal we've done so far. Even though it's cartoony, there's still so much happening, right? So why don't we bring this off to the side and see if we can draw it. Okay, The first thing I wanna do is start with the body. So I'm going to go with the big kinda fat sausage thing and for the body. Okay. After that, you know, the fat sausage. I don't know if this makes sense, but remember when we were talking about circumference lines, this is the middle of the line, so it's, it's kinda going, the head's going to be coming off of here, looking a little bit towards us and stuff. If you remember, we did circumference lines when we were practicing circles and stuff, right? Yeah. Well, this oval, just like an AIG or whatever, might have a center line, and that's what this line is here. This is that center line. Okay? So the muscle is going to come off of here. And then the top of the head can come above behind that. And this is getting really messy here. Is going to be the shoulder blades. And then behind that is going to be the hips. Geez, there's tons of stuff going off. Off the back of this hip is going to be one leg. And then we're going to draw through and draw the other leg right? And off the front one is going to be one leg. You can make sure they're kind of lined up, right? That's a good way to measure it out. And off the front here is going to be another link. Okay, so that's the rough look at our Rhino, right? Jeez, that's complicated looking. What I really hope is that you sketched it really light. I'm using orange color. Joey's kind of sketching in blue, right? You don't have to sketch in a different color if you don't want to. But I think it helps, okay, because it kinda helps you separate between your sketch and then the actual kinda lines, finishing lines that you want to show, right? But hey, if you aren't using a colored pencil for sketching, that's okay. Just do it very lightly. You know, if you're sketching, just sketch really light when you're doing things and stuff, okay? So that when you get into it you want to erase. It's much easier. Okay, so let's take a look. What do we want to start with? Why don't we start with the horn? The horn? Yeah, I like that. This horn is going to come here. It's going to start on the top of the nose type of thing. It's going to come up this way. Okay. Then below it is kind of almost like the housing of the horn a little bit. And then the mouth is going to come down here. The front of our oval, we're going to have like a fat pouty lip come out and then in an unhappy mult come down, right? The lip below is going to come under two. And then we can bring this all the way around and kind of bring it in here. It's just going to follow that oval on the bottom side there. Okay. The nose part, we can go back up to where the horn is and bring this down a little bit. And then just put a little nostril here. And maybe on this site to the two little nostrils right? Now this guy's got a second horn, actually, it's right about here. He's got this second horn action going on inside there. And we can put that little notch there on it too. Right? Okay. Now he's got two eyes right above this horn, right around this horn. So you can draw the eyebrow on one if you want. Draw the eyebrow on another one and bring them up to the top here. He's got cut almost as cowboy hat looking thing at the top right is going to come back down along this other side, pinch in and then come around for the head. And then how you wanna do the eyes is your choice. You can have them real small, something like that. If you want dark, mix and look evil, you can do it how the original one is looking more so, right? And you can even put little pupils in there as I got I'm looking down there and the little he looks tired. Right. Okay. The other thing that's going off to the head or these ears, they're kinda cute. Just little floppy things. Bring them up. Something like that. There we go. Okay, we're good so far. Do we want to keep going up here or do we want to come down in two seconds? Is empty. And that's okay. Yeah. Right. If I'm going too fast for you guys because I just did a whole bunch going on on the face there. Don't worry. Just rewind it or pause it. Right. Depends where you're at. Yeah. For head right now. Now I realized something looking at my sketch, I've kind of made his head moved a little bit too much this way. Right? His head where I've got it. He should have been out here a little bit more, but you know what, I'm still going to make it work. That's okay. But maybe Joe is doing a better job than me? I don't think so. Yeah, because I can see how I've got his shoulder way too for his shoulders should have been somewhere back starting at the back of his head, somewhere here. Right. So I've got the shoulder blades going way too far forward. It'll still work though. Gay joint. You're ready. Roll up, destroying the years right now. We can go on. Okay? So I'm going to bring this up in this oval and kinda come up with this hump and back down into the body and kinda follow that oval down here a little bit, right? And then as I'm coming down here, I'm going to come down into the foot and kinda give him the little type of hoofed that he has. He's got a lot of details going on here that you could follow the little wrinkles that are going on around the foot and leg. You're going to go in and put the toenails and and stuff, right? Okay. Then from the top here, it kinda swoops in to the back a little bit and it comes up for that back hip. There's a second one that comes up here. And it comes up and then back around and comes down into this other foot. And the same kind of thing we can have it with the little toes, right? The little toenails and stuff. You can have a little wrinkly thing around the knee. But then what you're gonna do is follow your original big oval and bring that belly underneath. Okay. Now this is making a lot of sense, right? Even though my guy, he's a little squished, little turned and stuff. I guess he's a little bit different than the original reference. It's almost like he's turned a little bit more this way for my guy right? Now you can go through and look at your draw through and kind of add the hind feet, right? Mine look a little bit short of where they originally should have been, but it still works. And I'm going to put the tail a little bit different. There we go. Okay. Yeah, not bad. My guys. A little bit squished this way. Right? It's almost like I said, like he he's turned just slightly and stuff right? Slightly compared to here. But I gotta say if I was to do it again, I think I'd stretch them out a little bit. I think I kinda measured my oval ROM. My first oval was a little bit too short and then the muzzle was too short and all that. But I kinda still like how he looks. He ended up quite good. He's still looks like a rhinoceros. He's got the pieces that I want in and stuff, right? It's just not exactly matching how the original one looked. Joy, what do you think? How is yours go and so far, it's okay. I'll just say that. Just okay. What do you like about it? Nothing really. Seems like it's okay. He hasn't got that much additive. Know he's got like, I'm done with this attitude, which is that how you're feeling right now or something? Yeah. Just kind of annoyed. If you look at his face, he's just like, Oh yeah, you totally Oh, what are you missing? I think you're still missing stuff. I just saw that. Not just that though. I think you're missing nostrils. Forgot his new yeah. That's okay. You know what I would also maybe put is like for me, I might put some flies buzzing around. Just adult with some, for some reason, millenia, Yeah, right? For some reason these these big African BCE often have these flies buzzing around them and stuff I got right. But that's for a simplified little piece like this. I don't think I'd add a whole lot to it or anything. Right. What do you think you done? You've got to add the halo. Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, Joey's adding the halo. I want to say you can even see that sometimes copying it, it doesn't work out exactly right. But the main thing is, after you've copied it, look at them side-by-side, you know, take a look at what you've done. Take a look at what you were trying to do and figure out what happens in between, right? You know, you can say Okay, well, I thought I was doing it right, but where did I measure a wrong? Where did I guess wrong? What did I change? And more importantly, what do I think of the changes? Did I really, hello it? Did I really ruin this picture? Is it really so bad? Or, you know what? I kind of like that if I turn it over, if I do this or stretch that, it works out not that bad. You know? So some of these little mistakes are actually, there's a famous saying that they're happy little mistakes, right? Accident, happy little accidents. That's the one that's a little quote from an old painter named Bob Ross. Happy little accidents, right? So don't worry about these happy little accidents sometimes guys, it might not be perfect. But if you're learning from it, it really is. Gay guys keep at it and keep having fun with it. 7. Drawing the Ostrich pt1: Hey guys, We're back. I'm Ed and I'm Joey. And we're ready to teach you another animal. This one's a little awkward. It's an awkward animal to begin with. And so the drawing might be a little awkward to, what are we drawing here, join an ostrich. And that's right. A large, flightless bird, like a peak. Like a penguin but not right? Yes, that's right. Okay. So what do we do when we first approach an animal? Sketch out the shapes? No. You run away because these animals are going to eat you? Yeah. Okay. What do we do when we That was my dad joke. What do we do when we first approach drawing an animal? Shapes? Find the shape to define the basic shapes, right? Take a look around, see if you can figure out what are some of the basic things that make this animal look the way it does, okay? Sometimes it's nice to start with the body, right? So you can see we've got this nice little oval going on. Okay. And she looks kinda like an AIG, right? Yeah, I guess inside of it we've got another egg. That'll kinda nice represent the wing gate. And what I'm hoping you're doing is you're kinda sketching along on the worksheet that we provided that you can just meter, grab a colored pencil or whatever it is and just lightly trying to find some of these shapes that we're talking about. Okay, next shape that I'm looking at is I'm gonna go up here and look at the head. And we're going to do another type of oval. Okay? And you can see in the head we've got lots of shapes here. We can do the eyes if we wanted, we could do another oval. I like to just kinda hit the big ones, you know, the body, the wings, the head. But if you want to kinda find them all, that's okay. You know, coming down from the body, we've got kind of rectangles for the legs. And then we've got these kind of being type of feet, right? There's going to be more details to it. Being hot dog. It's kind of it's a bean dog. I know that that jokes are getting pretty bad at misread. Okay. So hopefully, you know, the neck we're just going to you can do the neck this way. You could do that. I don't make it to twisty or anything like that, but we're just gonna do a rough line connecting it for now. Okay. So why don't we bring it across? And if you want to tell you what? If you've got a ruler or something and you want to try to measure some of this. You could do something like this. You could bring, draw a line for the bottom of the feet, draw a line for the bottom of the body. The top of the body, the bottom of the head, the top of the head. You could do something like that. If you have a ruler, if you want to measure it out and stuff, I guess that's one way of approaching this so that you get some of the proportions, right? You can see in some of the previous ones. Sometimes we might mess up just a little bit. Well, this is one way to be open, be more accurate. Okay. Okay. So if we've got it measured all off to the side, Let's start. We're going to do the oval in the middle. I like starting with the body. A nice big egg, right? We're gonna do the oval. You'll notice it's kinda straight up from the edge of the body here, right? We're gonna do an oval here. Okay? We'll draw a little line that comes down. Good enough. We can even do that little piece that's on top there if we want or something, right? We can draw a line straight down and a line straight down. If we want, we can do the rectangles there or something, right? Then we're going to draw these goofy beams. One behind here. Something like that, right? And then the oval that's inside here. And we're done. And we don't have the details. Right? Okay. Where do we want to start? Let me let's start at the top and work our way down a little bit. Okay? We'll kinda zoom in here a little bit and see what we can get into. Why don't we draw an eye? And another eye. He looks happy. In-between these eyes is the beak, right? We've got this little bump. And then it comes around and around this side. So right now it actually looks a little bit like a, a clown melt or something, right? But the beak part comes with the smile that's inside. We've got this little sharpness that's going on. That kinda gives up beak feeling. All right, Okay. Now on top of the head you can follow that original little bump. And then you can follow it around the oval on this side and follow it around the over on this side. Now if you want to, you can connect it. But you can see on the original one, there's a gap in there. So I would come in and maybe you ace it up or something, something like that right? From here, we're going to follow it down and kind of follow that rough line that we had. On either side of it. It may not be perfect, that's okay. And then you can see that, you know, it's kinda just feathers down at the bottom here, right? Sorry, you do enjoy. Helix, nervous like you drink too much coffee. Okay. Maybe I should do that with mind-like bigger eyes. I don't know. This is where you can kind of goof around with it. Nice. Ok, so now we're going to work on the body. And you can see the top part here is just going to fall low, that original oval that we had laid out, right? But as it starts to get to the bottom half is going to kinda hang a little bit, like it's like hanging feathers down here and stuff, right? And kinda do these little wave type looks to them and stuff. And it's going to come back up. Okay. It doesn't have to be perfect. You don't have to follow each wave perfectly or anything like that. Just have it looking generally like that. Well, you're already onto the wing. The wing is the same thing. You would follow it around. Maybe inside you can do these kind of waves. We come back up and follow, you know, you're following. The reason why you have these ovals. Is there kind of a guide for you, right? And you can do the second one. Just kinda following the waves and stuff and following that. All right. Okay, now we're going to head on down. We're going to go down to the feet. What do we do? The one that's closest to us, we're going to come down, draw straight line down, and draw another straight line down for the other leg. And then it's going to come back onto the back of the foot here. It's going to come forward and followers, weird little hotdog been hopping, jogging. What was it again, I can't remember, but what's different is we're going to have one toe coming in and then on the other, another toe and it's going to fall over. And you can put these little texture things on top of the toes or something like that. Okay. The other leg is going to be the same way. Follow it straight down. Follow it straight down. You can draw it going back that way. But then this one is going to come forward and you're going to have one toe. And then the other tool is going to start off with there and come back up and you can put those little texture things. If you've seen the birds feet in all the hard, nasty. I think it's nasty that the heart feet of it. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So you can tell that because we use these guides, the sizing from one side to the other and stuff is a lot more accurate. Write it. That's a way to keep it consistent in your sizing and everything. Yeah, so this is one way to use a ruler, especially if you're drawing on the same piece of paper, you can measure things out a little bit more and stuff like that, right? You know, when it comes to drawing skills, often we kinda start with tracing. Then we go on to copying, and then we go on to creating, right? So right now we're kind of in the copying stage. But what we're doing is starting to learn how to construct the figure so that we can keep on growing on to the next stage which is creating, construction and creating Okay. Yeah. Okay. Joy, How is yours just doing that? I should be phished. Yeah. It looks pretty good. Yeah. He doesn't look like he had a little bit too much caffeine though. What was out, what that is, okay. I can kinda see it. He's like streaming and write, write, write, write. My guy. It looks pretty simple. You know, coffee at him. He looks like he's seeing like nothing. He looks like he's looking straight at us, right. Okay. So I hope would you guys at home, I hope you're having fun sketching this ostrich. If it was tough, Don't worry. Watch it again. Do it again. If you have to do it on another piece of paper or something. Okay. And what I'd really love it is if you could send us some of these pictures, I would love it. Put your name down below it, send it in to me. I'll give you some feedback and tell you how it looks and stuff I got. Maybe there's some parts that I can help you with. But really, I just want to see how cool your art is. So send it to us guys and keep practicing. 8. Drawing the Ostrich pt2: Okay guys, this is a little quick add-on onto our ostrich unit. I was thinking about something that I thought might be helpful for you guys. Okay. So here was the original ostrich that we had. This was the one we drew up. Yours. Hopefully looks a little similar, right? I don't expect it to be perfect, but, you know, similar. One thing I wanted to talk to you about was, remember when we've practiced drawing circles, right? We are drawing a whole bunch of circles and stuff. And in the basics course, we learned about how we'd have a cut line OR, and then it would form into a circumference line and it could turn around and stuff. I got well, that's basically what we've got going on here. We've got an oval for the ostriches body, right? But if you notice, like the center of it would be something around here, right? This would be the center, the center line, because this heads kind of in the center, right? And if we start to look around, we can see the center of the head would be right here. So what I would like to do is maybe do something like this. I would like to kind of bring our measurements over that we were using, right? You can use a little ruler to bring this over. It doesn't have to be exactly perfect. But I want to see if we could turn our ostrich slightly. This is not going to be a perfect drawing or anything like that. We already drew the ostrich, right? But I want to I want to rotate the ostrich a little bit more around. All right? Okay. So in other words, what I want to have is the front of the ostrich right here, as if this is the center line. So this whole thing has turned right. The neck is going to be starting somewhere here and we can still have the head looking straight on, right? Maybe it will do the central line here. We'll still have the heads straight on. We'll see how that little bulge up top right, the neck. And we can draw it coming straight down if we like. And what we could do with the legs is just kinda flop them evenly. Something like that, right? And have the lines coming straight down from there, right. So this is just a rough sketch. And like I said, it's imagining if we turn this ostrich just around a little bit, right? We're just rotating it. Okay. So what else would we have? We'd have these wings on the side, right? These wings would come over and, and so the wings would be on each side of it, right in the middle here. We've still got this. The bill, the mouth of the Austrian shrimp. What do you think? Looking not bad, right? Like it, it makes sense as if we're looking at it straight on, right? So that's, if you remember in our basis basics course, we used a basketball to show how the basketball will rotate back and forth, right? And that's what we're doing here. We're just taking this ostrich and rotating it a little bit, right? So why don't we start to add in some details, will come in here and do one, I do another, I do this little bump for the mouth, right? Come around to the mouth this way. Seems to be going okay. We can still, everything's kinda the same because this ostrich is kinda still looking at us, right? We can have that bump up top right. We can go round in the cheeks following our little half circle here. Or little squished thing, right? If we want to, we can bend it but because it's looking at it from the straight or from straight on, we can just kinda goes something like this, right? Okay, So this is coming straight down, I guess I could add. I kinda wanna make the eyes a little wonky. Here we go for fun, right? I have the feathers down below here just a little bit right? Now. These, the side wings we can bring down. And we can kinda show from the side here, we can kinda fluff it out that side. Alright, just roughing how the feathers might look going across here. We can bring the feathers across like this and across. So that's our wings. The wings going to come up here and then come up to the body. Come up to the body. And this is just a rough sketch so we can do the whole, you know, the wavy look of the feathers coming underneath here kind of thing, right? Does that make sense? Why don't we draw the feet first. We'll come down here and we'll draw one big toe and then another big toe and then bring it up to where that lake would come around the heel. And it all we're doing is drawing it straight up and down, right? Something like that. Okay. We can come on this other side here, do the same thing. One big toe. Another big toe. Come up to where the light comes in. Goes straight up and down and straight up and down. Okay. Listen, i'm I don't want to go in and render this too much like i'm I'm not worried about drawing that halo that we sometimes do and stuff for it. What I really want is for you to just understand that we're just taking this same ostrich, the same circles, and if it's bent, if it's turned like this, we're rotating it just a little bit more. So it's turning like this. Rotating a little bit more. So it's turning like this. And now we've got our ostrich that's straight on looking at us. Well, not as eyeballs, but, you know, he's kinda looking at us, right. Okay guys, hope that helps a little bit and just a little add on to our ostrich unit here. And you know, the whole point is to keep practicing, keep playing around with it. Have fun. 9. Drawing the Penguin: Hey guys, We're back and we're still doing animals. This is our animal number. I want to say fabric. You're right. Yeah, that's why you're good at math. You can count. And number 7 is a penguin, right? So this one's going to be really simple. But instead of that cartoony vibe we were doing earlier, we're gonna do a little bit more realistic. Okay. Sound good? Yeah. Okay. So I want you to grab your paper pencil. Hopefully you've got the something printed out so you can follow along, right? That's the hope. Mean, Joey, we're working on our screens here, but often we're just working with pencil and paper, right? So that's what we're doing with the pink one. We're going to look for, as always, these basic shapes, right? So where's our first basic shape? Well, it's pretty obvious. We've got this huge oval. We can use this massive oval going on. Okay, so you can see it's kind of AIG like or something, right? From that, you know, there's a lot of underlying structure here. There's the birds ribcage, the shoulders, hips, legs coming down and stuff. But really with penguins can't really see it. Not only do they have feathers and that throws things off, right? But there's a hole insulation going on with these guys because we didn't live in the Arctic. Know how? North Pole? No. Yes, the Antarctic. Oh my goodness. You're good at math. I'm better in geography. So we don't have to worry about a lot of the structures underneath. With most animals, I'd say listen, look at the structures. But with penguins, we can just use this kinda bean or egg type shape or something like that. And then off of that, we're going to have this head, this head coming off the top, okay. Depending on the which type of penguin is, it'll be the relationship of the size. All right, So I believe these are more of an emperor penguins. So the head's going to be a little smaller compared to the enormous body, body coming down into little feet and stuff. Okay, So we're going to try to draw this off to the side. But what I want to do is some mirroring practice. Do you guys remember what that is? Yes. You do. What does it mean? It means like flipping? Yeah. Right. As if we're looking in a mirror and things are flipped in reverse, right? So instead of drawing or, or AIG this way, we're going to draw it kinda looking this way, right? Yeah. And our head's going to be coming tied up over this way. Cool. And then of course, we'll have one foot coming down here and one foot coming down here, right? And then the wings would be coming down and maybe the beak would be coming out. This way. Something along those lines, right? So try to flip it so that it's going the opposite of what you would normally do right? Now we can start to get into it and usually I like to do to headfirst as usual, right? Like I'm gonna come in here just kinda roughly sketching this in. Here is going to be the beak. We're going to have the underside of the beak come under here, right? The head's going to come above. This nice, It's nice when we've already roughed in these shapes and stuff I get then we can kinda follow them a little bit. It's going to come over here. There's a bit of a bump and, you know, kinda work its way down the body. And this is still a very rough sketch. You're going to see that the wing, you can kinda have it come in partway here and then come back up on the body. And the body can continue down underneath that and even into a little bit of a belly here. And we can do the same thing with the front. Have it come under the head into the body. And see how easy this is, right? Especially when we already have these nice flowing lines to it, right? It's really easy to just follow along the body. We can bring up here. We can put the ion already if we want. It looks angry already. Let's go with that. And then some, some facial patterns here and stuff. And this changes the type of penguin that you're drawing, right? Some, some will have a little bit of plumage up top or something like that. The age of the painting will change things a little bit. The other thing is like, like I said, they're carrying a lot of insulation. So instead their legs actually being these little sticks. We've all got these little sticks of skeletons. They come down pretty meaty. So it's going to come like this and it's going to come around like this. So this first one will come out to his little toes, talon, I think, of birds fetus talents, right? And then there's a lot of this hanging feathers down below and you can copy it for the foot there. Like I said, there's so much insulation on these guys that yeah. It distorts what we're actually what we think we're seeing, right? So that's why, you know, getting those foreign dynasty is nice, right? Okay. Next one, you can do a little talent slash toes. Come up here. You can block it off a little bit, right? There we go. So if you want to do a little bit of depending on how much this is turned around. Sometimes you could maybe see some of the other side of the wing on this side, right? You know, if we're looking at a penguin straight on, straight from this belly, you'd be able to see both wings on either side, right? But this guy's turned around so much that we're really only going to see this one wing on this side, right? Yeah. Okay. So the lesson with penguins are they're basically just big and they lay eggs and they protect their eggs. Yeah, they're good with that. I'm not saying they don't stand on their eggs. The eggs imitate that, right? Yeah. Good job. Okay, Guys. Easy, right? I think so too. How does yours look Joy. Adorable? Yes, it does. I think yours looks more durable. It looks like that. What's up, What's Hot? Why mine looks so mean. Why kind of do it a lot in the head and stuff like that. And he's either like, yeah, maybe if I made it little round. Oh, there you go. See, I just made mine just that little bit rounder. And it kind of helped with that, right? So that's what you can do if you're like, you know, what's making mine look a certain way that I don't really intend while goof around with a little bit and see what you can find, right? Okay, that's it for the penguin. Nice and simple. You guys go, Lisa makes 10. Drawing the Rabbit: Okay guys, we're back. And I don't know when you are watching this recording, this coming up on Easter. So I've already been buying and eating my chart, the bunnies. So it's a little fitting for me to be sitting here and what are we about to draw me? That's right. A little bunny, rabbit, right? And what do we do when we first approach an animal? Shapes? Well, it depends if it's in the wild, then we went away. But on this, we're going to find some shapes, right? And this sketch already has a bit of it, Right? But what we can do is find the main torso shape. And I'm going to disagree with what's already here though. Okay? So what I'm gonna do is find 21 is going to be the ribcage. And one back here is going to be the hip. Remember when we were drawing other animals, you can see very distinctly the ribs and the hips, and sometimes the back would go like this or sudden, the lake would come back and stuff with the other animals. That was kinda clear with bunnies because of the short distance between the rib area and the hips and the amount of mass that carries in the hips. It's not always clear until you see a bunny running. You know, if you see a bunny fully extended with the hind legs going back here, right? And the front legs here. And then, oop, oop. Then now this looks like a bunny, right? You like, it takes a little bit to see this, to see it in motion. But when it's just sitting here, it looks like this one giant big blob, but it's not. Okay. So we're going to have is one section for the ribcage and then this other section for the hips. And what happens with the hips while we get to back legs coming off of them, right. One comes here to the knee, down to what would be a heel, and then down into what is kind of a big foot, right? So let's see if we could draw that again. It would be down towards knee, back towards the heel, and then into a big paddle foot. The other one same. We've got shoulders, right? If we're doing the circumference here, it comes down to an elbow, down to what could be a wrist, and then out to a foot, down to an elbow. What could be a wrist and then out to a foot. All right. So let's see if we could draw this off to the side here a little bit just now because there's, when we're approaching these more realistic looking animals, there's so much going on. We have to be, you know, it can get really confusing, right? So let's check it out. Here's going to be the ribcage area. Here's going to be the hip area, okay. And we're going to have it in the same general form as this. So that means our middle line, our circumference lines is going to be down the middle here and a little bit down the middle here. That means one shoulder would be here and the other one would be tucked behind here, but we'll still draw through. Okay. You follow me okay. So far? Yeah. Okay. Same with the hip where the top of the leg inserts into the hip is going to be visible on this side, but maybe not this side, right? Okay, so we're practicing a lot of things we've already studied here, drawing through using circumferences of circles, that kind of stuff. Okay, so what we're gonna do is come forward with the top of the leg, come back with the bottom of it, and then come forward with a foot. We can draw through and do the same thing with what's behind it, right? Okay, Now this bunny doesn't show it. We can't see another lake behind, but we know it's there. And then if we want, there's little fluff ball. But on the bottom, right. Okay. Same thing with this one because one in the front, it's going to come down to the table. I guess I could draw a little bit stronger, come down to the elbow, down to the wrist, and then out. So cute little Paul, right? This one will come down. We're not seeing it though. Come out where we can't see it. And then out to a cute little Paul, right? The head. You know what, maybe I'll move this out of the way because it's starting to get in my way. There we go off to the side here, something I like to keep it there for you guys to see later though. Okay. The head is going to be fairly large and it's going to have that same circumference line down the middle, right? We've got this head here and a line down the middle. And then these big ears coming off the top, right. Well, this thing's looking cute already. With the ears. You want to have stability in this section. This section is what? Hold it. These inside pieces here really hold it. And then the rest of the year kinda is a little bit more floppy, little bit more malleable, right? Okay. Imagine this is the hard rigid the air that year here and stuff here. Okay, so now we've got this cute little functional skeleton mapped out, right? And we can go in and start outlining or drawing in some, some more of the parts. You know, what I'd like to do is start with a nose here. So we're going to have this little bunny nose as following this center line, right? And he's going to come off it like that. Okay. And you can have a little bit of the ridge coming up from it. Okay. Next one is this little bunny chin. I think makes the, overusing the word money. But what we've got is these, these cheek see it come out and then come in type of thing. Can come in. So he's got these cute little cheap looking things right? Then this hang of the fur on either side a little bit. Now what's different with bunnies is, right now we're working as a ball a little bit, but actually bunnies have eyes on the side of their head. So instead of just drawing an eye here and I'm drawing and I hear it's like a zombie ask. What we have to do is kinda draw the ridge, right? The ridge, and then the eye is on the side of it. Alright, let's see if I can clean that up just a little bit. The ridge of where that would sit. And then the I we're only seeing part of the eye. Because like I said, the eye sits on on kind of the side of the head, right. And I'm noticing that my lines a little bit off here, so I'm going to come in here, kind of erase it. Because I want these two to match up between them, right? So I'll draw the eye here and draw the eye here, right? Okay, so now I can kinda come in, carry this up. Actually, I think I'll carry it up off of this. And then let the ear hang down little fluff balls in there, right? This part is fluffy and here is going to come up the ridge. The hard line will come back down, little fluff in there. Right. And then it comes around and comes into the back room. Now, like I said, because bunnies have a lot of especially when they're crunched up in the small hunched up position, they're going to have a lot of mass, right? So this hip and what you're going to get a big bunny button, right? There's plenty bots going to come over to our element like that. And this one's going to fluff over and come around like this and actually come down even further because this arm is behind joint keeping up so far. Yeah. Okay. Good. Okay. With this late, we're not going to draw like the bunnies don't have little stick legs, right? They've got big meaty lakes, right? Especially up top here. So it's going to come something like this and it'll come down, but there's tons of for, right? So it kinda hides so much of the detail. We're going to follow this into the big, the big foot. And we're going to just do it simply the way that they have it outlined. With the big pause there. We're going to come with this one and kind of started around the elbow. We get down here, the front leg, bring it down to the Paul and then we're going to bring it down to the pole on this side and do the same thing. Just give him little tiny little toes. And then we're going to do a belly underneath. And let's give it a little cotton tail in the back. Okay, so right now we've got everything that's kinda in the forefront, right? But we still got these two back feet that I'd really like to draw it, even though this one's missing from behind here. So we can just kind of follow the same flow and just kinda go underneath and you'll see it's hidden there. Uh, we know it's there because we drew through, right. We could see with our mindful, I, I don't know, I'm trying to think of a unique expression for that, but what we know should be there, right? And then this one is going to come down into a little bunny, Paul. And there we go. Okay, so that's our little bunny. And of course, you can make them fluffier if you want, depending on what type of beanie, some of those arctic hares and stuff the Arctic bunnies have this massive puffy for and stuff, right? It, or it's little backyard bunny that you might see in a suburban neighborhood, right? Depending on what style you want. What do you think, Joy, how's your bunny coming? Kid? Toot? Your bunny has a bit of a bigger, longer head, right? Do you notice that? No, I wouldn't. I think just learn from it and say, okay, you did more of a oval for the head, whereas an I did more of a circle for the head. And so my bunny's head is little squished down and stuff. And I kinda like that. That's more of what I was aiming for. I don't think yours is wrong. And I don't think there's an absolute right or wrong. You're still looks like a bunny, right? So it works. The longer you stretch out your bunny, the more it starts to look like a wild hair. Yeah, instead of, uh, instead of a little bunny. Right. And so that's not wrong either, right? You just have to recognize kinda what your intent is and if, and if your drawing is matching what you want it to do. Okay, good stuff. Guys. Go draw some bunnies. 11. Drawing the Bear: Hey guys, we're back and this time we're working on and I'm on number 9 and it is only being how do you know it's a polar bear? It could be anywhere. Any better. There you go. Is we bear bears. It can be polar or iceberg, but it doesn't look like a band gap. Okay, listen, Joey had sketched out this initial barrier for us and stuff, right? Looking at a reference and everything. But I'm going to disagree with her. It's okay. I think some of the forms that you used I don't think are really What's the forms are. This is what happens when we look at realistic animals. And when we're trying to draw realistic animals, we don't always see what's really going on unless there minus their fur and feathers, right? So when we're drawing those cartoon animals is kinda fun to play. Because they're playful, right? You know, the structure is not, doesn't have to be pinned to realism. Yeah. Oh, now that we've moved on to some of these more realistic looking animals, we've got to start to take a harder look at the structure of them. Okay? So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to say listen, when it comes to this polar bear. And most mammals, they have a particular structure to them. What's going on is they've got this rib-cage, okay? In this case, this ribcage has a circumference line somewhere around here. It's going down the middle and we're looking at the other side of it there. Okay. They also have hit. And again, he's a little turn, so the circumference line is going to be something like that. Okay. You're going to have a shoulder joint and a shoulder joint that we're looking through on the hip insertion and the hip insertion back here. Okay. Okay. So if I was to draw this off to the side, it would be something like this with the shoulder joint, the shoulder joint drawn through and maybe a hip width, the hip joint and that one drawn through as well. Then we've got the head coming off the front here, right? The head coming off the front here. Okay. It's good to start with a circle, but as soon as we start to turn a bear's head, we can see there's a snout that starts to happen, right? This particular bear is staring straight at us because he's hungry. But we know that when a bear's head is turned to the side, they've got this snout, right? Yeah. Okay. Let's see. Let's go with the legs. So many times we have this kind of what we call the dog legs. Right? Comes down to a knee, comes down to what would be an ankle, but then comes down into kind of a heel bend and then more of a foot. So we can do that. Bring it down to the knee, bring it down to this ankle, but then it comes down more and into the foot. The front ones come down to the elbow, come down to what would be a wrist, but then extend down into a bit of a Paul. Okay. So it comes down to an elbow? Comes down to well, it could be a wrist and it comes down into a bit of a pole with a human's hand. We've got the humans hand, right? That we can have the fingers, the palm, the thumb, all that kind of stuff, right? With animals often they are just walking on this section or this section here. Okay. So this palm area or the heel area gets lifted off the ground in a lot of their steps. So when you see them stepping, there's, you know, there's these patterns and stuff. But there's not like how humans have this heel on their press when they step right. Okay, so I think this is a better looking structure. Now this is where it's going to get tough because we're going to bring it off to the side. And we're going to see if we can draw this structure. So I want you to draw that kinda big ribcage, a big hip. Try to find that maybe Center circumference line. Find it here too. We're going to draw the head somewhere on this point. We're going to find, let's say up top on these points where the insertion of the limbs would go right. We can bring it down here for the knee, back down for what would be the angle then down into the the Paul, write down for the knee, back for the ankle. And then the Paul. Keep in mind that this Paul is going to be closer to us. So the base of the Paul that's behind will be further away, right? This one we can bring back and down into the ankle and then into the poll. And we want to keep these two kind of on a bit of a similar plane so we can measure it that away. And then the back legs will keep them on a similar plane back here too. So this one can come forward. And then reaching down and then that Paul is going to be on that it kind of looks like a human problem. You know what? That's kind of the point that I'm getting it actually that's good. Because eventually we're looking at these, especially the mammals, as having so much of a similar structure to each other. Some of the proportions will be different. We can look at gorilla arms compared to human arms and stuff like that, right? But so many of these AML mammals have such a base, similar structure. We're just pushing and pulling on it in different ways and stuff, right? Okay. So I think we're pretty good so far. We can even put it little central line down here, central line in the face. And yes, it does look a lot as if it was a person crouched over something where some of the big differences are, what don't we start with the head though, okay? We're going to go with the top of the head here. But bears have these years, all these years I've taught humans don't have these types of years unless their grade five girls with little headband. All right. I've never seen that. We can have a nose down here and we can even colored in if we want to have eyes on this line. My eye looks me. Writing all of your animals with me. Know, remixed, dorky. We can have the snout. So we're looking at the bottom part here, right? We have this note coming up and then it comes out for the face. You can even put a little bit of a chin underneath if you want or something, depending on the angle that we're looking down at right? Now, one of the big features of a bear is mass. So what we're gonna do, We can see how this is coming up here, but we're even going to, we're going to make it huge coming up off to the side here, right? This is the shoulder as if the shoulders pushing up on the flesh and then it comes up here and pushes up on the behind, right. There's a little tail behind. Okay. So already now we can see yeah, that's starting to look like a bear. It's got a lot of mass to it right underneath the neck here. It's going to come over and we're going to have this arm coming down or this leg rather. Usually we don't draw details of the legs because it loses itself into the shoulder, into the fur. So you can actually get rid of some of this. It's, it's so, so obscured by, by at all. Right. That's can be hairy coming on down here and then into the Paul. Alright. And before we continue, why don't we do the knee of this guy, bring it on down into the Paul. It's gonna talk under everyone on the lookout thick. This part across here is even though the, you know, the bone would if we were just looking at it, we'd be like, Yeah, we could just draw skinny leg there. The for really add so much mass to these guys, right? Okay, so then we can start to draw them all in here. And I think if we want to have a little tail on the back there, the other thing I wanna do is between these two lakes, we're going to have a belly here. Alright. So we can follow the sweep of his hip and bring in this belly underneath. Okay. So it's kinda following the ribcage here and following back there. Okay, so those are the things in the foreground for us, right? This, this front leg, hind leg, this front foreleg, right? But now we want to draw the back stuff, right. And so we've already got it roughed in. We could come up from the bottom if we want and draw the pause and then just bring it up that way. Or we can come from the top, bring it down. And remember to give so much hanging for all of this bear for right and mass that they have something along those lines right? There. There is our bear. How do you draw a bear tail? Here? I want to make my guy a little bit nicer. Oh, if I made them nicely with it. Usually bear tails are just these kinda little fluffy puffs, actually, not like a rabbit that kinda comes up this way, but more like just this little knobby, fluffy little puff that comes off the butt off the table. Yeah, it's really cute. So you can if you want to, you can kind of fall, follow the flow of the back. And then as it comes down, it just comes into that little fluffy nub. Cool. Okay, So what do you think that your bear looks kind of scary? Well, let's go like, oh, scared or scary? Scary. Like he's on edge or something. Well, it looks like you just took a picture of him or something like that. He's like who's that? With a flash. All right. I gotta say my bear, it looks how I wanted them to. You know, like I've kinda got these sketchy lines going on because I want to denote the fur and stuff like that. Really show that out. All right. Yeah, yeah, I'm kinda happy with how mine looks. I think my realistic animals always have this kinda mean look to them. I don't know what's Dorothy? I think that's a reflection of us as personalities and Garth dean endorsement. I gotta say usually I'm the dorky one. The mean. We're drawing each other here. Okay, listen guys, That's enough of our little banter here. I hope you guys are having fun drawing these animals. And I hope you had fun drawing this bear, right? If you want to make sure you take a picture and you can send it off to me. Okay. You can ask your parents how descended to the person who's course, who made this course, right? Which is mean Joey. Sometimes if depending on where you got the course, if you're working on a tablet or some, it might be on a website or something. So I don't know if you guys have access to e-mail, but yeah, I'd love to see your animals, right, Joy. Yeah. Yeah. We want to see what you're drawing and we'll even maybe do some schedulers and stuff, right? A lot of people semi a lot of sketches. And I take the time to make sure that I, if I see any kind of wantonness, I'll show them where it's at. Right? Okay, guys, keep sketching and have fun with your we bear bear.