(upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Joe Wos.

This is "Cartoon Academy".

(playful music) Today we're gonna draw an entire scene by setting up some composition.

Composition is where everything is placed in a drawing.

We're gonna have a background, a foreground, and middle ground.

Today we're gonna draw a cow on a farm.

Let's begin.

We're gonna start with the eyes.

We have a circle.

Then let's add a letter C backwards, Next, little dots in the eyes.

One and two.

Then we're gonna add heavy eyelids.

Draw a line that comes across and then just curves up to add an eyelash.

Same line across and up, an eyelash.

Now for the nose and snout.

Right from the base of this eye we come down and then around, up, around and down, up, around and down, up, all the way over and connect.

Just like that.

Now for the mouth.

We come in, up slightly.

Add a little cheek.

Down and in.

Let's follow that line, down, up.

Just a little line for the jaw.

Now we're gonna come up to the top of the head.

We're just gonna scribble in some hair.

Nice and messy.

Now for the ear.

Come up to a point and then back down.

The inside or interior of the ear looks like this.

Up and down.

We see another ear sorta sticking out here in the background.

From that ear we have a line down that forms the neck.

Then all the way over and off our page to form the body.

We're not worried about it going off the page, that's what we want, because that's part of our composition.

Composition, again, is where we lay out all the different pieces and components of the drawing.

So we're not worried about a cow going off the page because over here we're gonna add something else to create a balance.

So there's something on the left, something on the right.

We're gonna add a little collar here.

Line down, over and up.

And attached to that collar there's gonna be a bell.

We've got a line from the jaw down to the collar.

For the bell we have a rectangle, (bell dings), curved line down, over and up.

Curved line down, over and up.

Over, down at an angle, over and up at an angle, to create that bell.

There's a little line right there.

The inside of the mouth, a line for the tongue, and then color in everything else.

For the rest of the body we come down.

And then we're gonna add a leg.

Starting from a quarter of the way up the body.

We come down and right off the page again.

Down and off the page.

The other leg, same thing, just down and off the page.

And then over, and off to the side.

Let's add a little spot on our cow, just like this.

So there's our cow.

We're gonna add a little bit of the setting now.

We're gonna add some foreground.

Foreground is everything that is in front.

Let's add a fence in the front here.

We come up, around and in, and down.

Up, around, and down.

One more, up, around, and down.

Over, down, over.

And then continue all the way through.

Back over, down again, and back.

One more, down, over, in.

And across.

Little line here and here.

Then maybe a little bit of texture to let us know that that's a wood post.

Just some quick little lines.

That gives us all the information we need to let us know that those are wooden posts and a wooden fence.

Then there's a couple nails, just like that.

All right.

Now we're gonna add some middle ground.

Middle ground's everything that's in the middle, just behind the cow.

There's a little hill, right here.

Atop that hill there's a barn.

We're gonna start with a square.

Doesn't have to be perfect.

Then the doorway, up, over and down.

And then trace, follow that line like this.

Up, over and down.

And then a sort of an X.

We have to draw with double lines, one line down, one line up.

And this one goes right behind it, like so.

Now for the roof.

Over, up, across, over, and in.

Let's add some shingles on that roof.

Just the letter U over and over.

There we go.

Then we're gonna sorta alternate it, like this.

Adds sort of a texture to the roof.

Just like that.

Now some wood timbers.

Right next to the barn there might be a haystack.

Not quite as tall as the barn, but it's pretty tall.

There's that quick texture in the line.

We want it to look like there's hay or straw.

Coming down from the barn there might be a path.

And that path leads down behind the cow.

So here's our foreground, and our middle ground.

In the background is everything that's behind all of this.

So we've got the sun in the sky.

And a few clouds rolling by.

That's it.

That's our farm scene featuring a cow.

Sign your name, take pride in your work.

We've had a lot of fun today, but now it's time to draw to a close.

See you next time.

(dynamic music) - [Announcer] funding for this program is provided by The Pennsylvania Department of Education for Learning at Home.