(dramatic music) (dinosaur roars) - We're traveling back in time to when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

This is "Cartoon Academy."

Stay tuned.

(footsteps thumping) (dinosaur roars) If at first you don't succeed, try, try, triceratops!

(triceratops roars) We're gonna learn how to draw a triceratops.

Let's begin.

(gentle music) We're gonna start with the eye.

We have an arch up, (bell dings) and then a line across.

And then just one, two quick little lines there.

The bottom half of the eye is a letter u.

(gentle music continues) Now for the pupil.

That's just a period.

(bell dings) The brow is just a little arch up like this.

Now we're gonna add the horns.

There are three.

There's one.

Line down.

(air whooshing) (spring boings) Two.

Line down.

(bell dings) And now for the third one.

Tri means three.

Triceratops.

Up to a point and back down.

Next we're gonna add the mouth.

We're gonna start with that front part of the lip.

It looks sort of like a beak.

(spring boings) Down to point and up.

And then we're gonna continue that line through and add a little dash on the end.

(bell dings) The nostrils?

An upside-down letter u.

And another with just a little bit of color in there.

(spring boings) (gentle music continues) Now for the back of the head.

With an out, down and in.

Out and in.

Out and in.

And one more out and in.

We can continue that in just a little bit more, and then add some depth.

A line here, here, here, and here.

I'm gonna double that up.

Another line right next to it.

Now we're gonna gonna add some shading.

Shading is exactly what it sounds like.

It's the shadows.

So we imagine where our light source is coming from.

Our light is coming from somewhere up here and the light would hit the front of the horns, but on the back of the horns we would have our shadow.

We're gonna use a line shading.

It's just some simple lines like so.

(graphic buzzes) (gentle upbeat music) On our other horn.

And lastly, right there.

Now for the lower part of the mouth.

Down to a point.

Back in, and down slightly.

Let's draw the back.

Starting from about, oh, halfway up, come out and up.

And we're gonna come down, around and to a point and stop.

Now we're gonna add the tail.

The tail is tapered.

That means it starts out very, very small and narrow at the tip, then it gets wider and wider as we get closer to the body.

So just follow that in, getting a little bit wider and wider.

Till we get right here.

Good.

(gentle upbeat music continues) Now for the legs.

We're gonna start with the front legs.

We add one, two lines with a little crease where the legs meet the body.

Down, out.

In.

Up and over.

Now for the hind legs or back legs.

Down.

Out.

In, and it's hidden by the tail, so we just come up like this.

Very good.

(gentle upbeat music swells) Now for the other legs.

(gentle playful music) Down, out and in.

And now that we have our triceratops, now we're gonna add the tricera-bottom.

It's just a line across like this.

Let's add another leg right in here.

(spring boings) (gentle upbeat music) Toenails.

Very simple to draw.

It's just the letter m. (bell dinging) Letter m, letter m. You know, I love dinosaurs.

When I was little, I really wanted to get a dinosaur for my brother, but no one would trade me.

(audience sighs) (slide whistle toots) We're gonna add some wrinkles in the knees.

One, two, three, four.

Next is the interior or inside of the mouth.

We're gonna add a tongue.

A line down, and then shade in right behind that.

(gentle upbeat music continues) The last thing to add to our triceratops are the markings.

Markings are the various shapes and colors and patterns that appear on fur or scales or even feathers.

My cat, I have a cat named Mittens, and Mittens is a tuxedo cat.

And the reason he's called a tuxedo cat is because it looks like he's wearing a tuxedo because of his markings.

He has a little white vest on the front and little white paws that look like gloves.

And he even has a little white marking right here on half of his mustache.

Well, those are called markings.

Our markings for our dinosaur are stripes that come to a point, then back up.

Point and back up.

Point, back up.

Point and back up.

We could add a little bit of texture.

Texture is how something feels when you touch it.

I imagine our dinosaur feels a little bit lumpy and bumpy, so we're just gonna add some little lines like this.

(lively upbeat music) Now for some ground surface.

Just a little bit of grass.

(spring boings) Just like so.

I think we need to give a little baby dinosaur.

Maybe this is a mama and we have a little baby popping its head outside of the egg like this.

We're gonna start with a letter u.

(bell dings) And then we're gonna add a zigzag across.

(lively upbeat music continues) Now for baby dinosaur.

We're gonna start with the horn.

Up, down, over.

Up, down.

And zigzag right into the egg.

Now for the head and the horn.

Down, up to a point.

And then smiling.

Then down into the egg.

And two eyes.

One, two.

(bell dings) A little bit more ground surface.

And that's it.

That's our triceratops.

(triumphant music) Sign your name.

Take pride in your work.

Thanks for tuning in.

(dinosaur roaring) (gentle inspirational music) (dinosaur roars) (birds chirping)