(lively music) - I'm Joe Wos, welcome to Cartoon Academy.

Thanks for tooning in.

(playful music) (dinging) One of Australia's most adorable animals is the koala.

We're gonna learn how to draw a koala right now and we're gonna give him a friend as well.

Let's draw.

We're gonna start with the eyes.

The eyes are an oval.

And right next to that, we draw another oval.

Next, add little dots in the eyes, the pupils.

Just like that.

Now, the nose is a triangle shape but we're not gonna have points on the ends of our triangle.

We're gonna sort of round them off a little bit.

See, a rounded triangle.

Now, inside of that triangle, we're gonna add another oval at a slight slant.

And then we wanna color in all around that, leaving that little bit of white space for a reflection on the nose.

Go ahead and fill that all the way in.

There we go.

Now for the mouth.

We have the letter J and a dash.

The letter J backwards and a dash.

And there's the little line right underneath the lower lip.

And the eyebrows, one, two, one, two.

On the top of the head, we're gonna add a little bit of hair.

It looks like this.

Now we're gonna draw the head and we wanna be able to show that there's a texture.

Texture is how something feels when you touch it.

A tree, the bark might feel very rough.

Paper might feel very smooth.

We want this texture to look like fur so that if you were to touch the koala, it would feel like a soft fur.

The way we create texture is with our lines.

So our line is gonna go sort of back and forth, back and forth, back and forth to give a little bit of a fur texture to it.

It looks like this.

We're gonna come down a little bit, back and forth.

And then on this side, come all the way round, back and forth, back and forth.

Keep going around and we'll stop right about there.

Now we're gonna add the ear.

Come out, keep that texture going.

Down.

A little zigzag and bring that back up.

All the way in.

Now for the cheeks.

Same thing, keep that fuzzy little texture going there.

And then the inner part of the ear looks like this.

There's a little more rounded texture to it.

That makes it look a little bit softer.

Now for the body, arms and legs.

Starting right up here, you come down, round, keep going, around and that's gonna form a lower leg.

Now for the arm, it's the same kind of shape.

Out.

Around.

And in.

Now, we're gonna make our koala up in a tree.

Koalas spend a lot of their time in eucalyptus trees because they eat eucalyptus but they also spend a lot of time in that tree sleeping.

Up to 18 hours a day.

So we're gonna add a eucalyptus tree.

We're gonna start with a line right up, not quite at the top of the page, just a little bit down.

Right to the cheek and then an imaginary line through.

The arm and then from the arm to the leg and the rest of the way down off the page.

Starting right at that same spot, come down.

Leave a little space there.

Down.

Leave a little space there.

Down and leave one last space.

Good.

Those spaces we're gonna add the other arm curled around, hugging that tree.

Same thing here, curled around, hugging the tree.

And this last one, we're gonna add a branch but we're gonna save that for just a little bit later.

Add a little line connecting the tree to the cheek to finish the body.

And then we add paws, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two.

The other ear goes right here.

A line from the head to the tree, all the way around, down, zigzag and up.

And then add that inner ear like that.

Now, for the top of the tree, we're gonna add some foliage.

Foliage is just another word for all the leaves.

And we can add a little bit of texture to that too by adding some little Vs that will look like leaves.

Now let's add some texture to the tree bark.

I love drawing tree bark.

It's just these quick little lines like this and one of the fun things you can do is you can hide your name in the tree bark.

There's my name, Joe Wos.

J-O-E W-O-S. Now, right here is where we're gonna add that branch 'cause we're gonna give him a friend, we're gonna give him a little kookaburra friend.

A kookaburra is a bird from Australia.

We're gonna start with the beak.

Out, point, in and up to form a triangle.

Now for the head.

Come up.

We're gonna add a feather texture this time.

And then down.

Over and up.

It's sort of a square or a rectangular shape, isn't it?

We're gonna have the little line on the beak like this to form the mouth.

Now the eye.

Out, around, in and connect.

Sort of a walnut or lemon shape to it.

Then we add in a circle.

And then a pupil.

Then I want you to color in all around the eye just like this.

Color it all the way in.

Fill that in complete, very good.

Now for the wing.

The wing's very simple.

It's sort of the letter V. Now we're gonna add the claws or talons, the feet that are holding onto the branch.

It looks like this.

Down, around, up.

Down, around, in.

Down, around, up.

Down, around and up.

Now we've gotta continue the branch right to the claws and then through, out, add the letter V and in.

Add a little bit of texture to the branch too.

Let's add a couple of leaves.

One, two, maybe three.

And then the tail feather is just the letter W. We could use a W to add some feathers for the texture as well.

You're all done.

That is your koala and your kookaburra.

Be sure to sign your name.

Take pride in your work.

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

See you next time.

(lively music) - [Narrator] Funding for this program is provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Education for Learning at Home.