(bright music) - This is Cartoon Academy and we are about to blast off into outer space.

Three, two, one, launch!

Welcome to Cartoon Academy.

You know one of the things I love about cartoons, is a lot of the wonderful innovations we have in this world, from cell phones to rocket ships and space travel, started out as something we imagined first, in our comics, and in our cartoons, and in our films a lot of pop culture becomes reality.

But you have to think it, and dream it, before you can do it.

We're going to begin by drawing our astronaut.

We're gonna start with his space suit, the helmet specifically.

It's gonna be a circle.

We draw a slightly larger circle, just outside of that one.

Then we draw the neck piece, line down, over, and up.

Now we have to draw the face of the character, within the helmet.

We're gonna start with the outline of the hair, right up here.

Little lines like that.

And then we bring down a line for the head, right towards the helmet, line for the head, right towards the helmet.

Finish up the hair on the sides.

Put two very short little lines.

And we add the ears.

Now we're going to color in the hair.

For our face, we're going to start with the eyes, an oval, and another one right next to it.

And then the pupils, a dot here, and a dot here.

Eyebrows.

Two quick dashes, one, two.

Next, the nose.

Down, and in.

And we have him smiling, because he's gonna be making a new friend.

Line across, dash, dash.

Now for the space suit.

We're gonna have him waving to his new friend.

So we're gonna draw a line out here, and one here for the shoulders.

And then down, and in, down and in, down, over, and up.

Now the arms.

Put a letter V, down, and another letter V, ends up looking sort of like an M. Same thing on the other side.

And now for the glove, we come up, add a thumb, notice they're squared off.

One, two, three, and in.

Now for the other glove, down, one, two, three, four, and up.

And we have a belt going across the waist, line down, over, square, over, and up.

So it's rectangle, square, rectangle.

Then there's a couple of quick lines here and there.

On the chess plate, we're gonna add a little control box.

Square, circle, circle, circle, and a rectangle.

Now for the lower part of the body, and the legs.

Come down, in, over, up, in.

The legs.

Again, we have sort of that accordion with a bunch of letter Vs, over, same thing here as well.

Sort of a letter M on its side, over, and connect.

Now for the boots, down, over, up slightly, around, and up.

Here we go again, down, over, up, around, and up.

Now we're just gonna add some minor details.

We have a backpack.

So from the helmet, to the glove, and from the glove to the side, helmet, the glove and the glove to the side.

We have an air tube going from that backpack to the helmet.

Curved lines, and a small rectangle.

We could add a little antenna here too.

Wonderful.

A little bit of the lunar surface here, just a scribbly little line.

And then right about here, we're gonna add our robot.

We're gonna start with a rectangular head shape, that's slightly slanted.

We're gonna add a little bit of depth, by adding a square shape right here.

Now for the face.

We have a circle, and another circle.

But the pupils are little dashes, vertical dashes.

Now the mouth.

Line going across, down, over and up.

One, two lines.

The top of the head, we have a little rectangle, and a little light bulb, zig zaggy line, rectangle, around, back.

And inside of that, just a letter Y.

And then, he's having a bright idea.

Eyebrows, two little lines.

Now for the neck.

Over, one down, another square.

Lots of squares and rectangles when you draw a robot, and another rectangle, over, down, over, up, and in, with another rectangle, over, and down.

Leave a little bit of a gap.

Over and in.

The reason we left that gap, is 'cause that's where we need to add the arms.

Down, over and up, down and in.

And now our arms.

One, two, one, two.

For the hands, we're gonna give them little claws.

We come around, letter U, over, and in, around, letter U, over, and in, circle, circle, and then some lines.

Very good.

What did the robots say when he had to leave?

"I've gotta bolt."

(rim shot) (audience laughing) We're gonna add some bolts right here.

One, two, one, two.

Same him up here, one, two, and then just a few more.

Excellent.

Let's add a little bit of depth right here, and right here.

For the legs, we're actually just gonna give him a wheel.

So we draw a little rectangle down, around, over, and back up.

And add the wheel.

On the chess plate, we've got a speaker, oh and a couple little lights.

Finish by adding our lunar surface, with a few craters, and some texture.

And in the background, we don't see the Moon, because they're on the Moon.

We see the planet Earth.

That's it.

Be sure to sign your name.

Take pride in your work.

Thanks for joining us on the lunar surface.

Stay tuned.