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

Welcome to Cartoon Academy!

(upbeat music) One of the most interesting and unusual animals in the whole world is the platypus.

It is such a cool creature.

We're gonna have so much fun drawing this one.

Let's begin.

We're gonna start with the eyes.

With a large oval like this.

Right next to it is a letter C backwards.

And then the pupils.

Platypus is a combination of a lot of different kinds of animals.

For instance, it has a beak that's very similar to a duck.

So we're gonna start off with a duck's bill.

Starting from, about a quarter of the way up on this eye come out.

Down.

Up.

And add a dash.

Down.

Up.

And we're gonna follow that line down, up, and around.

We're gonna see a little bit of the tongue just inside the mouth like so.

And then go ahead and cover the rest of that in.

Good.

Two lines right on top of the beak.

And then eyebrows.

The body of a platypus is actually a lot like an otter.

So we're gonna draw the body.

Going around, we get a little bit of texture to it to show that it's fur.

All the way around like this and stop.

Now, for the front of the body, come down, around, and in.

It's sort of a peanut shape.

Now for the arms.

Letter V. Out.

One, two, three, and four.

In, add an elbow, and up.

Another arm is right here.

Out.

One, two, three, four, and in.

Now for the legs.

Start off with a sort of a number two shape and then come out, and in.

Out and in.

Out and in.

That gives us feet like a duck.

Those are flippers that he uses to swim.

Come in and connect, and then up slightly.

The other foot is right over here.

Down, there's a number two.

In, out.

In, out.

And in.

And again, you want to connect in-between.

Now for the tail.

The tail looks a lot like a beaver's tail.

Out.

Up.

Around.

Down, and in.

We're gonna have a thin line that goes right along all the way up to the top.

And then we're gonna add the texture.

We're gonna add a grid.

Tic-tac-toe grid or maybe a waffle.

Just some vertical lines and horizontal lines.

Vertical lines go up and down.

Horizontal lines go across.

Just like that.

Now we're gonna add a little bit of texture to the fur.

Platypus's fur is actually waterproof, which is good, because they spend a lot of time in the water.

Just some lines like that.

Now we're gonna add a second animal from Australia into our drawing.

We're gonna add a crocodile.

We're gonna start off by giving our platypus a little bit of land to stand on here.

Just a quick little bit of land like that.

There we go.

And now for a crocodile.

Let's start with the eyes.

Circle.

And then a slightly smaller circle.

Pupils in the eyes just like that.

Now for the eyebrows.

Up.

Down.

In.

Up, down, back in.

Let's add some bags under the eyes like this.

Around and around.

Now for that long snout.

Those little bumps in the lines like that.

Arrow shape, down, up, and a great big smile.

Now let's add some teeth.

Teeth are just the letter V over and over.

It doesn't happen to be perfectly straight.

A nice crooked smile gives our crocodile a lot of personality.

Now for the lower part of the mouth.

Come down, out, and then back in slightly.

Let's add some more teeth.

Sharp teeth.

Now from the top of the mouth, a little bit beyond the middle here, strong line down.

And then you're gonna color in so we can see inside the mouth.

I'm gonna try and leave the teeth.

So careful not to color over them too much.

There we go.

Let's add the nostril.

And a dash, and another dash right there.

Now we're gonna come down to have the back, a couple of little bumps like that, right to the very edge of the page.

Come down just a little.

And then we're gonna have one of the arms sort of sticking out of the water.

Come out.

One, two, three, and back in.

Add a little wrinkle right there.

Now we're gonna add some water to make him sort of splashing, coming out of the water or hiding there.

Just real quick little squiggly lines creates the illusion of water.

And then we're gonna add some texture onto our crocodile.

Some scales, just some quick little letter U.

Small litter U.

And a couple of lines on a snout like this.

There you go.

There is your crocodile and platypus.

Be sure to sign your name and 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!

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