(bright music) - What makes us all unique?

We're celebrating diversity, emotions, and friendships on Cartoon Academy.

(bright music) What makes a really great friendship?

Well, one of the things that makes a great friendship is helping each other.

We're gonna draw a symbiotic relationship.

This is the kind of relationship where two or more animals help each other out.

In this case, a rhino and a few of his bird friends.

Let's draw.

We begin with the eyes.

Oval, and a letter C backwards.

The pupils.

One, two.

The eyebrows.

One, two, three, little dashes.

One, two, three.

Now for the snout and horn.

A line down, and then we're gonna add the horn.

When drawing a rhinoceros's horn, it's best to come right to the point.

(people groan) Up, point and down.

The lip is a line down and then up with a bend.

Over, up and a letter C backwards to form the cheek.

The lower jaw is a letter V, and then a slightly larger letter V, like so.

Draw the tongue inside the mouth with a curved line.

Fill in around it.

Now we add a nostril.

It's an upside down letter U and a little dash.

Now we're gonna add some shading to the horn.

Whenever you're at shading, you think about where your light source is coming from.

In this case, we're gonna imagine the sun is up here, so that means shadows would fall to the left side.

We'll just do some line shading.

A few quick little lines on the backside of the horn.

We then come up, arch down, and we're going to add the ear.

Out.

Point, in and stop.

Now for the interior or inside of the ear.

Out, point and in.

Now for the back of our rhinoceros.

You bring a line down, out, up slightly, around and down, right to there where we're gonna put the leg.

Now we're gonna start from the other direction for the front of the rhino.

A line down, and then we're gonna add the first leg.

We start with a letter V. Down, out slightly, in, up and around.

The hind leg is very similar.

We come out, in slightly, up, add a line.

A curved line across the belly.

Now for the other legs.

Down, out, in.

Down, out, and in.

Toenails, we just used letter M, letter M, letter M, letter M. And one more time.

Now for the tail.

Out, point up and in.

And then a little fluff here on the end.

We're going to add some wrinkles on the knees.

The wrinkles on the knees are just letter Es.

Letter E. Letter E. Right behind here we see one more ear sort of sticking up in the back.

There's our rhino.

Now we're going to give him his bird friends.

Now the birds provide a symbiotic relationship helping the rhino by picking off little bugs and ticks and other parasites, so it helps 'em out.

It can also use its call to alert the rhinoceros whenever danger is approaching.

We're gonna start with a bird right here on the back.

Circle.

Letter C. Period and period.

The beak is a letter V turned on its side that we then stretch out and then bring a line to cap off the end.

For the head, just a couple little feathers.

Looks like a letter W. Add one more, and in.

A line down, out, letter D forms a wing.

Bring down the body, round and up.

Letter U up into the neck.

And then another letter D for the wing.

He's just sort of sitting on the backside there.

So we draw a line down and then a letter V for the feet.

Out, down.

Letter V. For the tail feathers, just sort of take a letter M on its side and stretch it out.

Now we add eyebrows, one, two.

That's our first bird.

Let's give him another friend too.

Circle.

Letter C. Period and period.

The beak.

And up.

Again, the feathers on the side of the head.

Come down, down, around and up with a letter U.

And the wings again are a letter D. For the legs and feet.

Line down, letter V, down, letter V. There's another wing sticking out here.

And then eyebrows.

I'm gonna add a couple little hairs on top of the head.

Now that may seem like a minor thing, but actually there's a really good reason I'm doing that.

I'm trying to create a balanced image, so I want things to be the same sort of height across the image.

This is called scale, the size of things.

So if you look at the size of the birds and the size of the rhino, there's a big difference, but I want it to all sort of line up and be even.

So across the top now you'll see that the hair lines up with the top of the birds.

We're now gonna add our setting.

Setting is where or when a story takes place.

We're just gonna add some ground surface, notice the back and forth or texture of the line.

Now let's add some tall grass.

Up, down, up, down, up and back in.

Same thing on the other side.

This is to help balance the drawing.

Up, down, up, down, up and down.

There's our rhinoceros and his best friends.

Be sure to sign your name.

Take pride in your work.

Thanks for tuning in, and thanks for being a friend.