(bright upbeat music) - Welcome to Cartoon Academy.

I'm Joe Wos.

Thanks for toon-ing in.

(music fades) Today, we're going to visit a winter wonderland.

(light gentle music) One of my favorite winter time activities is building a snowman, so today, I'm gonna show you how to draw a snowman.

Now, if you've drawn a snowman before, you've probably used a circle as your base shape.

But if we use a circle, our snowman is just gonna roll away, so we're gonna flatten out the base of that and we're gonna open up the top for more of a letter-U shape.

Come down, around, and up.

We're gonna repeat that same shape two more times.

Each time, it's gonna get a little bit larger.

So down, around, and up.

Down, around, and up.

Now we're gonna add the face.

I like to make a traditional snowman so we're gonna use a carrot for a nose.

Starting from about the middle of the face, we come out, in, and around.

Uh-oh, I made a mistake but that's okay.

Everybody makes mistakes.

It's one of the ways we learn.

Now, there are a couple of things you can do when you make a mistake.

You could set it aside and start over, but I don't really wanna do that.

You can erase it, but I'm using a marker so I can't erase.

So my last option is I can learn to fix my mistake.

Ya can't always erase the mistakes you make in life but you can learn to fix them.

So I'm gonna look at this line that goes right through here.

That's where I made the mistake.

I'm gonna turn that into a little bit of texture.

Texture is how something feels when you touch it, and carrots have these rough ridges.

There we go.

We fixed our mistake.

Now we're gonna finish the rest of the face.

We're gonna add the eyes, two eyes made out of coal.

One, two.

Now, for my favorite part, we're gonna have a little bit of expression on the face.

Expression is one way we can show emotion, how a character feels.

This is a very happy snowman so we're gonna add dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash.

That's called dashing through the snow.

Now we're going to add a costume.

Costume is what a character wears that helps tell us who they are.

Everybody wears a certain kind of costume, but imagine certain professions like a firefighter or a police officer or a teacher.

Now think about what they wear, how they dress.

That gives us a little bit of information about who they are.

That is costume.

For a snowman, we're gonna have a top hat, so we have a line coming across the top, and then on the sides, you turn that into a letter G, and the letter G backwards, and then a line connecting the two.

Now for the top of the hat.

Go up, over, and down for a sort of square shape, and a line across for the hat band.

Now we're gonna add a bit more costume.

We're gonna give him a bow tie.

For bow tie, it's a square and then two hearts on their side: One, and two, and dash, dash.

Now for some buttons.

Circle, letter C inside, and then one, two.

Circle, letter C, one, two.

For the arms, we're gonna use twigs or sticks.

Go out and up, out and up.

Out and down, out and down.

We're gonna add a little bit of texture to make it look like wood.

Just some quick little lines.

Just so, there we go.

Now for the hands, we're gonna add mittens.

We draw a line across, up slightly, letter C, and then an upside-down letter U, and connect.

Same thing for the other hand.

Line across, down, letter C, and letter U.

Let's add a little bit of elastic right around the wrist of the mittens.

A line across, and one, two, three lines.

Line across, one, two, and three.

We're gonna add a bit of setting just to tell us where he is.

We just wanna add some snow.

Just, there we go.

And maybe the sun is shining up here in the corner.

We're gonna add some shading.

Now, shading and shadow are the opposite of where your light source is, so the light source, the sun, is providing the light, which would go right down this side here, so all the shadows and shading would be on the opposite side over here.

We're gonna start with some line shading and line shading is exactly what it sounds like.

You just use lines.

Just real quick little lines and add some shadow.

Good, now we're gonna add a cast shadow.

This is the shadow that is cast from the light hitting the snowman, so it's behind and below your snowman.

We draw a line like this, and then we're going to color in all of that shadow.

We just wanna color that in.

(light enchanting music) There we go.

(light enchanting music) Speaking of coloring in, sometimes a little bit of color can bring a character to life, so let's add just a little bit of color.

I'm gonna use a crayon to color in the nose so it's orange, and then the hat band, I think I'll make that green.

Don't worry about coloring in the lines.

It's okay if it's a little bit messy.

It's your drawing.

How 'bout some blue for the hat?

Some dark blue.

(light enchanting music) The bow tie and the mittens, we gonna make them red.

(light enchanting music) And the rest is up to you.

You can color in the buttons, the sun, the background.

It's your drawing so make it your own.

Be sure to sign your name.

Take pride in your work.

Hope you enjoyed learning how to draw a snowman today.

I'm Joe Wos.

Be sure and stay tuned!

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