Cartoon Academy
Quick Draw: Drawing a Forest Friend
Season 4 Episode 9 | 3m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Learning to draw is as easy as ABC using the letters O-W-L to create a wise owl character.
In this episode of Cartoon Academy Quick Draws, Pittsburgh Cartoonist Joe Wos shows how learning to draw is as easy as ABC using the letters O-W-L to create a wise owl character.
Cartoon Academy
Quick Draw: Drawing a Forest Friend
Season 4 Episode 9 | 3m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
In this episode of Cartoon Academy Quick Draws, Pittsburgh Cartoonist Joe Wos shows how learning to draw is as easy as ABC using the letters O-W-L to create a wise owl character.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Learning to draw is as easy as A, B, C. I'm gonna show you how to draw an owl using the letters in its name, O, W, and L. We're gonna start with the i's.
We're gonna use the letter O, letter O, and right next to it another letter O.
Now, there are two important things to know about owls and cartoons.
First, owls are very sleepy because they're up all night and they sleep all day.
Owls are also portrayed as being very, very smart in cartoons, so we need to do two things.
First, we need to give our owl heavy eyelids, so he looks like he's very sleepy and tired.
Next, we're going to give him glasses because it is a well-known fact that very, very smart people almost always wear glasses.
To do that, we're gonna use the letter L turned on its side, letter L, letter L. That gives us the eyelids and the glasses.
Next, we add the pupils one and two.
For the beak.
We're gonna take the letter W and turn it on its side.
It looks like this W and then a curved line connecting them.
Now we're gonna give it very bushy eyebrows because it is a well known fact that very, very smart people almost always have bushy eyebrows.
We're just gonna take letter W over and over until it turns into a nice messy scribble for either side of the head.
A letter W, a line down, and W, same thing on other side line down and W working our way across W, W, and W. Next are the wings.
Wings begins with letter W, so we'll use Ws for wings.
W And w. Use a line to connect the left wing to the right wing.
Now we're going to add texture.
Texture is how something feels.
We want it to look like it feels like feathers.
To do that, we just add random ws all throughout.
Next to the legs, legs begins with the letter L, letter L, letter L. Between the eyebrows, we draw a little line connecting, and then maybe one feather sticking up.
Sign your name.
Take pride in your work.
There's your owl.