(bright playful music) (dinosaur roaring) - We're traveling back in time to when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

This is "Cartoon Academy," stay tuned.

(pen scratching) (footsteps banging) (dinosaur growling) We're going to draw the king of the dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Ready, set, let's draw.

We're gonna begin with the brow above the eyes.

Come around, and back in.

(spring bouncing) Put a couple quick lines right here at the corner of the eye.

On the eye itself, sort of a letter C on its side.

Right next to that, the other brow, and the other eye.

(spring bouncing) Next to the pupils are the little dots in the eyes, one and two.

Now for the snout.

Come around and down, out slightly to add a little bit of a lip, and then in, up, and around.

For the corner of the mouth, add one, two marks.

We're gonna add some bags under the eyes like this.

Two little lines right here.

And then the nostril.

Up, around, then fill that in.

Now the lower jaw.

So right where we have this little bump in the line, in his mouth, we come down, out, square it off.

It's a letter L shape.

In, up, and around to form the jaw.

Now for the teeth, you get as many or as few as you want.

If you want it to be a friendlier dinosaur you could make the teeth a little more rounded.

But I want a rather ferocious dinosaur.

But it's just a letter V over and over.

The inside of the mouth, we're gonna add just the hint of the tongue, a line down.

And then we wanna color in all of this.

There we go.

Good.

Now for the top of the head, starting about ooh halfway over on this first brow, we come up, down, and then we split that right there into a second line.

Now from the front of the neck, down and in slightly there, with that line.

And then we're gonna add the arms right here.

Short little arms.

- [Voiceover] So cute!

- Letter V, out.

And then one, two, letter C, in, and back.

That's our first arm.

(spring bouncing) Continue down.

And then an imaginary line goes through that arm, continues down to about here.

Now we're gonna add the first leg.

Around, and out for a number two shape.

Down, line out and down, line out and down.

In, up, around.

At the end of those toes, we have the toenails.

One, two, three.

Let's connect this, there we go.

Then we're gonna bring up the tail and then we'll add the other leg.

Continuing through, again, imaginary line through.

We come around and up to a point, and then follow it back in and connect.

Next, the other leg.

Around, number two, down, in, down, in, down.

Connect it to the other foot, and in.

Now we have the toenails.

One, two, three.

The other hand, it just sort of tucked right back here.

We just see the one finger sticking out.

Let's add a little bit of texture.

Just a couple little bumps here and there, maybe some wrinkles on the knees.

And then let's add a little texture to the underbelly.

We're gonna add a line down to the arm and then from the arm to the leg.

Do some lines across, like this.

Good.

Now we're gonna add a bit of setting.

Setting is where or when a story takes place.

We're gonna add a couple different elements of setting.

We're going to add foreground, which is everything in front of the character, middle ground, which is everything right where the character is standing and interacting with, and background, everything behind the character.

Let's start with a little bit of foreground.

We're just gonna add some tall grass, here and there.

(bright whimsical music) There we go, that's in front.

Now the middle ground, we have a little bit of land here.

And I think I'm gonna add a little plant right here.

Come around, sort of a bowl shape, and then we just add a zigzag.

One, two, three, maybe four or five.

And then we're gonna do that again.

We're gonna repeat it, but a little bit smaller.

Around, zigzag and in.

Let's do that again.

Around, zigzag and in.

And then we're gonna add the leaves.

There we go.

Maybe just a little line right down the middle of those.

Good.

We're gonna continue over with our middle ground.

And let's work in maybe a palm tree.

We come up, point back in.

Then we add just a little bit of the roots, and we continue through with our land right there.

Next are the fronds of the palm.

Those are the leaves.

(spring bouncing) One, two, three, oh maybe four.

And again, just a line down the middle.

We're gonna add some texture to the tree itself.

We want this to feel like bark, so we're just gonna draw the letter w over and over.

(bell dinging) There we go.

So we have our foreground, what's in front of the dinosaur, our middle ground where the dinosaur is standing.

Lastly, the background, or everything behind the dinosaur.

We're gonna add a volcano.

(spring bouncing) Come up with a squiggly line, down.

Follow that back up, leaving a little bit of a gap.

Over, again this is gonna be our path for the lava.

(spring bouncing) So you want to be a little bit scribbly, and over, and down.

Our volcano is exploding.

I think our dinosaur is a little bit worried.

He's had nervous wreckx.

(laugh track playing) Continue over.

Maybe there's some mountains here in the background.

And there's our background.

We're all done.

- [Voiceover] Yay!

- Sign your name.

Take pride in your work.

You've just learned how to draw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Hope to see you again real soon, so stay tuned.

(bright upbeat music) (spectators oohing and ahhing) (music fades)