>> HI, I'M JIM ARNOSKY.

AND THIS IS THE FOURTH AND FINAL SHOW IN MY SERIES "DRAWING FROM NATURE."

THIS IS SHOW IT ALL ABOUT ANIMALS.

AND WHILE MASTERING ANIMAL ANATOMY IS IMPORTANT TO AN ARTIST, I AM GOING TO SHOW YOU TODAY THAT IT'S ALSO JUST AS IMPORTANT TO LEARN ALL YOU CAN ABOUT THE ANIMALS YOU DRAW, WHAT THEY EAT, WHERE THEY LIVE, AND HOW BIG THEY ARE, AND SO ON.

AND SO WE ARE GOING TO GO OUTSIDE AND KEEP OUR EYES WIDE OPEN IN CASE WE GLIMPSE ANIMAL BUT WE ARE GOING TO BE OUT BEING IN THE PLACES WHERE ANIMALS LIVE.

WE WILL SEE WHAT KIND OF PICTURES THAT THEY CAN SUGGEST FOR US TO DO TODAY.

>> "DRAWING FROM NATURE" IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY A GRANT FROM THE MENTILAC FOUNDATION.

♪ ♪ >> THIS IS THE KIND OF PLACE WHERE IF YOU SAT HERE LONG ENOUGH YOU MIGHT SEE ALL SORTS OF ANIMALS, THEN AGAIN, YOU WOULD HAVE TO SIT HERE LONG ENOUGH, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO COME OUT AND STAND THERE FOR YOU TO SEE THEM.

BUT WHEN I SIT IN A PLACE LIKE THIS, I CAN IMAGINE, DEER COMING UP.

JUST IMAGINE A DOE COMING UP CLOSE TO THIS TREE AND REACHING UP WITH THEIR LONG NECK AND PULLING OFF A COUPLE OF APPLES AND PUTTING ONE IN THIS SIDE OF HER MOUTH AND THE OTHER IN THIS SIDE OF THE MOUTH AND JUST STANDING THERE AND MUNCHING AWAY.

THE MORE YOU SPEND TIME IN THE PLACES WHERE ANIMALS LIVE, THE MORE THAT YOU GET AN IDEA OF WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE THEM.

UP CAN'T EXPECT TO GO OUT AND JUST HAVE THE ANIMALS APPEAR FOR YOU SO THAT THEY CAN GIVE YOU IDEAS FOR THE DRAWING.

YOU HAVE TO LEARN TO TAKE WHAT THE ANIMALS GIVE YOU.

IT HAS THEIR PRESENCE AND THEIR LIVES, AND MAKE THE MOST OF IT, AND LEARNING TO READ, THE SIGNS , THESIGNS THEY LEAVE BEHIND ISN IMPORTANT PART.

IF YOU LEARN TO READ THE SIGNS, THAT ANIMAL WILL LEAVE BEHIND, LONG AFTER THE ANIMAL IS GONE, YOU WILL HAVE A LITTLE PIECE OF THAT ANIMAL'S LIFE THAT YOU COULD THEN MAKE INTO A PICTURE.

YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE THAT ANIMAL.

THIS IS A PLACE THAT IS NOT ONLY A GOOD PLACE TO SEE ANIMALS THAT ARE, THAT ARE ALIVE AND COMING AROUND IF THEY LAND IN HERE.

THIS IS A PLACE THAT SHOWS THAT ANIMALS FREQUENT IT OFTEN, AND THERE IS A LOT OF OLD SIGNS SHOWING THAT ANIMALS HAVE BEEN COMING HERE FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS.

LONG AGO, WHEN THIS TREE WAS STILL YOUNG, GROWING, A BEAVER CAME UP AND CHEWED AWAY THE LIVING PART OF THE WOOD.

YOU COULD SEE ALL THE OLD CHEW MARKS IN HERE.

AND THEN IT CHEWED PAST THE LIVING PART OF THE WOOD AND INTO THE WOOD, THE INSIDE OF THE TREE, AND YOU CAN SEE LOOK AT THE INDENT IT MADE.

IT WENT IN ABOUT, I GUESS, ABOUT TWO INCHES IN TO THE TREE.

FOR SOME REASON, IT DECIDED TO QUIT, AND NEVER CAME BACK TO THIS TREE, BUT THE DAMAGE -- WHAT IT HAD DONE UP TO THIS POINT, ALL AROUND HERE, WAS ENOUGH TO KILL THIS SIDE OF THE TREE.

THIS TREE DYING BECAME THE STAGE FOR ALL SORTS OF ANIMAL ACTIVITY AND SIGNS ON IT.

AND LOOK, AS THE TREE WAS DYING, AND THE WOOD WAS ROTTING, CARPENTER ANTS CAME INTO THE TREE.

STARTED TO CHEW THIS, AND THE MOISTURE GETTING IN AND ROTTING THE WOOD, AND THIS, THE ANTS LIVING IN THE TREE, BUGS MOVING IN, THAT ATTRACTED A LARGE WOODPECKER, AND THAT'S WHAT THE HOLES ARE FROM.

THIS IS NOT MADE BY THE CARPENTER ANTS.

INSIDE IS WHAT T CARPENTER ANTS DID, AND THE WOODPECKER KNOCKED AWAY THIS ROTTED OLD WOOD JUST TO GET IN THERE AND EAT THOSE ANTS.

I CAN JUST HEAR IT, WHILE THIS WOODPECKER KNOCKS TO GET IN UNDERNEATH THOSE ANTS.

AFTER THE WOODPECKER GOT WHAT IT WANTED, IT LOOKS LIKE IT GOT A LOT BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT OF HOLES DOWN HERE.

ONE OF THE HOLES BECAME A NESTING SITE FOR A MOUSE.

THERE IS A PICTURE.

LOOK AT THE WORN WOOD.

JUST IMAGINE YOUR DRAWING LINES, CAPTURING THE FEELING OF THAT WORN WOOD, AND THEN A BIT OF THIS MOUSE NESTING MATERIAL SHOWN, AND THEN A MOUSE PEEKING OUT.

THAT'S A PICTURE.

IT IS BASED ON REALITY, AND DRAWING FROM NATURE.

LOOK AT THIS, ALL THIS DETAIL IN THE WOOD.

ALL THAT IS INTERESTING ALL BY ITSELF, AND THEN YOU HAVE THIS, TO TOP IT ALL OFF, THE CENTER OF THE INTEREST.

I DON'T KNOW HOW FAR DOWN THAT GOES.

WE WILL LEAVE IT ALONE, AND MAYBE ANOTHER MOUSE WILL USE IT NEXT YEAR.

YEARS AGO, WHEN THIS TREE WAS HEALTHY AND, AND FILLED WITH ANIMAL -- FILLED WITH APPLES FOR ANIMALS TO COME AND EAT, BEAVER CAME UP HERE, AND CHEWED AWAY THE BARK AND CHEWED INTO THE WOOD AND FINALLY, DECIDED TO QUIT AND FOR SOME REASON LEFT.

THAT KILLED THE SIDE OF THE TREE HERE THAT WE'RE SITTING ON.

SET THE STAGE FOR THE ROTTING OF THE WOOD.

AND GAVE THE WOODPECKER A GOOD REASON TO COME IN HERE AND TO KNOCK A BUNCH OF HOLES INTO THIS THING, AND EVENTUALLY, PROVIDED A NEST HOLE FOR A MOUSE.

THERE IS A LOT THAT YOU CAN LEARN JUST FROM LOOKING AT ANIMAL SIGNS.

SOME OF MY BEST PICTURES THAT I HAVE DRAWN, AND I HAVE DRAWN A LOT OF PICTURES, I AM SHOWING THIS STUFF FOR WEEKS, BUT THESE ARE JUST FOUR WEEKS OF MY LIFE.

I SPENT MY WHOLE LIFE DRAWING PICTURES OF WILDLIFE AND NATURE SUBJECTS, AND SOME OF MY BEST DRAWINGS, EVEN NOW, I CAN THINK OF WERE BASED ON THE SIMPLEST LITTLE SIGN THAT I HAD FOUND.

I HAD DONE ONE DRAWING.

I REMEMBER OF A FOX SKIRTING THE BARN.

I KNEW THE FOX WAS THERE.

I HAD SEEN HIM.

BUT, IT WAS NOT UNTIL THAT ONE MORNING WHEN I NOTICED THAT LITTLE LINE OF TRACKS SKIRTING MY BARN.

THAT LITTLE BONY CHEST OF THE FOX KEEPING HIS LEGS CLOSE TOGETHER, HIS SLENDER TRACK, AND IN THE SNOW, AND SKIRTING MY BARN.

THE TRACKS SAID MORE THAN ANY OF THE GLIMPSES OF THE FOX THAT I HAD UP TO THAT POINT.

THAT CREATED A GREAT PICTURE.

ONE PICTURE I GREW OF THE VERY LARGE BEAR WAS BASED ON THE FIRST BASED ON, ON A SIGN THAT I WAS FOLLOWING, AND IT'S A KIND OF -- IT'S FUNNY NOW WHEN I THINK OF IT, BUT IT WAS NOT WHEN IT HAPPENED, BUT I HAD BEEN FOLLOWING THIS LARGE BEAR'S TRACKS THROUGH THE REMNANTS OF SNOW IN THE SPRING.

AND BEAR WAS CLEARLY LICKING THESE LITTLE SAPLINGS THAT A BEAVER HAD CHEWED RECENTLY, AND THEN THE SAPLINGS WERE DRIPPING FRESH SAP FROM BEING CHEWED OFF AND BROKEN OFF, AND THE BEAR HAD BEEN GOING THROUGH THIS LAST REMNANTS OF THE COUPLE OF INCHES OF SNOW LEAVING A CLEAR TRACK, AND COMING TO THESE CHEWED SAPLINGS AND LICKING THEM, AND I WAS SO INVOLVED LOOKING AT THE TRACKS AND LOOKING AT THE SAPLINGS, THAT I DIDN'T NOTICE THAT RIGHT ACROSS FROM ME WAS THE BEAR, AND THE BEAR WAS STANDING THERE ABOUT 100 FEET OR SO FROM ME, AND IT WAS A BIG BEAR, AND I DON'T KNOW, IF YOU EVER HAVE BEEN IN BEAR COUNTRY, JUST KNOWING THAT THEY ARE THERE, BEARS ARE WILD, FURY CREATURES THAT ARE LOOSE IN THE WOODS.

THAT'S ALL -- THAT'S WHAT BEARS ARE.

IF YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS A BEAR AROUND SOME PLACE, IT SENDS A RIVER RIGHT UP, RIGHT UP YOUR BACK.

I AM CRAZY I SUPPOSE BECAUSE I LIKE THAT FEELING, BUT THIS ONE PARTICULAR DAY, I WAS A LITTLE TOO CLOSE, AND THE BEAR WAS STANDING IN THIS DRY GRASSES AND STARING RIGHT AT ME.

AND I WAS LOOKING AT THE BEAR.

, AND I SAW THE BEAR, AND THEN I FIGURED WELL, I WILL -- I MIGHT AS WELL GET A CLOSE LOOK BEFORE HE COMES OVER AND RAKES ME, YOU KNOW.

SO, I AM LOOKING LIKE THIS AT THE BEAR, AND NOW I AM LOOKING RIGHT UP HIS NOSE.

AS I AM LOOKING UP HIS NOSE, I NOTICED THAT HIS SIZE ARE GETTING MUCH MORE INTENT ON ME, SO IN FEAR, MY KNEES WENT, AND I STARTED TO DO THIS, SLOWLY.

AND FINALLY, IN A VERY SLOW MOTION WAY, I ENDED UP NEARLY GOING FROM FEAR BUT I WAS NOT ABOUT TO LOSE THAT BEAR IN MY VISION.

JUST AS I WAS FRIGHTENED ENOUGH TO RUN, THE BEAR GOT FRIGHTENED AND TOOK OFF AND I FELT OH, I FELT LIKE KING KONG.

THE BEAR JUST GOT SO SCARED OF THIS CRAZY THING WITH BIG EYES STARING AT HIM THAT HE TURNED AND HE RAN IN A DIRECT LINE AWAY FROM ME, AND I GOT THE VISION IN MY MIND STILL OF THE BEAR'S BIG REAR ENDS, AND THE PADS OF THE HIND FEET RUNNING YOU KNOW, AND I COULD SEE THE BOTTOM SOLES OF THE FEET, AND IT WAS IN A WET AREA, A MARSHY AREA, AND THE WATER WAS SPLASHING.

AFTER HE HAD GOTTEN ABOUT 300 YARDS FROM ME, HE WAS HIDDEN BEHIND SOME BRANCHES OF A TALL ALDER, AND I SAW HIM DO THIS.

HE STOOD UP ON HIS HIND LEGS REAL TALL AND HE WENT TO SEE ME.

BUT, BY THAT TIME I WAS NOT AFRAID OF HIM BECAUSE I KNEW THAT HE WAS MORE AFRAID OF ME.

I HAVE SAVED SOMETHING FOR YOU, UNTIL THE END HERE, AND WHAT I AM GOING TO SHOW YOU NEXT IS THE SETTING FOR TODAY'S DRAWING, AND I THINK THAT IT'S VERY SPECIAL, AND I AM GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE NOW.

THIS IS ONE BIG, ELABORATE, WILD ANIMAL SIGN.

THIS IS A BEAVER POND.

AND I AM ON THE BEAVER'S DAM.

YOU CAN HEAR THE WATER TRICKLING RIGHT OVER MY BOOT RIGHT NOW, BUT WHILE I AM HERE I WILL SHOW YOU, THIS HAS BEEN WORKED ON THIS SECTION.

IT MUST HAVE BEEN A WEAK SPOT THE BEAVERS HAD JUST COME TO IN THE PAST NIGHT.

IN IT, YOU CAN SEE THEY -- HERE'S A STONE.

THEY PILED ON ALL OF THIS GREEN STUFF, PLANTS.% THEY PULL THEM OUT.

AND THEY PULL THEM OUT OF THE BOTTOM OF THE POND.

HERE IS A CATTAIL.

BEAVERS ARE STRONG.

YOU SHOULD SEE THE WAY THEY CAN TURN A ROCK IN THE WATER AND THERE IS NO DOUBT.

LOOK AT THIS CHUTE THAT WAS COMING.

I WILL PUT IT BACK IN, MAYBE IT WILL GROW AGAIN, AND THIS -- THIS IS A NICE EXAMPLE.

THIS IS MUD AND ALL THESE, ALL OF THRILLLY PAD HERE AND THE STEMS, AND MUD AND ALL, AND I TRIED TO BUILD A BEAVER DAM O ONCE.

IT IS NOT EASY.

I THOUGHT IF I HAD MUCH TIME AS A BEAVER HAS ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT AND THE NEXT DAY AND THE NEXT NIGHT I WOULD BE ABLE TO DO IT BUT I HAD TO GET IN AND, YOU KNOW, DO MY HUMAN WORK.

SO MAYBE I CAN BILL ONE IF I TOOK THE TIME, BUT LOOK, IT IS SIMPLE.

THERE IS THE MUD THAT THEY PACK ON, ALL PACKED ON AND THE WATER WEEDS, AND WHATEVER ELSE IT CAN FIND TO SHORE UP THIS DAM.

MORE ROOTS.

BUT OUT THERE ONCE THEY ESTABLISHED THIS DAM, THEY BEGANNABEGAN-- THEY BEGAN BUILDS LODGE.

EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE TO WORK ON THAT, THAT LODGE IS YEARLY ONE THAT'S BEING USED BY GENERATION AFTER GENERATION OF BEAVERS, AND THAT LODGE AND THIS POND IS THE SETTING FOR OUR ANIMAL DRAWING TODAY.

BEFORE WE GO BACK TO MY PLACE TO DO THIS DRAWING, I WOULD LIKE TO GO OUT ON MY CANOE AND LOOK CLOSER AT THAT LODGE SO THAT I GET IT ALL UP HERE SO I KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE PICTURE.

SO I WILL SLOP MY WAY OFF THIS DAM AND GET IN THE CANOE, AND WE WILL GO OUT AND LOOK AT THAT LODGE.

YUCK.

MUDDY.

THERE, NICE AND CLOSE, NICE AND CLOSE.

IT HAS A LOT OF THIS GROWING ON EITHER SIDE OF IT.

AND THEN THE NEW STICKS ON THE TOP.

THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT LOOK FRESH.

THAT MAKES US KNOW THAT THERE IS BEAVERS LIVING IN IT, GO AROUND IT HERE.

FRESH STICKS ON THE TOP.

SOME FRESH, CHEWED STICKS AROUND IT.

THE BACK SIDE OF IT, LOOK AT THIS SIDE OF IT, MORE SLOPED.

THEY ARE REALLY BIG, THE LODGES.

THE WAY THAT THEY DO THAT, THEY KEEP PILING STICKS AND MUD AND VEGETATION AND MORE STICKS AND MORE MUD AND IT'S MOSTLY WOOD TOWARDS THE TOP TWO-THIRDS OF THE PILE, AND THAT PILE IS PILED ALL ALONG THE BOTTOM FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE POND UP.

AS THEY GET CLOSER TO THE SURFACE THEY ADD JUST WOOD.

THAT'S WHEN THEY PILE ON MORE WOOD THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

ONCE THEY FINISH PILING, ALL THAT WOOD AND STICKS AND ABOVE THE SURFACE, AND IT'S A SOLID MOUND NOW WEIGHING, I DON'T KNOW, A COUPLE TONS, MAYBE, THEY SWING DOWN, UNDERNEATH, UNDER THE WATER AND START TO CHEW, AND THEY CHEW AWAY TUNNELS.

LOOK, LOOK CLOSELY AT THOSE CHEWED LOGS ON THE TOP.

THOSE ARE GOING TO BE STARS IN OUR DRAWING.

THEY ARE GOING TO BE INTERESTING PIECES IN THE DRAWING.

AND WE WILL ADD -- YOU CAN SEE THAT RED STEMMED BUSH THERE.

THEY WERE CHEWING AWAY SOME OF THE STEMS ON THAT.

AND HERE, THAT'S HOW THEY MAKE THEIR ISLAND.

THAT'S HOW THEY MAKE AN ISLAND.

THEY JUST PILE IT, IT BECOMES A LAND FORM, ACTUALLY, FROM THEM PILING STUFF FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE POND UP ABOVE THE WATER LEVEL, AND THEN AFTER THEY CREATE THIS LAND FORM, THEY SWIM DOWN AND CLUE THEIR WAY INTO IT, AND THAT'S HOW THEY MAKE THAT, AND THAT'S HOW WE ARE GOING TO MAKE OURS IN THE DRAWING JUST BY PILING THINGS FROM THE WATER BASE, FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE POND UP THROUGH THE SURFACE.

WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MAKING ANY TUNNELS BECAUSE WE ARE NOT GOING TO SHOW THAT IN THE DRAWING.

ONE GOOD LOOK AT IT AS WE GO AROUND.

OKAY, HERE WE ARE.

I WANT TO SHOW YOU.

I DON'T WANT TO CLIMB OUT ON HERE BUT I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING.

HERE, SEE.

CAN YOU SEE THAT?

THAT'S A FRESHLY CHEWED ONE.

THIS IS HEAVY STILL.

IT'S SO FRESH.

THIS IS -- THIS LODGE IS -- THIS IS JUST LOADED WITH THIS TYPE OF WEIGHT.

EACH ONE OF THESE STICKS, THAT ARE CHEWED, AND ADDED, AND THEN ALL THE MUD, AND THEN THE OTHER VEGETATION, AND HERE, YOU CAN SEE HOW DRY, HOW DRY THESE ARE.

THIS IS -- CAN YOU SEE THAT?

THERE IS DRIED VEGETATION, THERE IS MORE STICKS, SOME FRESHER STICKS THERE.

AND THE SUN HAS DRIED THOSE OUT.

SEE, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR DRAWING LOOKS LIKE THE LODGE IN OUR DRAWING LOOKS LIKE A BEAVER MADE IT, NOT LIKE WE DID.

THAT'S ENOUGH.

I THINK THAT -- LOOK AT THIS, THIS IS STILL FRESH AND HAS ITS -- HAS ITS -- WE COULD ADD A FEW OF THESE TO THE DRAWING WITH THE LEAVES STILL ON THEM.

SEE THAT?

YOU CAN'T SPEND MUCH TIME AROUND THE BEAVER'S LODGE IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF GETTING WET AND A LITTLE MUD ON YOU, AND I HAVE GOT PLENTY OF MUD ON ME AND A LOT OF WET ON ME TODAY.

OKAY.

LET'S GO BACK AND MAKE A PICTURE OUT OF ALL OF THIS.

WHAT I WANT TO START WITH IS THE TREE THAT WE WERE AT.

LET'S SEE.

WE WILL PUT THAT IN THE FOREGROUND.

I AM GOING TO DO A COMPOSITE DRAWING, WHICH MEANS IT'S GOING TO BE A SCENE THAT YOU WOULD NOT NORMALLY SEE BECAUSE OF THE VARIOUS ANIMALS OUT IN IT, BUT IT'S THE TYPE OF SCENE THAT YOU WOULD DRAW IN ORDER TO ILLUSTRATE ALL THE VARIOUS ANIMALS THAT CAN LIVE IN A PARTICULAR AREA.

SO I WILL START WITH THAT GREAT TREE THAT WE FIRST CAME UPON.

JUST NOT THE EXACT TREE, BUT, AND I REMEMBER THAT THERE WAS THAT OLD BEAVER CHEW DOWN IN HERE.

I AM GOING TO DRAW THIS AS THOUGH MY PENCIL WAS THE TEETH OF THE BEAVER, AND REMEMBER I SAID THAT IN ORDER FOR A BEAVER TO CHEW ON A TREE LIKE THAT HE WOULD NORMALLY TURN HIS HEAD SIDEWAYS.

MAYBE GOING UP IN HERE YOU CAN HE MIGHT COME DOWN, STRAIGHT DOWN, BUT MOST OF HIS CHEW MARKS WOULD BE SIDEWAYS, AND THIS IS AN OLD CHEWED AREA OF A TREE, SO I AM NOT GOING TO GET TOO CRAZY WITH THE SHARPNESS ON THESE TEETH ENGRAVINGS HERE.

BUT WE WANT TO SHOW THE TREE HAHASBEEN GNAWED ON.

THIS IS GOING TO SUGGEST THAT WE'RE STANDING UP ON A LUMP OF LAND HERE.

WE ARE RIGHT REFLECTION TO THE .

HERE'S THE ANIMAL SIGNS THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT.

YOU ARE DIGGING INTO A TREE THE WAY A WOODPECKER WOULD YOU HAVE TO GO WITH THE GRAPE GRAIN SO T ADD A BIT OF GRAIN TO THE DEAD WOOD BECAUSE THE WOOD STARTS TO GET MORE -- HAVE MORE TEXTURE TO IT AS IT HAS THE GRAINY LOOK AS IT DIES, AND THEN YOU ADD THE HOLE INTO THE GRAINING LIKE HERE.

SEE THIS?

SEE THAT?

WHERE THE HOLE IS, ACTUALLY, INCORPORATED INTO THE GRAIN OF THE WOOD.

I AM GOING TO GO IN THERE JUST A BIT DARK TO SET UP AN INSIDE WHERE I CAN PUT IN SOME OF THOSE CARPENTER ANT TUNNELS UP IN THERE.

I WANT TO BE ABLE TO RECEDE THAT INTO THE WOOD INSIDE TO SHOW WHAT THE WOODPECKER WAS AFTER WHEN HE WAS IN THERE.

OF COURSE, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE IT DARKER, WHERE THERE IS NO LIGHT GETTING, AND EACH HOLE, THAT YOU DRAW, WHETHER IT'S IN THE GROUND OR IN THE WOOD, YOU DRAW IT THE WAY THAT THE ANIMAL WOULD CREATE IT.

YOU JUST KEEP GNAWING AWAY WITH YOUR PENCIL OR CHIPPING AWAY IN THIS CASE.

UNTIL YOU FINALLY MAKE THE HOLE DEEP ENOUGH TO YOUR LIKING.

, AND I WILL PUT ONE MORE HOLE IN THE TREE DOWN HERE, AND THIS HOLE, LET ME DO THIS VERY LIGHTLY, IN FACT, THIS HOLE, I WANT TO MAKE SMALLER THAN THAT.

IF I RECALL, THE HOLE THAT WE SAW THAT HAD THE NEST IN IT WAS ONE OF THE SMALLER HOLES, AND I AM WILLING TO BET THAT WHEN A MOUSE MAKES ITS NEST IN A HOLE, IT WOULD PREFER A SMALLER OPENING THAN A LARGE OPENING BECAUSE ONCE THE YOUNG ARE IN THERE, IT DOES NOT WANT TO BE ABLE TO CREATE A HOLE THAT TOO MANY THINGS CAN CRAWL THROUGH.

INSTEAD OF US KNOWING IT WAS IN THERE, WE ARE GOING TO ADD THE MOUSE.

SO I WILL HAVE THE MOUSE PEEKING OUT AT US HERE.

THIS IS KIND OF LIKE SITTING OUT AND LOOKING TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON OUT THERE.

THAT MOUSE HAS TOO LONG OF A NOSE.

THE MOUSE, THE MOUSE NOSE WOULD BE SHORTER THAN A RAT NOSE WOULD BE A LITTLE LONGER.

WE DON'T WANT TO LOOK LIKE A RAT BUT LIKE A MOUSE.

THAT LOOKS LIKE A MOUSE PEEKING OUT OF THAT HOLE.

LET ME FINISH THE HOLE AROUND HIM.

NOW, NOW THAT I HAVE THAT TREE OUT OF MY MIND AND ONTO THE PAPER, I WANT TO ESTABLISH THAT BEAVER POND ON OUR PAGE.

LET'S SAY THAT THE WATERLINE WOULD BE SOMEWHERE, ONE-THIRD DOWN FROM THE PAGE, TO GIVE US PLENTY OF WATER TO WORK ON FOR LATER.

THIS WILL BE THE, THE WATERLINE OF THE POND, THE BACKGROUND WATERLINE, AND WE WILL PUT OUR LODGE UP HERE, WE WILL PUT THE LODGE UP HERE.

IT WILL BE PACKED IN THE POND.

I AM GOING TO ESTABLISH THIS RIGHT NOW, AND I DON'T WANT TO, ACTUALLY, TO DETAIL ANYTHING, BUT WE HAVE TO KNOW WHERE THINGS ARE GOING TO GO.

IN FACT, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO SHOW THE BASE OF THIS LODGE ON THIS SIDE OF THE TREE, SO THAT WE CAN ESTABLISH THAT THIS TREE IS IN THE FOREGROUND, AND THAT LODGE IS BACK THERE, AND THIS IS WATER.

WE WA-- WE WANT THAT TO BE WATER THERE SO WE WILL COME ACROSS AND THAT'S WHERE WE WILL PUT THE LODGE LIKE THIS IN THE WATER.

LATER ORN WE WILL BUILD IT JUST THE WAY THAT THE BEAVER WOULD.

FIRST I WANT TO ADD IN A LITTLE BACKGROUND HERE TO GET US SOME BACKGROUND HILLS.

AND MOUNTAINS.

EVERYTHING THAT I DRAW SEEMS TO HAVE MOUNTAINS IN THE BACKGROUND BECAUSE TAT'S WHERE I LIVE.

WELL PUT TALL GRASSES ACROSS THE BACK OF THE POND.

JUST START THEM.

START SUGGESTING THEM.

WE WILL MAKE THE GRASSES LOOK LIKE THEY ARE IN THE WATER BY BRINGING THEM DOWN, AND ABOUT HALFWAY BETWEEN THE BACK LINE OF THE POND AND WHEN.

AND YOU KNOW WHAT I AM GOING TO DO?

I AM GOING TO PUT -- WHILE I AM AT IT I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT THE BEAR LOOKED LIKE TO ME.

IT IS STANDING IN THE WATER.

JUST WALKING IN THE WATER LIKE THIS, WITH THE BIG PAW, STEPPING IN THE WATER.

THE REST OF THEM I COULDN'T SEE BECAUSE HE WAS SO BLACK, THAT I DIDN'T SEE MUCH ELSE, EXCEPT HIS OVERALL SHAPE AND HIS MUZZLE.

THE MUZZLE WAS LIGHT.

THE REST OF HIM WAS JUST SOLID BLACK, AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I SAW, SO YOU KNOW, NOBODY EXPECTS YOU TO DRAW WHAT YOU DON'T SEE.

WHEN I SEE ANIMAL AND I WANT TO CAPTURE HIM ON PAPER OR THE ANIMAL IN A SKETCH, I DRAW WHAT I SEE.

ONE DAY I WAS SKETCHING ALONG THE SIDE OF A POND AND I SAW A BEAUTIFUL LANDING OF A LOON OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WATER, AND I GOT MY BINOCULARS, AND I DREW IT WHILE I WAS LOOKING THROUGH THE BINOCULARS BUT THROUGH THE BBINOCULARS I COULDN'T SEE ANY NOSTRILS OR DETAIL ON THE EYE.

ALL I SAW WAS THE BLACKHEAD.

THE LONG, BLACK BILL, AND SOME WHITE MARKINGS ON ITS BACK, AND THE OVERALL SHAPE.

THEY WILL BE WALKING IN THIS WATER WHEN IT NOTICED ME.

THE TALL GRASSES WERE ALL AROUND IT, AND THAT'S WHAT MADE ME REALIZE HOW BIG IT WAS BECAUSE LATER, I WALKED BACK.

TO THAT SPOT.

I STOOD NEXT TO THE GRASSES, AND I COULD SEE HOW DEEP THAT I WENT INTO THE WATER.

I AM GOING TO -- THE WATER IN THE BEAVER POND IS VERY STILL SO I WILL GIVE OUR BEAR A REALLY NICE REFLECTION UNDERNEATH HERE.

THIS IS A BEAVER POND THAT WE ARE CREATING SO I MIGHT AS WELL GET THIS LODGE STARTED, BEFORE WE ADD ANY OTHER ANIMALS.

REMEMBER, WHEN YOU ARE DRAWING ANYTHING MADE BY ANIMAL, I MEAN, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THESE BEING ANIMAL SIGNS, BUT RIGHT NOW, WE ARE GOING TO DRAW SOMETHING ACTUALLY CONSTRUCTED BY ANIMAL.

YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN YOU DRAW IT, IT LOOKS LIKE THAT ANIMAL MADE IT.

YOU CANNOT -- YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS MADE BY THE ANIMAL THAT WOULD HAVE NATURALLY MADE IT, SO JUST LIKE A BEAVER WOULD, WE ARE GOING TO START PILING OUR STICKS.

THE TOP PART OF THE LODGE IS MOSTLY WOOD, BUT WE'RE GOING DO START PILING WOOD, AND AT THE END OF EACH PIECE, THIS IS PART OF DRAWING OUR ANIMALS TODAY.

WE ARE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT IT LOOKS LIKE THIS WAS GNAWED BUT A BEAVER, FOR THE CHOPPED BY AN AXE OR SAWED BY A MAN, WITH A CROSS SAW, JUST NIBBLED AND GNAWED LOOSE BY A BEAVER.

OF COURSE, WE DON'T WANT TO MAKE IT ALL LOOK LIKE THE SAME SIZE PIECES OF WOOD, EITHER BECAUSE THE BEAVER WILL TAKE ANYTHING IT CAN GET ITS TEETH ON, AND WE HAVE GOT A VERY, TO VARIOUS OUR SIZES SO THIS IS PART WHAT, PART OF WHAT I WAS SAYING ABOUT THINKING LIKE THE ANIMALS THAT YOU ARE DEPICTING IN THEIR WORLD, PUTTING YOURSELF IN THEIR WORLD AND IN THEIR LIVES.

BACK TO THE ANIMALS.

EVERY ANIMAL HAS A BASIC SHAPE, IN SOME OF THEM, THE ANIMALS, YOU DON'T SEE THE SHAPE THAT WELL, BUT IN BIRDS IT'S PREDOMINANT, AND IN FACT, THAT'S ONE OF THE WAYS TO -- BEGIN WITH THEIR SHAPE.

PARDON ME, I WILL PUT A DUCK RIGHT HERE IN THE BEAVER POND, IN THE FOREGROUND, AND NOT EQUAL TO WHERE THE LODGE IS BUT UP AWAY FROM THAT BEAR FOR SURE, AND I WILL PUT THIS DUCK RIGHT ABOUT HERE IN THE POND, AND I AM GOING TO -- THE DUCK IS SWIMMING.

THAT'S WHAT THIS IS HERE.

WHEN I DRAW -- WELL, DUCKS ARE PERFECT EXAMPLES OF THIS BASIC SHAPE OF BIRDS.

I AM GOING TO DRAW WHAT I CAN RECALL AS THE BASIC SHAPE OF A DUCK IN THE WATER.

AND THIS WILL BE A MALLARD.

I AM GOING TO OUTLINE THE WHOLE BASIC SHAPE.

>> EVERY ANIMAL HAS THE BASIC SHAPE BUT WHENEVER ANIMAL MOVES, IT CHANGES ITS SHAPE, AND SOMETIMES, DRASTICALLY, SO WE ARE GOING TO PUT ANOTHER MALLARD COMING IN FOR A LANDING HERE, AND WE ARE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH AN POLITICAL IN THE AIR.

A LOT OF THE BODY WEIGHT WILL BE PULLED DOWN, SO I WILL SHOW YOU HOW THAT, BASIC SHAPE, CHANGES.

HERE'S THE NECK OF THE MALLARD COMING IN.

AND THE BODY, INSTEAD OF BEING SHAPED MORE LIKE A FOOTBALL, IS GOING TO HAVE MUCH MORE CONTOUR TO IT WHERE IT'S WEIGHT IS HANGING DOWN AND CONCENTRATING IN THE BOTTOM PART OF THE BODY.

HERE'S THE SHAPE OF THIS DUCK COMING IN.

IT WILL BE COMING IN WITH ITS FEET READY TO -- LIKE THIS, READY TO START SWIMMING, AS SOON AS THEY HIT.

WE WILL BE SEEING THE UNDERPART OF THIS TAIL.

>> LIKE THAT.

OF COURSE THE WING WOULDN'T BE FOLDED ON THE BACK BUT WIDE OPEN.

LIKE THAT, AND THE OTHER WING.

THE OTHER SIDE.

LIKE THAT.

YOU CAN SEE HOW THE BASIC SHAPE OF THAT -- IT'S THE SAME BASIC SHAPE AS THE DUCK IN THE WATER.

IT'S RECOGNIZABLE TO YOU IMMEDIATELY, AND LET ME FIX THIS HEAD, IT'S RECOGNIZABLE TO YOU IMMEDIATELY THAT THAT'S A DUCK, AND PROBABLY THE SAME TYPE OF DUCK THAT'S IN THE WATER, BUT THE SHAPE CHANGED DRASTICALLY BY THE MOVEMENT IT IS MAKING.

I WANT THAT LOOKING DOWN MORE.

IT IS COMING IN THERE TO THE MATE THERE.

>> ALL RIGHT, BIRDS, I BEGIN WITH THEIR B BANK SHAPE.

ANOTHER ANIMAL I DRAW, BEGINNING WITH THE BASIC SHAPE ARE FISH.

I DRAW ALL FISH BEGINNING WITH THE BASIC SHAPE, SO I WILL HAVE, IN THIS POND, I AM GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER FISH COMING TO THE SURFACE, BUT THIS ONE I WILL HAVE LEAPING RIGHT OUT SO YOU CAN SEE THE WHOLE SHAPE OF IT.

AND THIS IS HOW YOU WOULD DRAW ANY FISH.

IN THE CASE OF A TROUT, IT WOULD BE THE SHAPE OF A TROUT IS CIGAR-LIKE SO YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE -- THIS IS THE BANK SHAPE OF A TROUT, RIGHT ABOUT LIKE THAT.

AM I RIGHT?

AFTER YOU DRAW THE BASIC SHAPE, YOU WOULD HAVE THE FINS AND THE TAIL.

THE FIN SHAPE AND THEIR PLACEMENT ON THE BODY IS THE TRICK, THE SECRET TO DRAWING FISH.

WE WOULD HAVE ONE DORSAL FIN HERE AND ONE FIN BACK HERE, AND, PECTORAL FIN UP HERE.

THE VENTRAL FINS.

AND ONE, THERE WILL BE ANOTHER ONE ON THE OTHER SIDE, BUT WE WON'T SEE THAT IN THIS AND THE TAIL.

I THINK THAT I AM GOING TO FLATTEN THE FISH OUT, SO YOU CAN SEE THE BODY BETTER.

THE TAIL AND THE TROUT WOULD BE SHAPED LIKE THIS.

SOME CALL THEM SQUARE BUT I HAVE YET TO CATCH A TROUT THAT HAD A PERFECTLY SQUARE TAIL OR SHAPE LIKE THIS.

THERE.

THAT'S THE SECRET TO DRAWING THE FISH.

BEFORE I FINISH THAT TROUT, I WILL SHOW YOU, SAY YOU WERE DRAWING A SUN FISH, IT'S HIGHLY UNLIKELY A SUN FISH WOULD BE IN THE SAME POND WITH THE TROUT BUT I AM GOING TO SHOW YOU.

THIS IS WHAT YOU WOULD DRAW, AN OVAL SHAPED BODY, AND ADD FINS, WHICH LOOK LIKE THIS, AND THE TAIL, AND THE MOUTH.

AND THE EYES.

SEE, AND THE GIL.

IF YOU WERE DRAWING A PICKEREL, YOU WOULD DRAW A LONG SHAPE LIKE THIS, AND FOR THE BODY, AND YOU WOULD PUT THE FINS THE WAY THAT THEY ARE, TWO LIKE THIS, AND ONE FOR THE TAIL.

AND BIG TAIL.

, VENTRAL FINS, EYE, AND THE MOUTH PARTS.

SAME WAY.

WITH THE GILLS.

SEE.

THAT'S HOW YOU DRAW A FISH.

I AM GOING TO TAKE THESE OUT BECAUSE I DON'T WANT THEM IN MY BEAVER POND.

KIND OF A TROUT SNOB.

I GUESS WE OUGHT TO GO TO REPTILES FOR A WHILE.

FIRST I WANT TO PUT A PLACE IN MY PICTURE FOR THE REPTILES.

LET ME START WITH AN ESTABLISHING A LITTLE ISLAND HERE.

I WANT THE ISLAND IN THE MIDDLE, IN THE WATER OF THE POND, BUT NEXT TO THAT I WILL PUT THIS BEAVER LOG THAT, FOR SOME REASON, ISN'T OVER IN THE LODGE.

THAT HAPPENS.

THEY GET -- IT FALLS IN, THEY DON'T GET -- THEY CANNOT GET IT OVER THERE UNLESS THEY CLUE IT UP, AND SOMETIMES THEY GET TO DOING OTHER THINGS, BUT I WANT TO HAVE THIS LOG STICKING OUT OF THE WATER BECAUSE THAT'S GOING TO BE OUR TURTLE LOG.

PUT SOME BEAVER CHEWS ON THERE.

BOY, THEY ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS WHEN I DO THESE SIDE WARD CHEWS.

THERE.

THAT LOOKS LIKE A BEAVER CHEWED THAT UP.

NOW, LET ME DRAW, WE ARE GOING TO DO TURTLES FOR THE REPTILES BECAUSE ESSENTIALLY, THE TURTLES ARE LIKE, ARE SIMILAR TO LIZARDS BUT WITH A SHELL.

IF YOU CAN DRAW A TURTLE, YOU CAN THEN FIGURE OUT HOW TO DRAW A LIZARD ON OUR OWN, SO I WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO DRAW A TURTLE, WHEN YOU DRAW A TURTLE, WHEN I DRAW A TURTLE, OF COURSE, I HAVE TO -- FIRST I THINK OF THE TYPE, BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL SHAPED DIFFERENTLY, BUT NO MATTER WHAT TYPE OF TURTLE I AM DRAWING, I FIRST SKETCH IT IN, AS THOUGH IT DOES NOT HAVE A SHELL.

IT'S BODY WOULD BE LIKE THIS.

LIKE THAT.

I HAVE NEVER TAKEN A TURTLE APART BUT I HAVE FOUND THEM ON THE HIGHWAY, AND PULLED THEM OUT OF THE SHELL, AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT'S WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE.

IT'S NOT PRETTY.

IT'S NOT AS PRETTY AS THIS BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE.

AND WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU DRAW A TURTLE, YOU HAVE TO -- WHEN YOU PUT THE SHELL ON THE TURTLE YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT LOOK BIG ENOUGH FOR THE TURTLE TO HIDE IN OR WHY WOULD IT CARRY A SHELL SANDER WITH-- AROUNDWITH HIM IF HE COUS BODY INTO IT.

SO LET'S MAKE THE SHELL A SUBSTANTIAL THING THAT THE TURTLE COULD HIDE IN IF IT WANTED TO.

LIKE THAT, AND I WILL PUT THAT LEG COMING OUT LIKE THIS.

HE'S KIND OF LAZILY SITTING ON THIS, LAYING ON THIS LOG HERE.

AFTER YOU GO THAT SHELL PLACED OVER THE TURTLE SO THAT THE WHOLE BODY SEEMS TO HAVE ROOM IN THERE, YOU CAN SUGGEST THAT THE BODY IS INSIDE THE SHELL BY SHADING THESE PARTS OF THE APPENDAGES THAT COME OUT OF THE SHELL LIKE HERE.

GOES UNDER THE SHELL AND INSIDE THE SHELL, THE TAIL SHADED UP INSIDE THE SHELL.

IT WOULD BE ROUNDER IN THE FRONT.

AND YOU MIGHT WANT TO PUT IN THE TURTLE FACE.

AND THAT TURTLEY NECK, AND.

THE PATTERNS ON THE BACK OF THE SHELL ARE ALL VERY MUCH THE SAME.

THEY ARE NOT POLKA DOTS.

THEY ARE NOT CHECKERS.

THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE -- REMEMBER THE CARTOON, ARCHY LIKE HIS SIDEBURNS.

THEY LOOK LIKE THIS.

THIS IS THE PATTERN ON THE BACK OF THE TURTLE SHELL.

SEE.

AND FROM THAT, YOU COME DOWN.

ALL ANGLES.

AND THEN THERE IS THE OUTER PATTERN THAT GOES ALL THE WAY AROUND THE SHELL.

AND ONCE YOU ESTABLISH THIS, THEN YOU CAN ADD POKE-A-DOTS OR DOTS OR RIPPLES OR LINES OR WHATEVER ELSE IS ON THE TURTLE.

EVEN IF YOU ARE DRAWING A SNAPPING TURTLE, WHICH FOR ALL THE PARENT LOOKS, IT DOES NOT HAVE ANY MARKINGS OR PATTERN ON THE BACK OF THE SHELL.

YOU WOULD ESTABLISH THAT PATTERN ANYWAY BECAUSE UNDERNEATH ALL THAT WRINKLES AND REPTILIAN PREHISTORIC LOOK TO IT, THERE IS A PATTERN UNDER THE SHELL.

YEAH.

SO THERE WE COME AROUND.

NOW, WE HAVE COVERED BIRDS, FISH, REPTILES, AND BEFORE WE GO TO THE STAR OF OUR PICTURES, UNDER WATER, DOWN HERE ON THIS LOG, I WANT TO DRAW A CRAY FISH, AND NOW, INSECTS, SPIDERS, AND CRUSTACEANS, OF WHICH THE FAMILY, WHICH CRAY FISH BELONG, TO WHICH CRAY FISH BELONG, ARE ALL ARTHROPODS, AND ARTHROPODS MEANS JOINT FOOT, AND THAT IS THE KEY TO DRAWING THOSE ANIMALS.

SO IF I TEACH YOU HOW TO DRAW THIS CRAY FISH, REMEMBER IT'S THE WAY THAT YOU WOULD DRAW ANY ARTHROPOD, ANY INSECT, ANY SPIDER AND ANY CRUSTACEAN, AND THE WAY YOU DRAW THEM IS TO BEGIN AGAIN WITH A BANK BODY BAY SHAPE -- LIKE THAT.

ADD THE BODY SEGMENTS.

BREAK IT UP INTO THE SEGMENTS.

IN THIS CASE, OF A CRAY FISH, IT LOOKS LIKE THIS.

DOWN HERE.

TAIL.

AND THEN AFTER YOU GO THAT BODY BUILT, YOU ADD THE JOINT FOOT ASPECT, AND THAT'S THE SECRET.

THAT'S WHAT I AM SAYING, YOU JUST DRAW THESE -- EACH LEG IN THE JOINTS THAT THOSE LEGS ARE MADE.

PUT ONE THERE.

ONE SEGMENT AT A TIME.

YOU GET LEGS THAT GET SMALLER AS THEY GO TO THE BACK ON A CRAY FISH OR A LOBSTER AND A CRAB.

ONE SEGMENT AT A TIME.

AND THE SAME THING TO THE OTHER SIDE.

NOW, I AM WORKING ON THE STAR OF OUR PICTURE.

THE BEAVER THAT DID NOT COME OUT FOR US TODAY WHILE WE WERE OUT THERE.

AND A BEAVER, MORE THAN A MAMMAL FOR US, TODAY, A BEAVER IS A PHO-BEARER.

THEY GO THIS TINY BEADDY EYE LOOKING AT US WONDERING WHAT IN THE WORLD -- WHAT IS THAT NOISE AND WHAT DID I HEAR?

THAT PENCIL SCRAPING.

THERE.

AND THEY HAVE TO LOOK FURRY OR ELSE THEY DON'T LOOK RIGHT IN YOUR PICTURE.

AND WHAT MAKES A FUR BEARER A FUR BEARER IS THE FACT THAT IT CARRIES TWO COATS OF HAIR.

THE BOTTOM COAT IS A THICK, WOOLY, INSULATING COAT, AND I AM GOING TO ESTABLISH SOME SHADING HERE, AND SOME AREAS FOR SHA SHADING, AND OVER THE THICK, INSULATING, WOOLY COAT, WHICH KEEPS OUT THE, YOU KNOW, THE -- THE ANIMAL WARM AND DRY, IS ANOTHER COAT OF LONGER GUARD HAIRS, AND THOSE HAIRS ARE SILKIER, AND THEY ARE MORE SEPARATED AND NOT ALL TANGLED TOGETHER, AND THAT, THAT COAT PROTECTS THE ANIMAL FROM WIND AND WATER.

FIRST THING WE HAVE TO DO IS PUT IN A SHADED AREA FOR THAT THICK, WOOLY, UNDERCOATING.

IT IS A TRICK TO MAKING ANIMAL LOOK FURRY.

YOU NEED TO LET YOURSELF SHADE THE WHOLE ANIMAL FOR ITS THICK, INSULATING UNDERCOAT.

THERE, IT LOOKS GOOD.

BOY.

THEN AFTER YOU GET THE UNDERCOAT SHADED IN A NICE, GRAY, WOOLY LOOK, LET'S REESTABLISH THESE BODY PARTS.

THAT'S WHEN YOU ADD THE GUARD HAIRS AND THAT'S LONGER HAIR ON THE OUTSIDE.

DRY HAIR.

STANDS AND SEPARATES LIKE THIS.

WET HAIR WILL MAKE IT LOOK LIKE THIS THING JUST CAME OUT OF THE WATER, OF COURSE, IT DID.

CLINGS.

SO DOWN HERE WE'RE GOING TO PUT THIS HAIR DOWN AROUND THE BOTTOM PART OF THE BODY THAT HASN'T DRIED YET BECAUSE THE BEAVER DRIP DRIES, AND WE ARE GOING TO PUT THAT TOGETHER IN A CLINGING MAT.

SEE, JUST LIKE IT WOULD LOOK IF IT WAS WET.

BUT UP HERE, WE ARE GOING TO MAKE SURE IT LOOKS DRY.

YOU DRAW HAIR BY STARTING ON THE BODY AND COMING OFF.

YOU DON'T PUT THE HAIR INTO THE BODY LIKE THIS, YOU START ON THE BODY AND COME OFF.

THAT GIVES YOUR HAIR A KIND OF A TAPERED LOOK, THE WAY HAIR REALLY HAS.

KEEP DOING THIS ALL OVER THE WHOLE BODY.

I WILL DO IT UP AROUND THE HEAD SO YOU CAN SEE IT.

YOU CAN DO IT EVERYWHERE.

THAT'S T THE STAR OF THE SHOW.

I THINK THAT'S AS MUCH AS I WANT TO GO ON HIM.

WAIT A MINUTE, WHAT AM I DOING, I FORGOT SUCH A BULKY ANIMAL WOULD CAST A SHADOW.

THERE AND THAT'S OUR BEAVER.

HERE.

THAT JUST ABOUT DOES IT.

YOU KNOW, THIS HAS BEEN A LOT OF FUN.

IN THE PAST FOUR WEEKS, WE'VE LOOKED AT AND WE HAVE DRAWN ALL OF THE WORLDLY THINGS, WATER, LAND, PLANTS, AND TODAY ANIMALS.

AND I HOPE I DRILLED IT INTO YOUR HEAD THAT EVERYTHING YOU SEE CAN BE DRAWN, AS LONG AS YOU UNDERSTAND IT WELL ENOUGH.

FIND OUT WHAT ANIMALS AND PLANTS LIVE AROUND YOU.

SEE HOW MANY OF THEM YOU CAN DRAW.

SEE HOW MANY OF THEM YOU CAN SEE, AND WHENEVER YOU CAN, COME BACK AND TRY TO RECALL ALL OF THE THINGS THAT YOU JUST SAW OUTDOORS AND DRAW FROM NATURE.

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>> JIM ARNOSKY IS THE AUTHOR OF "DRAWING FROM NATURE."

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