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Alright folks. In this clip we're going to draw a beetle and we're going to come right
down here in this corner and do that. So what we'll do is we'll start by drawing sort of
the outline of his head, and what I'm going to do actually is I'm going to kind of give
this guy the body of a rhinoceros because in my mind the beetles are kind of the rhinos
of the little bug community. We'll give him a big old back obviously. Come in here and
go like that, and then we'll give him sort of an underbelly here and we'll kind of make
his big beetle legs coming out the side. We will actually give this guy six legs. We'll
just kind of go like this and kind of draw them along the edges there and I'm just trying
to draw his little foot appendages there at the bottom. Kind of almost sort of like hooves.
They're going to kind of create some parallels between the insect world and in this case
the rhino world. Half rhino and half armadillo is what this guy is going to kind of end up
looking like. So we draw the shells there in the back of his beetle body and that will
pretty much do it as far as the body is concerned. We can draw some antennas that also look like
rhino antennas up here. Give them little thingies on top just to make sure that we know that
they are antennas and not horns. We'll come right in here and draw some little nostrils
on him, and you know this guy is pretty much harmless I would say, but none the less we'll
come in here and give him a sort of furrowed brow and yeah, I mean, the best thing to do
is to give like all your characters personality. And what we're doing here is we're giving
this guy personality. He is definitely got personality. And this would be our cartoon
beetle. There you go.