- Hey, I'm Anthony,
I'm a creative pro at Apple Carnegie Library
and this is Creative Projects.
Today we'll be drawing ourselves as Peanuts characters
in Pages.
Now I'm really excited about this because I've been a fan
of Peanuts for a long time.
We'll be talking with Mark and Krista from The Snoopy Show
on Apple TV+ to break down the process
into these four easy steps.
We'll start with basic shapes.
Then we'll create emotions with simple lines,
we'll add our signature look,
and then we'll get extra with colors.
Something I've always wondered about
is why the Peanuts characters look the way they do.
To find out, I'll be talking to Mark Evestaff
who is the show runner of The Snoopy Show.
Let's go ahead and give him a call.
- Hey Anthony, how's it going?
- Hey Mark, how you doing?
- Pretty good.
- [Anthony] Can you tell us a little bit more
about The Snoopy Show?
- [Mark] The Snoopy Show follows our world famous beagle
as he goes on adventures through the neighborhood
and through his imagination.
From a storytelling perspective,
you have these little kids with these big problems
and that also translates in the design
where they have these huge heads and these tiny shoulders
and it's almost like they're carrying
the weight of the world around with them.
The design has such a timeless quality to it.
Well, why don't we bring Krista Porter in,
she's gonna be able to show us how to go
from this to this.
(whistling tune)
- Now I'm really excited to connect with Krista because
as a storybook artist, essentially her job is to
draw the blueprint for the animators.
- Hey Krista, how are you?
Nice to meet you.
- Hi, how's it going?
I love drawing these characters.
I think the fact that we're gonna be able to
draw ourselves in this style is gonna be really exciting.
I'm gonna roll up my sleeves.
- Now, I use Pages all the time for documents,
but you know, it's actually a great drawing app as well.
For today, you'll need an iPad with the Pages app installed
and an Apple pencil.
Don't have either? Well, that's no big deal.
As long as you have Pages installed on your iPhone,
you can use that instead,
just use your finger to draw.
Make sure you check the description for links
to the Apple support articles on how to draw in Pages.
All right, well, let's go ahead and get started.
I got my iPad here and I'm ready to go.
- The very first thing I like to start off with
is basic shapes.
It's from those basic shapes that we can then later on
add some details
and start to really bring everything to life.
- And the cool thing about this is we can both collaborate
on the same document at the same time, right here in pages.
So no matter where you are, you can see my drawings,
no matter where I am, I can see your drawings.
Does that sound fun to do?
- That sounds amazing. I'm super excited.
And I think what I'm gonna use for this drawing today
is I'm gonna use a crayon tool
'cause I do like how the texture kind of reminds me
of Schulz's work in the strips.
All right, so first of all, I'm just gonna start off with
drawing the top of my head right here.
Do another curve right underneath it.
And your ear shape is gonna be very similar
to that of about half an oval, kind of a C,
if you wanna think of it that way.
- [Anthony] Okay.
- Now for the cheek portion of the face,
you can either close it all the way down,
so maybe something like this,
but there's another style in Peanuts,
bring in this line a little bit,
kind of like an eyebrow ridge,
bring it around for the cheek.
Now, when we think of the body,
they're very triangular shaped, eh?
And because you know that shape,
you can go back and put it into your drawing.
So in the middle of the body here, let's go ahead
and draw a line coming straight down, just like that.
- Almost looks like a Popsicle.
- A little.
- Now I'm hungry.
- Now let's go ahead and draw our feet.
So from that middle line, let's just bring this really long
kind of like squashed C shape.
See, I really like the way
that you're drawing the feet, Anthony
'cause it reminds me of baguettes
which I happen to love.
- So now my grocery list includes popsicles and baguettes.
Let's see where else this goes.
- [Krista] I'm getting kinda hungry.
So for the hand here, in the Peanuts universe,
it's very common to see the characters' fingers
drawn all kind of different sizes,
so you don't really need to sit down
and worry about getting them all perfect.
It's just whatever you want them to be.
- So if you need more character inspiration,
make sure you check out our drawing references,
linked in the description.
In it you'll find more shapes
and expressions, plus some extras just for fun.
So can you tell us what makes the expressions
of Peanuts characters so unique and interesting?
- Absolutely. I think what it is about their expressions
is just how simple they are,
where if we kind of, like, look back
to only drawing what's necessary, we don't need to focus
on every detail in the face,
so what we're gonna do,
we're just gonna start off with the eyes and the nose.
So go ahead and just draw a nice little dot shape
for your eye.
Right beside that, we're gonna draw a small little C shape,
very similar to the ear but just a little bit smaller.
Perfect. Now, Anthony, when it comes to expressions
'cause we really want these characters to be us.
What is a mood or expression that you feel
best defines who you are?
- So I smile 99% of the time.
That other 1% is probably when I'm asleep.
Now, I don't know what my expression looks like
when I'm sleeping, but I'm pretty sure it's a smile
'cause my dreams are kinda cool and a little crazy.
- I'm also very smiley and I do laugh a lot.
So I think we can draw very similar expressions.
Now we have to think
that we're only really drawing what's necessary
so for your eyebrows,
I want you to draw them a little bit higher up
than they would normally sit.
Now let's go ahead and give ourselves a nice big smile.
We can actually start by drawing a nice little dot
on one side, draw another dot on the other side
and now go ahead and connect those lines with a nice curve.
Ah! Oh, okay, don't erase it.
Don't erase it.
I love it! So Anthony, I'm trying to think,
if you were to describe yourself visually,
what are some key points that you would kind of point out?
- It would probably be my green hoodie.
That's what I wear most of the time
and then also my hair for sure.
- I like that you're showing that the back of the hood
is actually draping over the shoulder.
I think that's a really nice touch.
Now one last thing I think we can add
before we get into the fun of coloring,
we just need to draw our hair.
- I think I'm gonna use some big circle shapes
to represent my hair.
We'll see how that looks.
- I think using kind of the reference from Schulz himself,
I'm gonna borrow the bangs
that he's used for Peppermint Patty
and then I actually have to erase a bit more of my head
at the top here 'cause I have a hat.
- Nice. Now there's so many different styles of shoes
and ways to customize shoes.
I think I like how on the Peanuts characters
they have little scribbles
on their laces that almost look like spaghetti
so I'm gonna copy that and use that.
So if we tap on the little rainbow icon
with all the colors in there,
that's gonna give us a lot more options
to choose from for color.
So I'm gonna look for a green that matches my hoodie.
The thing I really like about the fill tool
is being able to just tap on a closed shape,
to fill it in with color.
I can also draw around that shape
and the color will fill in automatically.
- I really like that, kind of in a way,
reminds me of how the strips were printed off
in the newspaper where sometimes things
weren't always perfectly aligned
so I think it's a really nice look that I'm gonna use.
- Right? And the cool thing about this is,
now that we know how to draw ourselves as Peanuts characters
we can make different versions of ourselves.
I think I wanna dye my hair purple
so I'm gonna try it with this character
and then we'll see what happens with that.
Okay, that looks really good,
I think I'm gonna try that in real life
but what is real life?
Let's talk about it.
All right, Krista, so I feel like we have
two really fun characters and before this,
I didn't know how to translate myself into this style,
but now that I know how to do this,
I'm gonna draw my mom, my dad and my brothers
and all my friends as Peanuts characters.
- Of course, Anthony, I have to say,
your drawing is absolutely perfect.
I feel like your drawing just came
out of one of Schulz's strips.
Thank you so much for drawing with me.
- Thank you so much for that.
I appreciate it.
Okay, now for those of you watching,
let me show you how to share what you've done
because I really want to see it.
Once I tap done, I'm gonna tap again on my drawing
and hit share.
It'll bring up a window and it will show
whether I can share with somebody near me using AirDrop
or I can send a message or even an email.
And that's how you draw yourself
as a Peanuts character in Pages.
I learned so much from Krista.
I hope you all learned something new as well.
Let's go over what we did today.
In the first step, I learned that every Peanuts character
is made up of a few simple shapes
like semicircles and rectangles.
Next, no matter which expression we chose
I learned that Schulz designed his characters
to only feature the necessary lines.
Then I learned that personalizing your character
is as easy as adding a few distinctive things
like hair, clothing and accessories.
Lastly, we experimented a little bit with color
and we got a little crazy by coloring our clothes
even trying out some different things
that we might not usually do.
Thank you all so much for watching, creating
and trying something new with me.
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- [Krista] And share your Peanuts characters with us
using the #TodayatApple.
- [Mark] And for more Peanuts, check out the new series,
The Snoopy Show on Apple TV+.