- Hi, I'm Brent.
- I'm Jason.
- Today, we're drawing comic strip characters.
- From memory.
- I mean, I know some comic strips definitely.
- Easier than comic book.
- Yeah, if you say comic book,
I'd be having a heart attack right now.
- You're on my turf now.
- I don't like that.
- [Director] Today, you are going to be drawing Snoopy.
- Okay.
- That's not too bad, right?
- He's pretty iconic, yeah.
- [Director] You're drawing Garfield the cat.
- Come on.
I only know that guy from memes.
- [Director] Archie Andrews.
- Watch us fail.
(groans)
- Just gonna do some scribbles and I'm done!
There he is.
- Okay, he's got a big nose.
- He's got a massive nose.
Isn't 90% of his body nose?
- He's chill too.
He's usually got an eye closed, right?
- Yeah, I think I've seen that too.
- What does his eye look like?
That's the thing,
all Peanuts characters are made up of like three lines.
So if you don't get those lines down,
there's no hope for you.
- I feel so good now.
- I'm just saying.
- Thank you.
- It's like Riverdale, right?
- Yeah. - Not that I watch that show.
I don't watch that show. - You can admit it if you do.
- [Nick] No, I don't watch that show. (Kyra laughs)
- I grew up growing Garfield
so this almost muscle memory for me.
- If I see it and it looks nothing like Garfield,
I'm gonna be peeved.
- You're gonna be peeved?
- I'm gonna be peeved.
- I mean, I remember he's this high school dude
who hangs out with Jughead.
He usually has a sweater on.
- That's what I'm worried is the clothes
because he change clothes often.
- I think like a sweater and jeans.
Usually his sweater has R on it for Riverdale.
- So what does Garfield look like?
- Garfield's a cat.
His construction is big head, kind of a bean body,
with a beer belly, he's got like a gut.
- Bean, beer belly body?
I feel like some of these things
are contradictory to each other.
- No, makes sense.
- All right, he's just gonna be sleeping
on top of his little dog house.
- He's got big feet.
- Big feet.
- Not like cat feet.
- So wait, he has like human feet?
- No, they're like, think of clown shoes,
like if clown shoes had toes.
- I don't like that.
This description makes me uncomfortable.
- Is Riverdale like a supernatural sort of show?
- I've never seen it, I don't know!
- You do!
- I just know it was loosely based off the comic.
- How can one cat be so difficult to draw?
What am I drawing?
What is this?
I don't understand.
- Not so easy to be a cartoonist now, is it Jackie?
- What a mess, what a mess this is.
- So I take it you didn't read Garfield as a kid?
- No, read Garfield?
Who's reading?
- For some reason I remember what he looks
like when he dances.
Like he has his head all the way up
and you don't see his eyes.
You just see his little happy face.
I'm gonna draw him dancing too.
- There's poses that I sort of draw a lot.
I'll just be like, you know what,
don't know how to draw this guy,
but I do know how to draw this pose.
I'm gonna draw him sitting with his leg over his other leg
and hope that the drawing comes out okay.
- I don't know, I'm just drawing him standing there again.
- Wait, does Snoopy have flat kind of feet?
I feel like he's got people feet.
- I drew him with people feet.
- I don't know what I'm doing.
This looks like an alien.
- He does kind of look like an alien.
I feel like the character has been around so long
and he's been refined so much
that he no longer really looks like a cat.
He just looks like Garfield.
- He looks like a meme.
- What dog is Snoopy?
- I don't know.
- [Director] It say Snoopy is a beagle.
- Okay. - Okay.
Are beagles, they have like sad eyes, right?
Or I am thinking of something else?
- My brain refuses to make this into a thing.
- But you've seen Garfield before.
- I have, but I've never looked at him.
You know what?
I think his ears are together.
That feels like it's correct.
- Yes, his ears are together.
- I'm some kind of genius.
- As I'm drawing this hand,
I'm realizing that I really don't like drawing hands.
- Hands are definitely one of the hardest things to draw.
- Okay, I don't know what his attitude is.
He's sassy in my drawing.
- Yeah, he is very sassy.
- What are you doing for your drawing, like stylistically?
- It's kind of like a mix of what I remember
from the comic style and just general cartooniness.
- What characters did you grow up drawing?
- Sailor Moon.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
I just drew her all the time.
- But you know what?
We don't have to color anything,
'cause guess what?
- He's black and white. - He's black and white, baby.
- Does he have a pink tongue though?
- I mean, if you're gonna include that tongue
then I guess, yeah.
- I think he has a tongue.
- His house is red and that's all I need to draw.
- I kind of want to make the lines smoother.
It kinda felt when he was drawing them,
he drew them with a smooth line,
like he did them very quickly.
- They were very gestural sort of lines.
- What I like about Archie from what I can remember of him
is he's really happy looking.
Everyone in that comic just looks so happy.
What era does it take place in?
- Obviously a happier time.
(Kyra laughs)
- Not gonna lie Jackie, I'm feeling pretty good about this.
- This is not okay.
- Why is not okay?
- Nobody should be forced to look at what I'm doing.
- Jackie, I've never seen you
go through this many emotions before.
- I'm very stressed out.
He's horrifying.
I've never seen such a monstrous creation
come out of my own hands.
- Okay, I drew three versions of Snoopy.
- You drew three versions of Snoopy?
- One of these is gonna be super accurate.
- Does he have like those things that dogs have,
the little spots?
- [Brent] No. - No?
Okay.
- I don't think so.
- Okay, and his eyes are always closed.
- I think he's pretty minimalist,
as far as designs go.
- Stop overthinking this Jason.
- Finish your drawing.
- It's done!
- Are you done?
- Yeah, I don't know what else to do to it.
- How about we have a positive attitude, how about that?
- Hey guys, I'm done with my drawing.
I love Garfield.
What a guy, what a guy that Garfield.
- He hates Mondays.
- He loves lasagna.
- I drew a guy.
Let's call him Archie,
he's got freckles and a big R on his shirt.
That's all I remember from Archie.
So I feel great.
(tape fast forwarding)
- I like his five fingers.
(both laugh)
- You got the Peanuts dancing is spot on.
- Yeah, okay, that's the thing I remember.
I was like they do that little...
- They do that, yeah.
- Peanuts dance.
- It's not fair.
- What do you mean?
- It looks just like him.
- Yeah, 'cause I grew up drawing Garfield.
- Wow, you gave him some disturbingly human hands.
(Jackie sighs)
I just noticed his feet.
His feet are frightening.
Jackie, I said he had human-like feet
and you literally gave him human feet.
- This is like ridiculously appealing.
- He's got an R and freckles.
- We remember.
(smooth music)
- Yeah, boy!
Okay, he's got like a big expressive mouth.
- He does.
- [Jason] Wow, okay.
- I think yours is way closer than mine.
I mean, with the,
he has a collar.
- He does have a collar!
- He's got freckles.
- [Kyra] Do you remember?
- He did have whiskers,
but they're up on his head.
They're like up on the side of his head.
- Why does yours look so much,
Garfield is such a weird looking cat.
- He is a weird looking cat.
It's because it's 40 years of refining the character
that he just becomes more and more abstract.
- Did you say he had hair?
- No, I thought he had whiskers, is what I was thinking,
but he has eyebrows that I didn't notice.
- I guess he has eyebrows, yeah.
- He does have thick eyebrows.
- Yeah, yeah, you got the thick eyebrows.
- I was way off on the hair.
- His mouth thing was so weird.
- Right? That was the one thing that I remember
the most about him was his mouth
and how they constructed it.
- I don't like Garfield, he's my enemy now.
- How can you not like Garfield?
- Garfield has made an enemy today.
- Wow.
Garfield is the most beloved cartoon cat in history.
- That's not true.
Hello Kitty would like something to say.
- Snoopy, he's been perfected by Schulz
over decades of comic drawing.
There's some kind of beauty in that simplicity.
You just get him down to his basic forms,
his iconic shapes, and he's unforgettable, you know?
- Except when you have to draw him from memory.
(both laugh)
(happy music)