{"id":15175,"date":"2021-07-24T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=15175"},"modified":"2021-07-22T18:56:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T01:56:15","slug":"how-to-draw-yourself-as-a-peanuts-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/24\/how-to-draw-yourself-as-a-peanuts-character\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How to Draw Yourself as a Peanuts Character&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Right at the start of my career, I had the chance to draw some simple Peanuts animations for MetLife banner ads. The cool thing is that back then, Charles Schulz himself had to approve each use of his characters\u2014and I&#8217;m happy to say he approved mine. &#x1f60c; (For the record, as I recall it feature Linus&#8217;s hair flying up as he was surprised.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any event, here&#8217;s a fun tutorial commissioned by Apple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Draw Yourself as a Peanuts Character in Pages with a Snoopy Artist | Apple\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b0nWcBVvhd0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As Kottke notes, &#8220;They\u2019ve even included\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/learn.appletvapp.apple\/download\/drawlikepeanuts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a PDF of drawing references<\/a>\u00a0to make it easier.&#8221; Fortunately you don&#8217;t have to do the whole thing in 35 seconds, a la Schulz himself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charles &quot;Sparky&quot; Schulz  Draws Charlie Brown (Official Video)\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dS0vUbWdNxg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/plus\/misc\/images\/peanuts-drawing-references.jpg\" alt=\"different faces drawn for Peanuts comic strip characters\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/21\/07\/how-to-draw-yourself-as-a-peanuts-character\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right at the start of my career, I had the chance to draw some simple Peanuts animations for MetLife banner ads. The cool thing is that back then, Charles Schulz himself had to approve each use of his characters\u2014and I&#8217;m happy to say he approved mine. &#x1f60c; (For the record, as I recall it feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15178,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15175\/revisions\/15178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}