Top drawing tips, art hacks and how-to guides to help you draw bugs, birds and beasts - all with a cheeky BBC Earth Kids twist!
Ever wanted to draw a squirrel (decking a grizzly bear), an aardvark (with its nose stuck in a hoover), or a goose (ruining a kid’s birthday party)?
Earth Sketch Pad gives you the best tools, tips and hacks to draw amazing animals, cartoon landscapes and natural phenomenon - and all three minutes or less! Which is great, but where’s the fun in just drawing something? Surely, it’s more fun to let your imagination run wild?
Watch as our artists Lorna, Musa and Ricky, armed only with a pad of paper, jumbo markers, and a huge dollop of mischief, turn their awesome animal drawings into something altogether sillier and weirder.
A Venus fly trap chomping on a giraffe? Check. A broke shark hoping to cash in from the Tooth Fairy? Done. A cute bunny causing a hurricane with its farts? Yeah, we’ve got that too.
Earth Sketch Pad - totally wild drawings, in under three minutes.
Despite having wings, penguins are flightless birds. Their wings are for swimming only.
Some species of shark have 45 teeth, arranged in seven rows. They can go through 30,000 teeth in a lifetime!
Hippos can spray their poo up to ten metres from their butts. That’s further than the length of a London bus!
Octopuses don’t have any tentacles. Yes, that’s right! Zero. They have eight ARMS. Tentacles tend to only have suckers on the end.