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Ready Set Draw!

Ready Set Draw!

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Get inspired to draw with talented illustrators of children's books. This series will help students create as many characters as they like from some of their favorite books.

Illustration depicts a boy wearing a baseball cap and binoculars walking through a forest at night, with pine trees around him, a crescent moon above, and an owl flying overhead.
Ready Set Draw!
Season 0 / Ep 1
11 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist drawing the outline of a rope, on which a colorful toucan is perched in front of big tropical leaves.
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Season 0 / Ep 2
10 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Book cover shows an illustration of a young girl happily hugging her grandmother who kneels to hold her in a retro-decorated living room. Text reads, "One, Two, Grandma Loves You. Words by Shelly Becker, art by Dan Yaccarino."
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Season 0 / Ep 3
8 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist draws the outline of a girl with high curly pigtails, who wears a shocked facial expression. His book titled "The Longest Storm" and colorful markers are also on the table.
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Season 0 / Ep 4
9 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist paints a blocky capital-letter I on top of a yellow, blue, and green landscape painting of Ellis Island. Inside of the letter I is the Statue of Liberty, and the artist has surrounded her workspace with reference imagery and sketches.
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Season 0 / Ep 5
12 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Book cover shows an illustration depicting a blonde-haired girl and brown-haired boy in an abstracted autumnal cityscape. Out of wisps of blue behind them emerges a smiling teddy bear. Text reads, "A Bear for Bimi."
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Season 0 / Ep 6
10 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist uses a green colored pencil for the stem of a yellow-petaled flower on a piece of paper.
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Season 0 / Ep 7
7 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist Isabella Kung smiles out at us from her studio, where an easel displays drawings of a fluffy cat wearing a crown and a heart necklace, looking annoyed. Her book "No Fuzzball!" also sits on the easel.
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Season 0 / Ep 8
16 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Book cover shows a long, wavy, enormous cascade of blonde beard hair trailing into the frame of this cover illustration for "The King's Golden Beard." Thin, angularly shaped soldiers engage in various tasks such as reading and peering through a telescope, around the beard.
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Season 0 / Ep 9
14 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist demonstrates how to draw out the face of a cartoon cat using thick black marker on a sheet of paper.
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Season 0 / Ep 10
5 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
White pad of paper with two rows of four comic panels drawn out. In the first panel, a single dot says, "I'm lonely." In the second panel, another dot says to the first dot, "Do you want to play?"
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Season 0 / Ep 11
5 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist sits at a table with markers and her book while drawing on a pad of paper.
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Season 0 / Ep 12
3 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist draws the outline of her characters Peep, a baby chick, and Egg, a round egg, on a pad of white paper. Her book is also on the table.
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Season 0 / Ep 13
2 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist sits with a white pad of paper in her lap as she speaks with the host, who also holds a pad of paper. Between them, a table displays Kelly Light's book "Louise Loves Art" and a plush doll of the main character.
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Season 0 / Ep 14
4 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist draws a complex maze, with multiple winding and crisscrossing roads that pass through forest areas and over a river.
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Season 0 / Ep 15
7 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Watercolor painting of rectangular shapes in primary colors. On the top left, a red-painted square overlaps with a yellow-painted rectangle below, creating a thin rectangle of orange where they meet. Next to the red square is a blue one, which creates a small green square where it overlaps with the yellow rectangle. A pencil-drawn rectangle overlaps all three shapes, where all the colors start to blur together.
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Season 0 / Ep 16
8 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist sits at a wooden table drawing a smirking Viking character from his book, using marker on a pad of paper.
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Season 0 / Ep 17
2 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Illustrator Zachariah OHora shows the video host how to draw a character from a book by Ame Dyckman, who sits between the two men as they draw.
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Season 0 / Ep 18
3 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist holds a Sharpie marker, about to draw on a pad of paper. The book he illustrated is next to him.
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Season 0 / Ep 19
2 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Hand picks up a pair of scissors from a tabletop covered with construction paper, a paper plate, a glue stick, crayon, pencil, and several small triangles, circles, squares, and rectangles cut out of orange, red, green, and yellow paper.
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Season 0 / Ep 20
5 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist draws red circles with wings on a pad of paper, next to which are other markers, pencils, and a palette of watercolor paints.
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Season 0 / Ep 21
6 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist uses pen to draw the outline of stout shark. The book titled "Hide," can be seen on the table along with a pencil and ink.
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Season 0 / Ep 22
6 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Book cover shows an illustration of two young children looking surprised when a T-rex, triceratops, and other dinosaurs burst into a party that is packed with balloons, confetti, gifts, and cake.
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Season 0 / Ep 23
6 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist shows the cover of the book "Dancing Through Fields of Color," a watercolor painting that depicts a young girl who seems to be blooming just like the bright colorful flowers that spring up and float around her. Paint and paintbrushes are visible near the edges of the frame.
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Season 0 / Ep 24
7 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist sits at a wooden table, drawing a cartoon dog on a white pad of paper using a black marker.
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Season 0 / Ep 25
2 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist uses a black marker to add outline details to a scribbly colored-pencil drawing of a turtle.
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Season 0 / Ep 26
6 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Book cover shows an illustration of a mouse holding a sword made of wood, standing on top of a book with a house cat on the cover, between two piles of books. Text reads, "Library Mouse. Daniel Kirk."
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Season 0 / Ep 27
12 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Book cover shows an illustration of a white and orange cat holding a teacup near a table with another teacup on it. A paper airplane swirls through the air. Text reads, "Tea with Oliver. By Mika Song."
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Season 0 / Ep 28
2 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist's table is set up with a drawing pad, markers, and her book, "A Normal Pig." One of the characters, a black-spotted pink pig, has been digitally added to the scene look like it is standing up on the piece of paper.
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Season 0 / Ep 29
12 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
On top of a pad of paper on a tabletop, the artist positions her book "I Am a Cat," whose cover illustration features a gray house cat who appears extra small compared to the tiger, panther, and leopard sitting behind it.
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Season 0 / Ep 30
7 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist points to a drawing of a turtle on a pad of paper while also holding a book with a similar-looking turtle illustration in it.
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Season 0 / Ep 31
4 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Dan Yaccarino's book titled "Unlovable" stands propped up on a table. The cover features a round pug with big dark eyes looking up, surrounded by a colorful border of flowers, butterflies, and bees.
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Season 0 / Ep 32
4 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist holds a small cup of ink while drawing a light brown bear, whose arms are raised as it appears to be taking a big step forward.
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Season 0 / Ep 33
15 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Book cover of Dan Yaccarino's "Doug Unplugged" appears on top of a purple background with a circuit board pattern on it. The book cover depicts a yellow boy-like figure with an antenna on his head, smiling as he looks down at the cord he is holding.
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Season 0 / Ep 34
5 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Book cover shows an illustration of a girl riding a bicycle through a tree-lined neighborhood over large green hill. Text reads, "Born to Ride, a Story About Bicycle Face."
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Season 0 / Ep 35
6 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist draws the outline of the head of a cartoonish dog from the book Bubblegum Princess.
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Season 0 / Ep 36
2 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist's table is set up with colored pencils, markers, and other drawing tools as they show us the cover of the book "The ABCs of What I Can Be," which depicts people wearing the clothing of an astronaut, a beekeeper, and a scientist.
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Season 0 / Ep 37
4 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist holds up a pad of paper to show us his simple purple line drawing of a flying bird.
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Season 0 / Ep 38
5 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist draws simple shapes, including a square, oval, circle, and triangle on one half of a piece of paper.
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Season 0 / Ep 39
8 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist draws the clawed feet of a perched owl that has a serious expression on its face.
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Season 0 / Ep 40
7 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist uses markers to draw the red stripes of the barrel of a cement-mixing truck, whose body is boxy and blue.
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Season 0 / Ep 41
3 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist holds up "The Bunny Burrow Buyer's Book," whose cover illustration features a thick swooping black brush stroke resembling a hill, where two bunnies meet in the middle to shake hands among some trees.
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Season 0 / Ep 42
3 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Book cover shows an illustration of a round yellow bird wearing a checkered scarf spreading wide its black-tipped wings as it stretches, standing in a tree-lined park. Text reads, "Let's Go, Hugo!"
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Season 0 / Ep 43
3 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Artist holds up the book "Swap," whose cover depicts a pirate on a small boat trading folded cloth for steering wheels with a man on a dock.
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Season 0 / Ep 44
3 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Tabletop with a pad of paper in the middle, surrounded by scissors, a glue stick, different shades of gray and black paper, and three of the illustrator's published books, featuring bold, colorful covers.
Ready Set Draw!
Season 0 / Ep 45
5 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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