How to Draw a Turkey Torso

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you how to easy ways to draw a turkey cartoons for this holiday season. After finishing the head of the turkey it's easy to get cocky, "hey this isn't that hard." We are about to move onto one of the more difficult steps which is like the main body of the turkey. And this is where also having a photograph is good for reference even if you are drawing a cartoon version. You can see here how big full and bull buss would be a good word for the turkey body is. There is a lot of stretched shapes and there are definitely some articulations here. It is not as simple as drawing a circle with a tail on the end. So we are going to need to make sure and keep all of these things into account even when we are drawing our cartoon version of the turkey. Let's start right near where we left off with the neck. We are going to start by drawing first like a little bump here. This is going to be our main hunch and then from there again the body comes in a little bit and then here is the big part. Here is where all of that yummy meat is. Oh my goodness look at all of that. It is making me hungry looking at all of that. Now we are doing something similar down beneath but there is going to be less of an articulation we are not going to have this little indentation here underneath. It is going to be like a nice flowing full line on the turkey's main under body down here. Now for this, I mean look at this, oh my goodness that line is not perfectly straight, and oh that is a little thicker here and a little thinner there. Don't worry about that type of stuff. That is why we are doing this in a pencil at first. So now at this point we have our main turkey body in here. We don't have any of the wings yet or the feathers but we are going to be moving onto that next."