1. Animals Have Feelings, Too by Mary Erickson, Ph.D., with Arizona art teacher Kathy David in conjunction with the exhibition at Tempe Center for the Arts

2. When animators draw animals, sometimes the drawings look real and sometimes they change the animal’s features. Look at how animator Chuck Jones changed the way a duck looks. He curved the duck’s bill, made the eyes bigger and lower. He also added a tuft of feathers on the duck’s head.

3. Jones drew Daffy Duck with a dark head and a ring around his neck, like a real mallard duck. But he also made Daffy different in other ways. Compare these images. Look at the size and shapes of the eyes, duck bill and head. How are the ducks different? How are they the same?

4. Unlike a real duck, Daffy Duck can smile, raise his eyebrows and look happy. Why is that important? Why do you think cartoonists change or exaggerate the way a character looks? When animators give animal characters human personalities, that is called personification.

5. Look at the drawing on the right. How did Chuck Jones change a rabbit to give it human expressions?

6. Look at the drawing on the right. How did Chuck Jones exaggerate the lion’s face to give him more feeling?

7. Which person’s face is most like the lion’s? How is the lion’s face like the human’s? What feeling does the lion express?

8. This is Chuck Jones’ bookworm. How did he change eyes, mouth, cheeks and eyebrows to express different feelings?

9. Jones was a master of using lines to bring his characters to life. How many different kinds of lines can you find in this drawing of a laughing rabbit?

10. Compare the lines Jones chose to use for the Grinch and for the rat.

11. How do the curvy lines of this rat relate to his character? Do they make him look more sweet or sneaky?

12. Find different kinds of lines Jones used in this drawing. light dark curved straight wide thin tapered

13. Now it’s your turn to choose an animal.

14. ... and personify the animal by giving it human expressions. Be sure to exaggerate parts and use expressive lines.

15. 1. Choose an animal and draw it lightly in pencil.

16. 2. Choose a human feeling to give the animal by changing parts and choosing expressive lines.

17. 3. Consider different kinds of lines you might use to make your drawing show more feeling.

18. 4. Trace over your pencil lines to make them more varied and expressive.

19. Which alligator looks happy? Which looks angry? How are the lines different in the two drawings? How do the lines add to the feeling?

20. Check out the variety of lines some students used to draw these very shocked meerkats.

21. Special thanks to the following Chuck Jones Center for Creativity. Cartoons and drawings courtesy of: © Chuck Jones Enterprises and Looney Tunes TM & © Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.