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Anyone can draw a stick figure - all you need is a circle and five straight lines… four
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straight lines… one straight line and a curvy one?
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The point is, there's no right or wrong way to draw a stick figure.
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So here's how you do it.
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Maybe.
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Step one - the head.
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Draw a circle - well, or an oval, but it looks better if it's a vertical oval because people's
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heads tend to be that way.
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Unless you're drawing a dog.
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Or a sideways person.
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Or Dolores Umbridge.
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Step two - the body.
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Connect it to the head.
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Or close enough.
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Don't make it too long.
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If it curves, the person might be sad.
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Or doing yoga.
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Or a snake.
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Step three - the legs.
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This is the most important part.
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Make them longer than the body.
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That's how most people look in real life.
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You can make them running, or walking, or doing the splits, or squatting, or punting
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Baxter - anything's fine, as long as they're long.
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But not too long, otherwise you get alien weirdness.
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Also no extra joints - unless you're a two-tailed snake.
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Step four - the arms.
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The quick and dirty method is a single line, but it doesn't really look like a real person.
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People have arms that can point independently of one another!
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And necks that aren't half the length of their torsos.
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Arms can do lots of things - yay! scribble scribble scribble telescope point hammer!
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you've been a naughty boy Sad.
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And finally - step five.
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The great enigma of the face: do you draw it?
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I don't because I like to let people project their own emotions onto my stick figures…
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also because I can't draw faces that express any emotion other than cheesy smile!
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And that's how you draw a stick figure!
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Add ears for extra cuteness.
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Hey!
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This video is part of the "School of Youtube" Charity event, inspired by the fact that while
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many of us are lucky enough to attend school or college, there are millions of children
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around the world who can't go to school because of poverty or conflict or lack of educational
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infrastructure or a host of other reasons.
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Comic Relief is a charitable organization that provides grants and aid to tackle the
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root causes of poverty and social injustice around the world, and they'll use the money
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that's raised through this School of Youtube campaign towards helping kids around the world
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get a better education.
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You can donate either online at comicrelief.com/soyt (for "school of youtube") or if you're in
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the US by texting SOYT to number 71777 - message and data rates may apply.
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Even as little as $10 can help provide school supplies for several students for an entire
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year - that's like, one ticket to the movies, or two chocolate malts.
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I like malts so much, I donated a hundred malts worth of education!
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How many malts will you donate?