--- title: Kate Beaton Teaches You How to Draw a Pony | TIME description: "Hark! A Vagrant!" creator Kate Beaton says she first started drawing the pony in 2008. Since then, it's been featured in "Adventure Time" and is now a main character in her new children's book "The Princess and the Pony." canonical: https://time.com/video/Rzc78voP/ og:title: Kate Beaton Teaches You How to Draw a Pony og:description: "Hark! A Vagrant!" creator Kate Beaton says she first started drawing the pony in 2008. Since then, it's been featured in "Adventure Time" and is now a main character in her new children's book "The Princess and the Pony." og:url: https://time.com/video/Rzc78voP/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Rzc78voP/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kate Beaton Teaches You How to Draw a Pony twitter:description: "Hark! A Vagrant!" creator Kate Beaton says she first started drawing the pony in 2008. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Kate Beaton Teaches You How to Draw a Pony [Watch (HLS stream): Kate Beaton Teaches You How to Draw a Pony](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Rzc78voP.m3u8) (1:46)  _Published 2015-07-09. "Hark! A Vagrant!" creator Kate Beaton says she first started drawing the pony in 2008. Since then, it's been featured in "Adventure Time" and is now a main character in her new children's book "The Princess and the Pony."_ --- Jul 27, 2023 6:31 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Kate Beaton's Advice for Kids Who Want to be Cartoonists](/video/DNOpAnYk/) ### Kate Beaton's Advice for Kids Who Want to be Cartoonists [Calling Princess Leia: Advice for Kate Middleton from the Movies](/video/SFYZxvkx/) ### Calling Princess Leia: Advice for Kate Middleton from the Movies [How to Turn Kate Middleton into Princess Kate](/video/jCHGVzNq/) ### How to Turn Kate Middleton into Princess Kate --- ## Transcript [ LAUGH ] [ MUSIC ] I'm Kate Beaton and I'm gonna show you how to draw a pony. So I always start every drawing I make, with the eyes. I think that the eyes are usually the most important part. They're big and round. And then the next thing I do is make a little tuft of hair on top of the it's kind of like things like me, and a little pair of ears. And then the pony needs a face, it's a big round one with the big cheek. And a couple of nostrils. Now we're going to give a little mane, beautiful mane. It's just one line after another really until you think it's long enough. And then we're going to make a body shape here, and it's roughly like a little jelly bean. Looking good. He's looking pretty good. So a lot of people think this is a drawing od a pig and I don't blame them. It's a very small and round pony. But we're gonna give him some legs right now. So lets are just like the little square blocks that he stands on. It's a lot of round jelly bean on top of For a little box. The last thing we need is a tail. That's pretty easy. It's a really- it's a pretty simple drawing but it seems to pack a lot of punch because there's a lot of character in it even for a few simple lines. 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