Cartoonist Andrew Hore took kids behind the lines during a cartooning masterclass at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House on Monday.
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An audience of just over a dozen children sat transfixed around a table, drawing and listening to Hore teach them the secrets of the trade.
Parents on the side of the room watched on astutely, as they too tried their hand drawing the divisive Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
But it wasn't just Clinton who got the caricature treatment; Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten received a re-imagining of their own.
Shorten's head started out as an ambiguous peanut shape, eventually morphing into a full drawing of the Labor Party leader seemingly mid-sprint.
"As the body moves, so do the clothes," explained Hore during the segment on animating cartoons.
Hore has been drawing since he was a kid and a cartoonist on and off professionally since his twenties.
"What I enjoy most is basically watching kids really have fun, learn some skills and have a laugh at the same time," said Hore.
"I love seeing the reactions on their faces, and also what they produce is wonderful."
The 'Cartooning Masterclass' is a part of the Behind the Lines 2015 exhibition, where 80 of the best political cartoons of 2015 are on display.
Eight-year-old Caitlin Isbel and her brother Thomas said their favourite part of the program was Hore's humorous take on political subject matter.
However, it was definitely the drawing, not the politics, which took her fancy.
"I don't know much about politics," she said.
"I already do cartoon drawings just for fun. At school we're doing an artwork thing, like this. Just drawing pretty much anyone, but like this."
Hore used to run a Sunday comic strip for The Canberra Times called 'Bubs the Country Bumpkin' and has made contributions to the Australian edition of MAD Magazine.
Now Hore runs his business Funnyworks OZ, which he uses to involve the community through his "Quick Draw" Program.
What's Hore's number one tip for drawing political cartoons?
"Look at all the different available styles that there are, such as the Behind The Lines exhibition is a good chance for you to see all the different styles. And practise."
Behind the Lines 2015 will be on display at MoAD until November 2016, with a travelling version of the exhibition touring throughout Australia at selected destinations.
