How to draw a cat with a pencil or paints? How to draw a beautiful cat.

The article contains instructions and drawing diagrams that will help you draw a kitten, Siamese cat and fold cat, sleeping, in anime style.

A cat is an amazing animal: elegant, graceful, intelligent and cunning. Sometimes she is tenderness itself, sometimes she is a formidable predator with the habits of a born killer.

You can watch a cat’s habits and postures during sleep for hours. And the breeds of this animal are so different! That’s why it’s quite difficult to draw a cat, to display it realistically, without losing details. But why not try?

How to draw a kitten with cute eyes step by step with a pencil for children and beginners?

Drawing a kitten is very pleasant and not very difficult. What should you do first?

IMPORTANT: It is best to start by marking the drawing. You need to decide where the kitten’s head will be, what position the body will be in, how to draw its paws and tail, whether the kitten will walk or lie down.

Marking can be done using simple forms:

• the head is like a ball flattened at the top and bottom
• body - like a big bean
• paws are like sausages
• tail - curved and tapering towards the end
• ears - triangles

1. The next stage is connecting the forms, so that the legs are not drawn separately from the body, but so that they are one with it.
2. Next you need to draw the natural curves of the kitten’s body and head, and draw the paws.
3. The next step: drawing the muzzle, again, using preliminary markings. The kitten's eyes and nose will be located at approximately the same level in the drawing. If you look at pictures of cats, they look like a triangle between the inner corners of the eyes and the lower corner of the nose. To make the kitten have cute eyes, you can make them a little larger than the usual size, draw and darken the pupils, leaving highlights at the bottom.

VIDEO: Learning to draw a kitten's face

How to easily and simply draw a kitten according to the cells in a notebook?

Drawing by cells is easy and convenient both for children, who have more than enough such notebooks, and for adults. The advantages are that you do not need to make preliminary contour sketches of the future drawing, it is easier to calculate symmetry, etc.

1. Draw a kitten's head - this will be the widest place on the paper.
   For example, draw a straight line of 3 cells at the site of the head - the forehead, which goes into the crown. Next, there are 3 squares where the kitten’s “cheeks” will be.
2. Make stepwise transitions in the drawing of the head; they will add volume and a feeling of fur.
3. Cells are allocated for large and voluminous eyes and a small nose 1 cell lower than the lower part of the eyes.
4. The necessary part of the cat’s essence is added to the head – its whiskers.
5. Ears are drawn using stepped transitions.
6. They move on to the image of the neck, and with the help of cells they try to make it not straight, but stepped here and there. The body of a kitten is also depicted.
7. When drawing a ponytail, you need to make it bend beautifully and gracefully.

How to draw a fold-eared kitten?

Scottish and British fold cats have a peculiarity - their ears are bent forward, and do not stick out like other furry cats.

1. Make two vertical and horizontal lines to determine the symmetry of the head. Horizontal lines will help to draw the kitten’s eyes and nose, and vertical lines will help to draw the position of the head, using the lines to determine that the kitten’s head is turned to the side.
2. Draw eyes. They are placed at a distance from each other equal to the volume of each of them.
3. Below in the middle between the eyes a small nose is drawn.
4. They make expressive contours of the eyes and leave white highlights on the pupils. Create a cat's eye shape by slightly lengthening the outer part of the eye.
5. Draw auxiliary light rounded arrows symmetrically from the nose. They will help you draw fur.
6. Shade the fur with a pencil. On the top of the head, under the ears, on the “cheeks” and at the bottom of the muzzle, the shading is made thicker, this is how the hair of Scottish Folds grows.
7. Don't forget to draw long mustache– vibrises.

VIDEO: How to DRAW a Scottish Fold CAT?

How to draw a Siamese kitten?

Siamese cats have the main distinguishing feature- their coloring, so they draw the cat in full height so that all the coloring is visible.

1. Draw a vertical line, from which there will be lateral symmetry, and several horizontal ones, indicating the head, the extension on the cat’s chest and the place where the paws will be located, that is, the end of the drawing.
2. The contours of the head are outlined in a circle, and the contours of the chest and bent paws in a sitting kitten position with ovals.
3. Draw a drop-shaped oval between the chest and paws of the cat. In this part, the cat’s front paws will be drawn, on which he rests.
4. Draw the eyes symmetrically to the first vertical line from which the drawing began.
5. They begin to draw the body and head of the kitten. On the head in the area of ​​the chin, the lines are narrowed and the nose is drawn, which in Siamese cats is larger and more protruding than in some other breeds. Paws are depicted and the tail is completed.
6. They begin to do shading in those places where thicker hair grows, these are lines from the nose, on the forehead, under the ears, on the stomach behind the front legs, at the tip of the tail. They also do shading for shading.
7. Erase the auxiliary lines and start coloring the face, ears, paws and tail like Siamese cats.

How to draw a sleeping kitten step by step?

1. First draw a circle for the head of a sleeping kitten. Markings are made inside the circle that will help draw eyes, nose and mouth.
2. Semicircular lines outline the eyes, nose, mouth, and also add ears. Lightly outline the kitten's fur with lines. A sleeping kitten's ears are lowered parallel to its head.
3. A larger oval is drawn behind the head, which will mean a sleeping kitten curled up. Stretch a rounded line forward of the kitten’s muzzle, as if it was covering itself with its tail while sleeping.
4. Under the fluffy's cheek, draw a paw on which the kitten rests its head.
5. Erase the auxiliary lines and outline the main ones.
6. Draw antennae on the muzzle.

Sleeping cat: stages 1-2.

Sleeping cat: stages 3-4.

Sleeping cat: stages 5-6.

Sleeping cat: stages 7-8.

VIDEO: draw a sleeping cat

How to draw an anime kitten?

Anime characters have huge eyes. cartoon characters. As for the kitten, in addition to huge eyes, it should have a head much larger than its body. That's why:

1. Draw two circles - one larger for the head, the other smaller for the body.
2. Where the head will be, make a mark, dividing the circle into 4 parts.
3. Now you should, focusing on the contours, change the shape of the head, expanding the lower part where the fur is located, and finish drawing the kitten’s ears.
4. Drawing a kitten big eyes using oval lines. Shows the kitten's eyebrows and nose.
5. In front of the oval indicating the body, the paws are outlined.
6. The body is rounded and a tail is added.
   They make the eyes of an anime kitten expressive by darkening individual areas and round light highlights inside the pupils.

Anime cat: steps 1-2.

Anime cat: steps 3-4.

Anime cat: steps 5-6.

Anime cat: steps 7-8.

VIDEO: Kitten step by step with pencil

How to draw a kitten's face?

1. The most simple drawing The kitten's muzzle will become an oval, with triangles-ears above it.
2. Inside the oval, eyes are depicted symmetrically from the conventional line of the vertical center of the oval.
3. Below the eyes, between them there is a nose, short rounded top lines extending from it, and under them a dot indicating a mouth.
4. Draw triangles on the ears and lightly shade them, and also make the kitten’s “bangs” with lines.
5. Draw mustaches.

Drawing for sketching: a tabby cat in pencil.

VIDEO: How to draw a cat with a pencil?

You can draw a cat using paints, crayons, pencils and other visual arts. However, if you are a beginner, it is better to start with the simplest ones, gradually moving on to more complex ones. Having mastered the technique of drawing with a pencil, in the future it will be easier for you to draw with paints and other materials. It is also worth considering that when using the same drawing technique, the result, due to the individual abilities of each artist, always turns out different.

Learn to draw a cat step by step

First you need to remember what a cat's body consists of - this is the body, head, tail, ears and paws. The listed body parts are simple figures: the body is an oval, the head is a slightly flattened circle, the ears are triangles with rounded corners, and the paws and tail are elongated ovals.

Connecting the drawn figures together

This needs to be done smoothly, as if adding parts of the body to each other, as in the process of modeling from plasticine. If the face of the future cat is designed to be half a turn, then the far ear should be depicted rotated, and its outline in the drawing should be made thinner so that its inner side is almost invisible. To make a cat more believable, you should not draw only straight lines; any part of the body has irregular shape with bulges and smooth curves.

Draw a face

The eyes and nose of the future cat should be drawn in the lower part of the head, having previously delimited the areas on the muzzle: first, mentally divide it in half, determining where the upper border of the eyes will be, and then divide the lower part into three lobes. Thus, in the middle part of the lower lobe the nose will be outlined, and below it - the mouth of the future cat. The inner corners of the eyes should form a triangle with the lower corner of the nose.

Drawing wool

How to draw a cat fluffy? In place of the old outline we apply small lines - wool. There is no need to rush to draw a broom in place of the tail; the result will be much neater and more natural if you draw individual hairs along the contour of the tail.

Shading the body

On at this stage We shade the cat’s body, completely covering it with small hairs, observing the direction and length. Breast and inner side The ear closest to us can be left unshaded.

Adding volume

We do this by drawing the legs, torso and head with brighter bold strokes. The strokes should go in an arc from the edges to the middle. We make the far paws darker than the near ones. Apply shadows over the nose, eyebrows and on the paws.

Finishing touches

We enhance the shadows, add whiskers and some random lines on the ears, tail and paws. Voila, the cat is ready!

Drawing a cat with a pencil (method for beginners)

A simpler version of drawing a cat using a pencil is clearly shown in the following diagram:

1. We depict a circle and an oval, which will later become the head and body of the animal.
2. We add 4 small ovals to the large oval - these will be the limbs of the future cat, and in the circle we outline a smaller circle - the muzzle.
3. We draw triangular ears, paws in the form of two small ovals and outline places for the eyes.
4. We complete the tail with an arc, add the front limbs with elongated oval details - paws, and draw the eyes.
5. We finish marking the body parts.
6. We draw the mustache in detail, add a little fur on the muzzle, and give the drawing a finished look.

Cartoon cat coloring book for child

It’s not at all difficult to draw a funny cartoon cat in anime style that will bring a lot of joy to your child. We follow the visual instructions and repeat.

1. Draw a large circle, divided into 4 parts, and under it an oval.
2. We slightly stretch the face of the future cat to the sides and decorate the ears.

1. We designate the nose, eyes and eyebrows.
2. We finish drawing the paws.

1. We complete the drawing of the animal with the image of the body (in place of the previously outlined oval) and tail.
2. We remove the auxiliary lines, outline the outline of the coloring cat and let your child color the resulting cute kitten with paints or markers.

Another option for creating a simple but very cute cartoon cat coloring book can be seen in the video below.

Let's give a few more simple ways depict a cat, which are suitable even for beginners.

And, using the step-by-step diagrams below, you can quickly and easily draw cats of various breeds.

Master class on drawing for children from 5 years old “Cats of our yard”

Progress of the lesson:

"Cats of our yard"
It was raining outside the window. Fedka went to the window, sighed heavily, that's why that he won’t be able to go for a walk today. Probably his cat, sitting on the window and looking at the falling raindrops, thought the same thing as Fedka. The cat's name was Vaska, he was red-haired and loved to walk on warm sunny days. Vaska was not walking alone, he had friends from our yard.
The cat on the second floor was called Tikhan, he was black in color, and a white woolen path ran from his pink nose to the tip of his tail. Tikhan was the master in the yard that even the dogs were afraid of him, and once again they preferred not to meet him. Tikhan really loved to fight.
In the summer, grandsons came to Grandma Shura from the first floor and brought their cat Murka. Murka had a smoky color, her fur was soft like plush. Murka loved to sleep on the windowsill and watch people passing by.
And not so long ago another red cat, Murzik, appeared in our yard; he was given to a girl named Olya for her birthday. Murzik is still very small and restless, he loves to hide everywhere, run around in bags, and sometimes he climbs to the very top of the carpet hanging on the wall. All cats, like people, are very different, each has its own character and appearance. These are the cats of our yard.
-Guys, let's try to draw the cats that are described in the text.
Step by step work.
"Cat Tihan"
1. Draw a large circle - the torso. photo 1

Puss in Boots from a favorite fairy tale or a favorite domestic cat often become characters in children's drawings. In addition, such pictures, drawn with pencil or paints, can be a good decoration for a child’s room. But in order to draw a cat correctly, let's first learn how to draw it with a simple pencil, then let's try ourselves oil painting, and after that we’ll find out how to depict furry pet five different ways.

Pencil drawing step by step

To prevent the cat from looking lonely in the drawing, you can draw several objects nearby, for example, “plant” it on the windowsill.

Oil painting

For the lesson we will need:

• titanium white;
• gas soot;
• burnt umber; (mars brown)
• cadmium red; (red durable kraplak)
• cadmium yellow medium;
• blue FC;
• cobalt violet dark;
• Thinner for oil paints;
• canvas (square);
• rag;
• brushes (No. 3, No. 1, No. 6, No. 16).

Before you start working with paints, I want to pay attention to some points:

1. Start simple.
2. If you have never drawn animals before, do not paint them in some complex (incomprehensible) poses, and it is better if the color is limited to one color. This way it will be more clear how to create shadows and light on the fur, and you won’t have to think about how to go from one color to another.
3. To avoid gross mistakes in the structure of the animal, it is worth considering that all animals' eyes are on the same line, and their size is the same, especially if they look directly at you. The same can be said about the location of the ears and the length of the paws.

Let's start the oil painting lesson: background and sketch

Making the background. To do this, mix burnt umber and whitewash, add a little thinner to them and cover the entire canvas with a large brush. Give it 10 minutes. so that the paint is absorbed a little.

Sketch. Using a thin brush dipped in white, we plan to paint a kitten. Next is the line of the back of the chair from behind which it peeks out. Cat's head and paws. We evaluate the proportions and shape of the intended objects. For example, we look to ensure that the head is not too large (small) in relation to the canvas and paws, and that our sketch looks symmetrical and harmonious.

We wipe off the paint. Using a cloth, remove the background paint from the areas where you marked the cat’s body and the light-colored chair.

We outline the kitten's head and paws with light white paint. If necessary, we adjust the shape, size or placement. You can also use this paint to mark the back of the chair on which the kitten is leaning.

At this stage, you can immediately mark the shadow under the kitten’s paws with cobalt violet mixed with white and burnt umber.

Continuation of the lesson: background, main character, eyes

Background. Our next task is to draw everything that is behind the kitten. You should not put too much effort and precision into this work. Our background is “out of focus”, a little blurred. Therefore, we can outline it with a fairly large brush.

We are writing the main character. Next we outline the main color and light spots on the kitten’s face. Mix grey colour: with whitewash and gas soot. We mark the light on the nose with clean and thicker white. Lightly mark the darker spots where the eyes will be located. Light on the paws. Let's clarify the shadows. Thus, slowly but surely, step by step without haste, we are moving towards an increasingly detailed elaboration of the portrait of our playful and furry hero. Only at the last stage of work, on top of the main spots, do we sketch out thin, elegant strokes, marking the antennae and fur of the kitten. It should be noted here that when drawing a kitten’s fur, even at the initial stage, your strokes should follow the direction of growth of the animal’s fur.

Eyes. Further, important stage, the mirror of all our work is the eyes of the hero. They must be the same shape and size, and also be placed on the same line (without distortions). This is extremely important! In order not to get confused and not tormented by doubts and corrections, I advise you to initially outline the size, shape and placement of the eyes simply as darker spots. Evaluate them and adjust if necessary.

Next is work with color. Everything is quite simple here. We outline the pupils, almost pure black (a vertically elongated oval). Then, add eye color. In my case, it’s burnt umber with cadmium yellow and a drop of white. Let's add highlights on top of the essentially finished eye. We do this with thick white paint with a thin brush and quite accurately, since it will be difficult to correct.

Important! - we work on two eyes at the same time, rather than drawing one eye first and then the other. With this approach, there is a very high chance that you will draw different eyes.

That's all! The picture is ready!

Draw a striped cat (felt-tip pen, pen, pencil)

Stage 1. Let's draw the auxiliary lines of the cat. The circle is the head, the oval is the body. In the circle, just above the middle, draw a straight line for the eyes. The tail line extends upward from the oval at the back. Below the oval there are straight and broken lines of the cat's future paws.

Stage 2. We begin to outline the contours of the body of our pussy. Using the auxiliary lines outlined in the previous stage, we outline the cat’s body, showing a thick tail raised up and curved at the end, back, ears, muzzle, chest, paws.

Stage 3. Draw the cat's eyes on the face. The arrow shows in enlarged form how to draw them correctly.

Stage 4. Now we will draw spotted areas, cheeks, and nose on the ears and muzzle. In the circle all this is shown in an enlarged form.

Stage 5. From the bottom of the head along the neck, chest and front legs we will draw transverse lines - future stripes on the fur of our cute little animal.

Stage 6. We will also draw transverse stripes along the rest of the body, hind legs and tail, giving our cat a special flavor.

Stage 7. Now let's erase all unnecessary lines and leave only the necessary ones.

Stage 8. Let's color our kitty. It should be striped. It can be gray with white stripes, or black with white stripes. Or maybe red, also with stripes.

You know very well what colors cats can be, so color your heroine as you wish.

5 ways to draw a cat

In order to learn how to draw a cat in five different ways, we will need a sheet of paper, a pencil medium hard and an eraser. Just in case, you can take a compass and a ruler. So, choose the cat that you like and simply repeat each step step by step.

Greetings to all, dear friends!

The topic of our lesson is a cat, and today we will learn not to copy it, but to draw it. Let's study a little bit of cat anatomy, get acquainted with several important rules who will help quickly, beautifully and correctly draw cats of different breeds. The information and tips in this lesson are applicable to most different techniques, in which you would like to depict this graceful animal.

Features of anatomy

Let's start not with the most interesting, but important.

It's much easier to draw animals when you understand how they work. Let's look at the anatomy of a cat:

It's all very complicated, isn't it?

Luckily, to draw cats you only need to know a few things. important points in their structure. Therefore, we will simplify the anatomy of these animals to the level we need.

The anatomy of an animal for artists can be depicted simply and clearly with the following diagram:

They will help us quickly and easily understand the anatomical features of a cat’s structure. analogies with the human body.

As you can see, a cat, like a person, has:

• chest and pelvis;
• shoulder and elbow joints;
• wrists and fingers;
• there is also a hip, knee, heel and toes on the hind legs.

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Understanding how many times and where the limbs bend, it is much easier to understand how to draw a cat in motion.

Materials

• Graphite pencils of different hardness
• Eraser
• Blank sheet of paper.

Let's start drawing

In order to depict any living creature, it is very important to have a good idea of ​​what it looks like. If you have a furry and purring friend at home, great, you have a wonderful nature. If there is no live cat nearby, you will have to find high-quality photographs and draw a kitten or cat that you especially liked.

Head

Let's first take a closer look at some of the nuances of drawing a face. Some people will help us to correctly depict a portrait of a living being: simple circuits and rules.

eyes ears nose

The eyes and ears of animals are placed symmetrically, they have the same shape and size. To correctly place the eyes and ears, you need to easily outline the horizontal axis; it will help draw them at the same height.

• Ear The cat has a slight bend on the outside. The ears usually grow longer hair.
• Eyes We start drawing cats from a circle, add a small triangle in the inner part. The more light, the smaller the pupils become; accordingly, in the dark the pupils are very large.
• Spout start drawing from a triangle, divide it vertical line in half. Add nostrils, they are directed downwards.

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Full face

1. Draw a circle, or an oval slightly flattened horizontally. This circle should be divided in half horizontally and vertically (red and black axis). The upper horizontal part of the circle should be divided into three more equal parts (blue and gray lines), and the lower half should be divided in half (green line).
2. We outline the eyes on the red horizontal axis, and the nose on the green one. We start drawing the ear on the blue line, and finish on the gray line. Pay attention to the placement of the ears in relation to the eyes and head.
3. We clarify the shape of the eyes, ears, nose, show the muzzle, highlight the chin a little, and correct the oval of the head.
4. Using strokes we show the fur, shadows, and add details. Let's easily outline the antennae, the longer hair inside the ears. Let's show the relief above the eyes and near the nose. Let's highlight the eyes and add a few strokes to show the neck.

Profile

1. If we draw a cat in profile, we start from the circle. Divide it in half with a horizontal and vertical line. Horizontal axis will show the direction of view. We attach a shape similar to a trapezoid (cat's face) to the circle.
2. The nose and upper lip will occupy 2/3 of the trapezium, the rest will be the lower jaw. We outline the eyes, ears and nose.
3. We draw the details: fur, antennae, pupils, pile.

The nose, eye and ear are on the same line.

Pose and line of movement

It always helps to draw any creature in motion or in a static position line.

How to draw hair correctly

Yes, exactly the line that will show the direction of movement, effort, or the bend of the spine in a static position.

Don't neglect the centerline; it is extremely important if you want to portray a beautiful, graceful, and well-shaped body. Now we must clearly imagine how the cat will move and express it in one elegant line. It is very important!

The illustration below, in red, shows examples of curves that help draw an animal in motion.

We are drawing a very graceful animal, her movements are always very smooth, beautifully curved, graceful. It’s hard to imagine some kind of angular, sluggish, square cat.

Simple forms

We begin to draw according to a simple children's scheme: “stick, stick, cucumber, it turns out to be a little man.” In our case it’s a little different, but the principle is the same, we start with simple shapes, lines, circles and ovals.

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To the previously outlined axial curve we add simple shapes, indicating the head, chest and pelvis.

We also outline the tail, front and hind legs. For greater accuracy, we can easily show the joints (shoulder, pelvic joint, knee and elbow).

At this stage we apply all the lines very easily, barely touching the sheet with a pencil, so that later we can make changes and add details.

Figure

We combine all forms. At this stage, you can draw a little of the cat's head. To do this correctly we will need two more axes. One axis bisects the head vertically, the other horizontally. We need these lines in order to symmetrically place the eyes, nose and ears. The eyes of most breeds are located in the middle of the head.

We clarify the shape and thickness of the tail. Add paws, outline the thickness of the legs.

Clarifications

Take a break from your work and then look at it with a critical eye. It is possible that you will see some errors. Now is the time to correct them.

There is one big plus in our drawing approach:

The schematic image that we received at the first stage of drawing can be turned into a cat of any breed and color.

We clarify the silhouette of the animal, the curves and shape of the legs, draw the paws, add antennae on the muzzle and ears.

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The direction and length of the stroke helps to depict fur, and the intensity of the shading will help emphasize the shadows, curves and relief on the animal's body. We create the spotted or striped color of a cat using shading of different densities and saturations.

Wool

The fur of these animals grows from nose to tail. If you want to show the hair with a pencil, then the strokes must follow the direction in which the hair grows. In long-haired breeds, the pile will fall down a little.

The wool should follow the shape of the animal's body. This is especially true for smooth-haired and hairless breeds.

The length and thickness of the pile - it all depends on what kind of cat you want to draw. Here it’s better to look at nature or take a suitable photo.

Video tutorial

Watch the video on how to draw a Siamese cat:

I hope these simple recommendations will be useful for you.

Perhaps you want to know how to draw a cat with oil paints or - follow the links and watch video tutorials on this topic.

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Pictures for inspiration

In animal painting, cats and kittens are among the three most popular subjects. These cute creatures are found in almost every home; they are drawn by adults and children, beginners and experienced artists. The grace, beauty and character of a cat make us admire, wonder, calm down and smile.

Let's look at the great ones paintings with cats to get inspired and create something similar. Artist Midori Yamada: