Parents are faced with a child’s request to draw a cat, regardless of his age. Little ones want to get a coloring page in the form of a wise Puss in Boots, a mischievous redhead from Shrek or another character from their favorite cartoon, and older children ask for help in completing school assignments.
Instructions on how to draw cats step by step will help novice artists create their first masterpieces. It's better to start with simple images, and only then move on to more complex ones.
Funny cats will appeal to kids. Quick, contour sketches will entertain a child in line or while traveling in public transport. In addition, believability, color brightness or shadow depth do not matter in this case. We offer several simple examples how to draw a cat:
Option 1:
In order to portray such a funny animal from geometric shapes You will need a sheet of paper, a pencil or pen, an eraser and just a couple of minutes of time.
First, you need to draw a trapezoid and conditionally mark the middle (stage 1 and 2). Then the ears and paws are drawn (stage 3 and 4), and the excess is erased with an eraser. At the fifth stage, the pupils, nose, mouth and long mustache. Claws are drawn on the paws. The cat is ready. All that remains is to color it.
Option 2:
The technique of drawing such a cartoon cat is also quite simple. First, the main zones are marked: head, torso, legs and tail. Then the details are drawn: ears, muzzle, claws, hair on the tail. During the final stage, all unnecessary lines are erased and clarity is added to the drawing.
How to draw a cat using pencil technique
Pencil graphics are loved by many artists for the absence of unnecessary details, for their clarity and simplicity. Some people find it simpler than drawing with paints or crayons. Skillful use of technology allows you to create wonderful, “live” works. This skill does not come immediately, but only after long training, drawings, trial and error.
Scientists have proven that drawing is useful for the psycho-emotional sphere of both adults and children. This process relaxes, helps to distract, give a break nervous system. Children develop motor skills, perseverance, the ability to concentrate, and navigate in space.
Not everyone will succeed initial stages, however with time will come understanding how to hold your hand correctly, control pressure, feel the scale and proportions within the sheet. Six months later regular classes it will be possible to open the first home exhibition, and thanks to detailed step by step instructions how to draw cats and cats, it will be much easier to cope with this task.
First, let's try something very simple. We offer a master class on drawing a kitten:
- Everyone remembers from school drawing lessons that a cat’s body consists of simple geometric shapes. The body is oval, the head resembles a flattened circle, the ears resemble triangles with rounded corners, and the tail and paws resemble elongated ovals. We place them on the sheet as shown in the first picture. There is no need to make large distances between body parts. Otherwise, the proportions will be disrupted and it will be difficult to make a complete picture.
- Smoothly connect the drawn figures (stage 2).
- Draw a face and mark it. First, the head is conditionally divided in half. The entire upper part is the cat's forehead. The lower part is divided into three more lobes. In the middle part the nose and mouth are drawn. The eyes should be positioned so that they form a triangle with the lower border of the nose (step 3).
- We gradually replace the outline with small thick hairs, drawing short lines and making the cat fluffy, and then completely shade the body. If you want to draw a cat with a white chest, then the corresponding area remains unshaded (step 4). When drawing fur, you must remember that the hairs should be located in different directions.
- To make the drawing seem voluminous, it is necessary to highlight the paws, torso and head with bold, arched strokes. The drawing direction is from the edges to the middle. You need to draw shadows above the nose, eyebrows and on the paws. Add a mustache, a few lines on the ears, paws and tail (step 5). The cat is ready!
Examples of drawings
In tutorials and the Internet you can find many master classes on how to draw a cat yourself. We offer several drawings of cats for sketching:
Cartoon kitten
Curious kitten
How to draw a portrait of a domestic cat
Using the example of a sketch of a Cornish Rex, you can try to draw realistic portrait your pet. At first glance, it seems completely incomprehensible how to draw such a super cat. However, for this it is not necessary to be professional artist. Even those who have recently started holding a pencil in their hands can do this. Drawing includes only 5 stages.
What you need for a portrait:
- Black pen
- Soft pencil(AT 2)
- Hard pencil
Stage 1:
We mark the muzzle and make the outline of the head and neck. We draw a vertical line that will serve as a guide for the center of the muzzle and two horizontal lines of the same length, between which there will be eyes.
Important! The cat sits sideways and looks at an angle, so the lines should not be parallel to the edge of the sheet, and the left eye should be smaller in size than the right.
Stage 2:
Darken the eyes with a black pen or pencil, leaving room for highlights.
Stage 3:
On the ears and above the right eye we draw hairs, applying strokes from the center of the muzzle. The density of the hatching should be uneven and of different densities.
Stage 4:
Using pencil B2 we draw the eyes in more detail. In this case, the shadow of the pupils should be darker, and the darkest place is in the area located above the pupils. We darken the wool a little to create a smooth flow of color. Draw the mouth, nose, ears and darken the least light areas.
Stage 5:
We polish the drawing, adding shadows where necessary. Draw the nose, paying attention to the shape of the bridge of the animal’s nose. Hard pencil draw a thin, light mustache.
The portrait is ready!
More video about how to draw cats and cats:
How to draw a kitten with a simple pencil. Master class on drawing a small and ordinary kitten.
You will need a simple HB pencil and colored pencils to color the cartoon kitten.
On paper, draw an oval for the face and a smaller, elongated oval for the kitten’s body. 
We give shape to the body, with right side resembles the shape of a vase, and at the bottom left we draw a small triangle - a tail. 
On the head we draw two large triangles - the kitten’s ears and draw the paws on the body. 
Now let's take the kitten's face. We give volume to the ears, draw lines from the edge of the ear to the head on the left side. And on 2/3 of the muzzle we draw an oval and immediately mark the kitten’s smile at the bottom.
We draw the kitten's eyes, nose and mustache. 
Now you can color the kitten, you will need colored pencils for this: brown, orange, blue and black. To give volume to a kitten orange highlight the dark areas on the neck and along the edges of the head. And in black we highlight the outline of the eye and the pupil.
And now, drawing an ordinary kitten with a simple pencil will not be so difficult. We start with the oval of the head and torso. 
Let's prepare a preliminary linear drawing, outline all parts of the kitten: head, paws, ears, tail.
Let's work out the entire contour with a small stroke making the fur, first outline the kitten's face and begin to detail the paws, ears, and make the main stripes on the head.
We draw the eyes, leaving small white stripes on the pupils - highlights, for the realism of the drawing. And we move on to preliminary shading of the head and body, leaving light areas and highlighting darker areas.
The paws and the bottom of the muzzle remain unshaded. Since the kitten is striped, we highlight the stripes on the fur. We make a shadow from the paws and tail.
We re-shade, deepening the tones. We highlight the eyes, use the edge of an elastic band to make antennae, since they are white, you will have to work a little with an elastic band and erase them carefully.
And at the final stage we deepen the darkest areas with small strokes and the kitten is ready.
Cats are the most popular image in fine arts. Purring deities were the favorite models of the Egyptians, and agile hunting cats were the favorite models of the Renaissance masters.
Modern artists also have not ignored charming animals, devoting entire series of paintings to them. Let's keep up with the times - learn to draw cats, cats and kittens.
If your young talent under 5 years old, do not require him to draw a drawing that amazes with the accuracy of its details. Everyone has it childhood there are specific features of recreating artistic image on a piece of paper. By rushing things, you risk destroying the Artist who lives in your child
And one more piece of advice: pay attention to the color schemes that your young talent chooses. Color scheme for the attentive observer children's drawing can tell a lot about inner world artist.
How to draw a cat with a pencil step by step?
In the previous article about that, you became familiar with the basic principles of drawing animals.
Let's recall some of them:
- Whatever drawing you try to draw, it will consist of basic shapes
- rectangle
- square
- circle
- oval
- triangle
Accordingly, before you start depicting anything, you need to learn how to correctly draw basic shapes.
- Be sure to pay attention young artist on size ratio or proportions individual parts animal body. The child must realize that the animal’s head is smaller than the body
- Start drawing a cat from the head. Look closely at the model animal and determine the shape of its head. To make the task easier, imagine the head of an animal without ears and fur. In this way, try to determine the proportions and basic shapes of the animal’s body.
How to draw a cat from circles?
This is perhaps the easiest way to draw a cat:
- sketch a couple of proportional circles. The approximate ratio of the small and large circle is 1:2. This means that the diameter of the small circle is 2 times less than the diameter of the large circle
- add ears and tail
- draw the details of the muzzle (in the first version of the drawing)
And here on the drawing sheet two pussies are dozing
Do round crampons seem too light for you? Take your skill to the next level: try imitating a sitting cat
How to draw a sitting cat (frontal view)#1?
- First, draw a circle that will become a sketch of the animal's head.
- The basic body shape of a sitting cat is oval
The proportions of the oval are as follows:
- along the vertical axis, the oval should be slightly larger than twice the size of the head
- By horizontal axis The width of the cat's body is slightly less than twice the size of the head
- When combining the basic shapes for the head and torso, keep in mind that they overlap each other slightly
- Then, focusing on the diagram and the vertical axis of the oval, draw the front and hind legs, ears of the animal
- Taking into account the auxiliary lines and the main axes of the sketch, draw the nose, mouth, eyes, mustache
- Combine the auxiliary lines into an overall drawing and color it
How to draw a sitting cat (frontal view) #2?
The second method of drawing is somewhat different from generally accepted techniques. Perhaps this option is suitable for playing fun associations
- For ease of drawing, be sure to draw the vertical axis of symmetry of the future drawing. Draw a heart, which will become a sketch of the lower body of a sitting cat.
- Draw a small circle overlaying it on the top of the heart. Draw another circle on top. The diameter of the second circle should be larger than that of the first. The circles also overlap each other. At the top of the large circle, draw two identical ovals. These will be the cat's eyes
- Focusing on the vertical axis of the drawing, draw two arrows, placing them symmetrically on the cat’s head. This will give your purr ears. The small triangle will become the nose. The conventional letter "T" with an elongated vertical line will serve as the line of the front paws
- Draw the number "3" as a sketch for the pads of the front paws
- The symmetrically drawn “3”, placed upside down, will become the hind legs of the sitting animal. The letters "E" will turn into wonderful mustaches
- Spend two curved lines on both sides of the conventional vertical axis of symmetry. The lines should resemble "?". The rounded part of the line coincides with the line of the small circle. The line ends at the intersection with the line of the pads of the front paws. This will give your cat a ribcage and front legs. Don't forget to draw the animal's fingers using "s"
- Combine all the auxiliary lines of the sketch into the main drawing and you will see a charming cat
How to draw a sitting cat (profile)?
Explore the offer below step by step diagram drawing and you will succeed
How to draw a cat sitting sideways with its head turned?
This scheme is a little more complicated, but difficulties cannot stop a real artist
- It all starts with an oval (head) and a circle (body)
- Draw auxiliary lines, draw triangles-ears
- Focusing on the auxiliary lines, draw the details of the cat's face
- Soften the line of the ears a little by drawing slightly curved lines. A broken, curved line drawn around the head imitates the fur of an animal.
- Taking into account the location of the auxiliary lines, draw the front left paw of the animal, the line of the back and the neck
- Draw the tail and the tucked back left paw of the animal. Don't forget to draw the cat's front right paw
- Draw the cat's paws. Erase the auxiliary lines and draw the main lines of the drawing
- Color the drawing as you wish
How to draw a cat's head step by step?
- Draw an auxiliary shape - a circle. Mark the conditional lines: the vertical axis and two parallel lines, passing symmetrically to the horizontal axis.
- Then draw the arcs of the eyes, focusing on the auxiliary lines. Draw a narrow cat's pupil. Don't forget about glare.
- Be sure to sketch out the vibrissae (hairs above the eyes), without which the cat portrait will lose its charm.
- Using the heart shape as a base, sketch out the cat's nose. Consider the location of the auxiliary lines!
- At the bottom of the circle, draw two small arcs that will become the cat's cheeks. Draw a mouth under the arched cheeks.
- Shade the corners of your eyes. Taking into account the location of the auxiliary lines, outline the head of the animal. Applying additional round and triangular shapes will greatly simplify the task.
- Shade the animal's ears, and sketch out the lines of the neck.
- And be sure to draw a mustache! A real cat has twelve hairs on each cheek. But when drawing, such details can be neglected.
- Color the drawing. Don't forget about shadows, which add volume to the image.
How to draw a smooth and fluffy face on a cat?
The diagram below shows how you can change a cat's face by adding different quantities wool Step-by-step drawing of a mischievous kitten from circles with a template
Video: How to learn to simply draw a Cat?
Master class on drawing cats in sitting and sleeping poses step by step with photos.
Nadezhda Yurievna Gorbova, teacher at the Children's Art School, Yaransky District Kirov region, city of Yaransk.
Description: This master class shows step by step drawing red cat sitting and sleeping in watercolor. It also shows a step-by-step drawing of a Siamese cat using the raw technique.
Purpose: The master class is intended for art teachers, educators additional education, parents and children over 7 years old who want to fulfill beautiful work for an exhibition, interior decoration or just for a gift.
Target: making a drawing of a ginger cat in sitting and sleeping poses, making a drawing using the raw technique of a Siamese cat.
Tasks:
- consolidation of knowledge, skills and abilities of drawing an animal using simple geometric shapes;
- further improvement of watercolor skills;
- consolidating the skills of arranging an animal on a sheet of paper;
- consolidation of color science skills;
- fostering love for animals;
- development of attention and accuracy.
Materials: pencil, eraser, watercolor, sheet of A4 size watercolor paper, squirrel brushes No. 2,6,8, white gouache, cloth, jar of water.
Hello dear guests!
This master class is dedicated to drawing one of your favorite pets - a cat.
To cats - children of the universe -
Poems are dedicated.
Cats are cute creatures
Graceful and light!
Egyptians and more
They could be deified
So many years have passed since then,
You can't turn back those centuries.
But centuries are not a burden to them,
Cats don't care about years
After all, even in our time they
The tail is a pipe, but life is the key!
Cats just have a mass:
Bring coziness and comfort into the house.
Still, the cat is a princess,
Well, the cat is undoubtedly a lord!
Cats and cats are varied in color. Today I propose to draw a red tabby and a Siamese cat.
The watercolor technique is not simple, it does not tolerate wear and tear and it is not always possible to correct a mistake. But we will not be afraid and, if the drawing does not work out, we will take a new sheet and try again.
Progress:
1. Let’s imagine the cat’s body as an oval, and its head as a ball. We place the body at an angle and shift it relative to the center of the sheet to the right. There should be margins on the sides. We leave a little more space at the bottom than at the top.
2. Draw the front, hind legs and tail.
3. We begin to draw the muzzle. The nose looks like the letter “T”, the eyes are slightly oval and are located at an angle. Let’s enlarge the chest a little and arch the back.
4. Paint the muzzle with golden ocher color. The nose is pink in a cool shade. Leave white areas around the eyes.
5. Mark the dark areas with red ocher.
6. Paint over the ears with dark pink. On the muzzle we draw stripes (pattern) in brown.
7. We paint the entire body with shades of yellow ocher and red ocher and, while this layer is not dry, immediately draw a striped pattern.
8. Then we will depict the texture of the fur, drawing with small strokes in the direction of hair growth.
9. Let's start drawing the face. Emphasize the nostrils and the contour of the mouth pink-lilac color. Let's draw dots from where the mustache grows. Then we draw a yellow eyeball, then a black pupil in the form of an elongated oval, dry, leaving a white highlight. Outline the eye with a pink-lilac color.
10. Then draw the mustache in pink-lilac color, and repeat on top of it with white gouache. We will also paint the hairs on our cat’s ears with white gouache.
11. You can highlight the fur on the cat’s chest with white color, so it will look even more voluminous.
Now I propose to draw a sleeping ginger cat, curled up in a ball, using the wet technique.
1.Draw an oval
2.Draw the tail, right hind paw and round muzzle.
3. Wet the leaf well cold water. The leaf should absorb water well. Before you start writing, make sure there are no puddles on the piece of paper. Daylight is cold, so we’ll go through bright areas with blue and pink.
4. Paint the remaining areas with shades of yellow ocher and red ocher. When dry, the color in watercolor becomes very light, so use a thicker paint on a damp brush.
5. Strengthen the shadows on the body, muzzle and under the tail.
6. Draw a striped pattern.
7.As the paint dries, the tone becomes lighter, so I will further enhance the shadow parts. If you drip from a brush clean water next to fresh paint, you will get interesting stains.
How to draw a Siamese cat using the raw technique.
1.Draw an inverted drop on the right side of the sheet. This will be the head and front legs. On the left side of the sheet we will draw a semi-oval (the back of the cat).
2.Then we will draw the muzzle in more detail, outline the fluffy tail and paws.
3. The Siamese cat has a very interesting coat color. It casts blue, lilac and different shades blue and brown colors. We begin to write from light to dark, after the sheet is well saturated with water. There should be no puddles on the surface of the sheet. We paint the breast with cool shades, interspersing warm ocher. Then brown shades back and paws.
4. We begin to write the face. First, light shades of brown, then a richer tone, and at the end we emphasize the center of the muzzle with dark blue.
Attention: we try not to let the paint spill into the cat’s eyes; we will paint them dry in a beautiful cornflower blue color!
5.Draw the fur on the chest and make the tail darker.
6. Let’s highlight the central part of the muzzle even darker (the paint dries and becomes lighter). Using a dry brush, remove a little paint on the cheeks to make them lighter. Let's draw the nose more clearly. Lastly, we paint the eyes: first with blue, and when it dries, we paint narrow vertical pupils. At the end we put highlights in the eyes and draw a mustache.
Thai shirt is made of fur
Thai shirt is made of fur
Of desires and riddles.
A cat is not a dog
She has her own habits!
It can’t be someone’s secret
Appreciates affection and care.
It was very hard
She is without a home in bad weather.
People invented the secret
So that when you come home from work,
Ironing while sitting on the sofa,
Forgetting about worries.
Thai woman comes to the house at night
Through the window on the first,
She knows a lot of windows
She just knows how to be faithful.
Thai is a matter of mood:
Will come when he wants,
If he gives you a glance
Also somehow by the way.
Taika wants to go to the roof
To fall in love under the moon
Remember, you can’t replace secret
Will only by myself!
Thai woman sees everything in the dark
Bright blue eyes.
Thai paws are soft
Only the truth with claws.
Thai is a complex creature,
It's not easy with her, it's no laughing matter
I need a cat like this...
The thai is made of fur.
I wish you creative success!
Here are the drawings my first graders made.
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 to get it right draw a cat, let's first learn how to draw a cat like this with a pencil step by step. If you get this cat drawing, you can try drawing your favorite cat or kitten.
1. Let's start drawing a cat with simple contours
To draw a cat more accurately, it is better to learn to do it step by step, doing it in the first steps simple contours. Start the drawing by drawing a circle for the head, and add another circle a little lower for the body, this time a little larger. Then draw another circle at the very bottom of the drawing. To make it immediately clear that this is a drawing of a cat, you need to draw two lines of the front paws.
2. Draw the outlines of the paws and ears
To avoid getting “confused” at this step, first draw the outlines of the paws, and then the ears. This is not at all difficult, and now you see that all that remains is to draw the line of the back and we can say that the drawing of the cat has “appeared”.
3. Drawing of a cat. General outline
Start this drawing step by drawing the head. Draw a small circle for the cat's face and extend the outline of the back, drawing it to hind paw. Now all that remains is to draw the outlines of the front paws, and let's move on to the next step.
4. Detailing the drawing
This stage is not difficult, but requires attention as always. Start by carefully removing all unnecessary lines. Now all you have to do is draw the cat’s face in detail. Draw a bottom oval and two symmetrical arcs for the eyes. And also draw a mouth and nose inside the contour of the muzzle, maybe in the form of the letter “X”.
5. The drawing is almost complete
Now that you're almost done draw a cat, add a few more details. It’s not at all difficult to draw two more “arcs” for the eyes, only this time in a mirror image. The cat's pupils are narrow, like slits, and only when it gets dark do the “slits” open. This is why a cat can easily distinguish objects in the dark. From the eyes, draw two lines for the nose, and all that remains is to draw the claws on the paws. By the way, do you know how many claws a cat has on its front paws? No, not five, but four. But there are five on the hind leg.
Always start drawing with what you think is easier to do. It’s probably not difficult to draw ears, just two lines and the ears are drawn. What else is easy to draw from a cat? Of course, cat whiskers, so draw them. The most difficult thing is to draw the eyes; you need to not make a mistake with the size, make sure that they are on the same line and the same. In addition, you need to make “highlights” in the eyes so that the cat looks like a real one, but this is already at the last step, when you paint the cat.
6. How to draw a cat with a simple pencil
Now that you are completely finished draw a cat, add some shadows to the picture. Shadows will add volume to the picture, and the cat will look more realistic and attractive. To prevent the cat from looking lonely in the drawing, you can draw several objects nearby, for example, “plant” it on the windowsill.
7. Drawing of a cat made on a graphics tablet
I made this drawing on graphics tablet, however, the cat turned out to be of an indefinite color, but this is exactly the cat that lives at my house. You can color the cat in the color you like best or simply shade the drawing with just a simple soft pencil.
If you have a cat at home, then you know that a cat looks different from a cat. She is smaller than a cat, her muzzle is small, and her gaze is not so impudent. Approximately like this drawing made on a graphics tablet.
Tigers belong to the family of cats, or rather felines, and before you draw one, try draw a cat. The cat has the same body structure and even its gait is very reminiscent of the grace of a tiger. And sometimes a mustachioed cat’s face, exactly like a tiger’s, with the same predatory and contemptuous look.
The lion is one of the largest predators in the cat family. It’s not easy to draw, if only because we rarely see a lion, and a cat, although it looks like a lion, is still not a lion. The picture of a lion from the first drawing lesson may not work out, then first take a closer look at your cat and draw it first. Then it will be easier for you to draw a lion.
In this lesson we learn to draw a rabbit. In some ways he is also similar to a cat, although of course there are many differences. But if you were able to draw a cat correctly step by step, then drawing a rabbit will be easier for you.
A kitten is more difficult to draw than an adult cat because it is impossible to make a kitten sit still for even a minute. Therefore, painted pictures of kittens “from nature” are quite rare. The only way to draw a kitten, and a cat too, is only sleeping.
