Do you want to learn how to draw a realistic cat? Then you’re in the right place! I’m going to show you step by step how to draw a cat from the basic shapes to the final details. Here’s the final result! Make sure to follow the step by step to do a drawing like this!
Adorable Cat Painting Tricks And Steps Tutorial For Kids
Learn tricks and steps to make an adorable cat painting, using step-by-step instructions. Easy and very thorough tutorial and a secret here, you don’t always need a paintbrush to paint. Yes, it is true, so, make this painting with us and find out.
Materials Required
- A small circular thing
- A slightly bigger circular thing as compared to the smaller one you took
- A blank, white sheet of paper
- Paint colors ( Black, White, Orange, Red, Light green, Yellow, Pink, Blue )
- A paintbrush
- A black pen
Step 1: Drawing A Cat And Paint It Black
Draw a cat on a plain sheet of paper. Paint the cat with black color, using a straight, only slightly thick paintbrush.
Step 2: Brushing The Boundary The Hair, Using A Toothbrush.
Now, stroke the boundary using a toothbrush. Do not make the strokes too long, they must be very short. Refer to the image shown above.
Step 3: Making The Eyes Using The Imprinting Technique
Take something circular and paint white color on it. The circular thing must be the right size to look as an eye. It must neither be too large, nor too small. Now, make the impression of the paint on the cat, to make the eyes, before the paint dries off. Make sure to get the shape exactly circular.
Step 4: Painting The Eyes Further, Using The Same Imprinting Technique
Now, take a smaller, exactly circular thing, put some black paint on it. Imprint it on the eyes. The impression must not be in the center, be careful but towards your left, forming a crescent on your right. Make sure, a thin white boundary is very clearly visible on the left side as well. Observe the given reference image.
Step 5: Using The Earbud To Portray The Reflection In The Eyes
Take an earbud and make two dots, using white paint. The dots must be in a diagonal and must not touch the white boundary.
Step 6: Drawing A Red Belt Round The Neck
Take the paint brush and draw a belt around the neck using the red paint. Make a nose, using orange color a little below, just between the eyes, as shown.
Step 7: Imprinting To Make A Ring, In The Center Of The Belt
Take that little circular thing and make a ring on the belt using orange paint.
Step 8: Let Us Getting Started With The Background
Take some yellow paint on the brush and make a radius in the ring as the reference image. For the background embellishments, take that circular thing again, that you used to make the ring. Using that, make butterflies using orange color as done in the above picture.
Step 9: Making Some More Butterflies
Make more similar butterflies and using a black pen, give the butterflies a finishing touch.
Step 10: Taking Toothbrush And Making Grass
Take the toothbrush again, and make strokes of green, using a light green color to form the grass.
Step 11: Finishing It Up With Cute Little Flowers
With the help of an earbud, imprint little dots on grass, of different colors to create flowers.
Ready! An Adorable Cat Painting, In No Time!
So, what do you think? Amazing, right! Just a few steps and you are ready with an adorable cat painting. You can also blend in your own creativity and ideas. Maybe add a few kittens, more butterflies, etc. Take a sheet of paper and paint your mind. You can also insert a sky, some clouds or trees etc., as you like.
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Materials needed:
- A piece of paper (any paper will do in a pinch, but we really like these papers from Fabriano)
- A graphite pencil
- Eraser
- Fine Liner
You’ll follow simple step by step instructions that will make this drawing easy and fun. Take a look at all of our steps here:
Section 1: Drawing a Cat’s Body Structure
For these steps, we’re going to use a piece of paper (we recommended these Fabriano Papers), a soft graphite pencil (either a mechanical drawing pencil or classic wood pencil is fine) from the gradation HB to 4B, and an eraser.
Step 1: Draw a circle
In the lower middle of our canvas, we’re going to draw a big circle, this will be the middle part of our cat’s body so we’ll have to make it according to the size you want your cat to have.
Step 2: Draw a smaller circle above
This will be our cat’s head, the smaller circle is about ⅔ of the first one we drew, we’ll have to place it on top of our first circle making sure the side edges of the circles are in line with each other.
Step 3: Draw another big circle under
This circle will be our cat’s lower part and will be as big as we want our cat’s belly to be. The circle should be slightly moved to the right so our cat’s pose won’t look stiff.
Step 4: Draw two curved lines for the cat’s neck
For this step, it’s very important that we connect the intersection between our two circles with the right side of our cat’s head (our left) with a curvy line. we’ll have to do the same for the other side of the neck, drawing a short but curve line to connect the middle of our first circle with the head.
Step 5: Draw a football-like shape
This shape will be the back leg of our cat (the other one is hidden by the fur) make sure not to make it wider than half of the size of our third circle, and it should align with the base of it.
Step 6: Draw a cucumber-like shape
This shape will be the structure for the upper arm of our cat, make sure that it aligns with our first circle top as shown.
Step 7: Draw an elongated bean-like shape
This will be our cat’s forearm, make sure to make it slightly turned in the opposite direction of the upper arm shape since our cat is in repose.
Step 8: Repeat Step 6
Yes, draw another cucumber-like shape to make the other upper arm of our cat, take into consideration that some part of it will be hidden from our view by the fur and the cat’s body.
Make sure to align it with the side of the head and the other arm.
Step 9: Repeat Step 7
Yes, make another elongated bean-like shape to form the other forearm of our cat.
Step 10: Draw a triangle-like blob
This will be our cat’s lower leg. make sure it’s aligned with the thigh that we drew in step 5 and that it doesn’t go below the cat’s body level.
Step 11: Draw three horizontal bean-like shapes.
These will be our cat’s feet and paws, draw the front ones the same size and the back one slightly larger.
Step 12: What about the other leg?
To figure out how the hidden leg will change our drawing, let’s imagine a leg shape (like the one we already drew) and erase the parts that are either hidden by the body or paws, that way we’ll be able to know what to shade and what to line.
Step 13: Let’s draw the ears!
For this step, we’ll have to find the middle of our head, and calculate where our ears will go. Remember, the size of the space between the middle of our head and each ear needs to be the same.
Section 2: Drawing a Cat’s Face Structure
In this section we’re going to focus on the cat’s face and establishing it’s structure.
Step 14: Find the center of the cat’s head.
Find the center of our cat’s head and draw another line parallel to the one we already drew.
Step 15: Pull two soft lines from the ears to the bottom of the head.
All the cats are different, some have bigger ears, some have bigger jaws, so depending on the face of the cat we want to draw, we need to pull two lines from the ears to the bottom of the face, making the space between them as broad as we want or cat’s jaw to be.
Step 16: Draw the eyes
Equally distanced from the center and slightly close to the lines we drew, we draw two big spheres (also according to the eye size we want our cat to have) that will be the base for our eyes cat.
Step 17: Draw half of the nose
From the side of the eyes we drew, pull two small diagonal lines one bigger than the other, the longer one will be the nose bridge and the smaller will be the nose.
Do these lines accordingly to what you want the cat to look like.
Step 18: Draw the Other Half of the Cat’s Nose
Repeat step 17 in the opposite direction to complete the nose shape of our cat.
Step 19: Draw the Upper Mouth Lines
Trace a small line between the eyes right in the center of our cat’s face (the line we drew in step 15) and pull two diagonals down connecting them to the curves we drew in step 16. That will be the upper lines for our cat’s mouth.
Step 20: Complete the nose and define the mouth lines.
Draw a small line on the top of the nose shape we drew before and complete the mouse with an inverted “Y” shape, making also two curved lines that connect with the upper mouth lines from step 18.
Step 21: Draw the Jawline and the Corner of the eyes
Now it’s looking more and more like a proper cat! draw the upper and lower corners of the eyes and draw a small curve for the lower jaw of our cat.
Step 22: Draw the pupils and hint at the tail shape
Draw two small ovals in the cat’s eyes where you want the pupils to be and make a curve to hint where the tail of our cat should be.
Step 23: Define the tail shape
Draw three circles at the beginning of the tail, at the middle, and at the end, then connect them with lines to make the tail’s structure.
