How to Draw a Cat
Grab a pencil (NOT a pen!) and some paper, and let’s learn how to draw a realistic cat! You’ll start with simple shapes to outline the cat’s head and body. Then you’ll enhance your cat drawing by adding intricate details like the face, ears, whiskers, and tail.
Once you’ve finished, learn how to draw a bear, cartoon dogs, or an elephant.
STEP 1: To start drawing a cat, make a small circle for the cat’s head. Then add a larger circle below it and a larger one still below that for the cat’s body.
STEP 2: Join the circles together with a smooth, curving line to draw the cat’s neck and back on the right-hand side and another on the left for the cat’s neck.
STEP 3: Erase the overlapping lines inside the cat’s body. To draw the cat’s first front leg, add an oval overlapping its body and another smaller oval below that. Draw a smooth line around the ovals for the outline of the cat’s leg.
Step 4: Erase the overlapping lines in the cat’s leg and the line on its chest. Add the cat’s other front leg by drawing a line from the cat’s chest around the first leg. Now draw an oval overlapping the cat’s front leg and bottom for the back paw.
Step 5: Draw the cat’s face and ears, copying the shapes shown here as closely as possible. Erase any unnecessary lines so you are left with a complete cat shape.
Step 6: Draw long smooth lines coming from the nose for the cat’s whiskers. Add a curving tail and erase a small section of the outline where it joins the body. Add some wiggly fur lines on the chest and ears.
Get this cat drawing project and many more in “How to Draw Animals” by Michael Garton. (Michael O’Mara Books, $14.99 softcover. Ages 6 and up.)
I will like to learn more
I love this!
Thank you please post more drawings of cats
the cat in the drawing looks like mine its so cute.
AMAZING! I did ok the first time, the second time i did it it was great.
soooooooo goood helps alot
Wow, nice drawing
I love your cat 🐈⬛ 🐱🦝🦢🦢🐈
i drew this so good lol!
My cat head is fine but the body looks like a roller skate💀
thanks this helped my poster
Cool thanks for helping meowt get it😻
bad and I hate to draw a ca his way it’s so hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do I cat? ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
im glad you did this! really helpful
How do it with marker
how do you make that good of a cat like that.serciously bruh >:(ugh
wow its helpful
my cat is bad but yours is good
wow nice drawing
This was very useful, now I know how to draw a cat lol. 😀😀😂😂
I never knew I was really good at drawing until I found this, THANK YOU!!!
SO HARD
No! It’s easy
I know
No it isnt 😂
its very easy once you try,it might not look the same as the drawing
bad
Thank you!
Nice work😃!!
I can’t do it
without doing it terribly
i know you
Thanks, it was really helpful🙏🏻😀😁😁
Thanku so much for the cat
Cats might be used for evil deeds but they are better than dogs
Thanks my cat is terrible but yours is nice
Yes mine looks HORRIBLE. But the steps are easy to follow.
My mom love cats. So do I!
I love. Cat’s!
Wow ,Intresting
I really love cats becos my cats died
I loved how easy it was to draw a cat. Thank you so much for showing me an easy way to draw a cat
Thank you.
Meowy Christmas :3 ( This was a drawing I used for a Christmas Card )
Thanks a lot, now I know how to draw a cat.
Thank you so much
IT IS THAT EASY IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO DRAW A CAT BERFORE THIS
Wow! It really helped me.
My cat looks sooo cool compared to the ones I drew a couple of months ago. Thanks for helping meowt. Hahaha! Get it?
I might hang this on my bedroom wall! Thanks. I really appreciate it!
My cat turned out to look like a Siamese cat but at least u can tell…
Mine looked like fire paw! I’m a warrior cats lover
I luv cats sooo much!!! Thank u for letting me know how to draw them. My cats used to look like a 5 year old. No offense lil´ sis!
Fool
I know it’s very very easy
This was really helpful!
-a purrson who loves cats
It looked amazing after I finished :):):)
Nice pun
I’m confused… I don’t get it
It is very easy
thank you this helped me a lot
Same
yo that cat is cool
I changed it a bit to make the cat turn away from you, but thanks for helping me get the basic shape!
You made it easy. Thanks
wow it really helps
What do I do?
It was pretty helpful!
Never understood how to draw cats. This helped a lot!
– Random girl who reads BoysLife
🙂
now I find drawing cats much easier! ( I love cats )
It really helped me!
For 20 years I thought cats start from ovals!!
It is awesome because I got an A+ for my art project
This was a very useful way of drawing a cat. Thanks!
Thanks. It helped me SO MUCH!
Thank you so much! It helped me draw the cat a little better then what I can draw without it.
Had a lot of funny doing cats with my 6 year old daughter (who loves cats!)…thanks!
I love the app
I used it to draw my cat it’s amazing!
Cool
nice i love it actually i am a artist i mostly love to see paintings but any how it is nice
when i drew it.it looked like a raccoon
mine is ok
I ❤ it! Can U do a dog?
Right
This is amazing. But when I drew mine it was okay but it looked like a racoon
my cat have rat face
my cat looks really fat.
I did this in paint it was really easy (5yo)
i know me to
Easy Peasy …
It didn’t work for me i dont know why…… this aint that good you need to explain more!.😏😖
my cat looks like its haunted.
I think this really helped
needs more step, also mine is kind of fat.
Super helpful! Thanks! 👍
cool
NO IMAGE FOR EXAMPLE LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT
Great
its hard i messed up 10 TIMES
Drawing a cat is going to be really hard to draw.
i hate this its so hard!!!
cool
sort of easy.
ha ha not for me
Cat
Thanks you’re amazing !
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R’ p
its not hard
this is # FUN
mine looks like a kidney bean
WOW! This helped so much, thank you.
very cool i like cats
What the heck
it looks amazing. thanks for the help
Draw lightly, then darken.
Very good turnout-although I would draw lightly and then darken when done.
Mine looks like a cow.
Neat
needs more details though
WOW!!!
I’m still drawing it but I almost done by the way I like it
I loved it
wow! i can not do it.
wow…
it lookd great
thanks
at the beginning it looks like a slanted snowman:)
Yay second comment. Lookes like the steps don’t work at first,then does
i had no idea that a catwas so ez to make
Cats start from circles??!!??!!!!