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How to Draw a Cat

how to draw a realistic 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.

the head is step 1STEP 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.

the neck and back is step 2 for how to draw a catSTEP 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.

the front leg is step 3STEP 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.

the other front leg is step 4 for how to draw a catStep 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.

face and ears are step 5Step 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.

whiskers and tails is the final step=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.)

131 Comments on How to Draw a Cat

  1. I will like to learn more

  2. I love this!

  3. Someone who always love cats // September 30, 2024 at 12:14 pm // Reply

    Thank you please post more drawings of cats

  4. the cat in the drawing looks like mine its so cute.

  5. AMAZING! I did ok the first time, the second time i did it it was great.

  6. slayqueen! // June 28, 2024 at 11:01 pm // Reply

    soooooooo goood helps alot

  7. Wow, nice drawing

  8. I love your cat 🐈‍⬛ 🐱🦝🦢🦢🐈

  9. i drew this so good lol!

  10. Nekogotmeow // May 5, 2024 at 1:11 pm // Reply

    My cat head is fine but the body looks like a roller skate💀

  11. meowcat2.0 // March 6, 2024 at 9:08 am // Reply

    thanks this helped my poster

  12. Cool thanks for helping meowt get it😻

  13. bad and I hate to draw a ca his way it’s so hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  14. How do I cat? ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯

  15. meow heart lol // November 17, 2023 at 10:21 am // Reply

    im glad you did this! really helpful

  16. How do it with marker

  17. wow its helpful

  18. my cat is bad but yours is good

  19. wow nice drawing

  20. This was very useful, now I know how to draw a cat lol. 😀😀😂😂

  21. - Some Girl who likes dogs better than cats // November 11, 2022 at 2:57 pm // Reply

    I never knew I was really good at drawing until I found this, THANK YOU!!!

  22. Thank you!

  23. Nice work😃!!

  24. hacker000 // May 24, 2022 at 2:15 pm // Reply

    i know you

  25. Thanku so much for the cat

  26. Cats might be used for evil deeds but they are better than dogs

  27. Thanks my cat is terrible but yours is nice

  28. My mom love cats. So do I!

  29. I love. Cat’s!

  30. Wow ,Intresting

  31. I really love cats becos my cats died

  32. I loved how easy it was to draw a cat. Thank you so much for showing me an easy way to draw a cat

  33. Thank you.

  34. Meowy Christmas :3 ( This was a drawing I used for a Christmas Card )

  35. Thanks a lot, now I know how to draw a cat.

  36. Wow! It really helped me.

  37. My cat looks sooo cool compared to the ones I drew a couple of months ago. Thanks for helping meowt. Hahaha! Get it?

  38. I might hang this on my bedroom wall! Thanks. I really appreciate it!

  39. Cat lover :3 // October 13, 2020 at 2:11 pm // Reply

    My cat turned out to look like a Siamese cat but at least u can tell…

  40. 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!

  41. This was really helpful!

    -a purrson who loves cats

  42. It looked amazing after I finished :):):)

  43. I’m confused… I don’t get it

  44. thank you this helped me a lot

  45. yo that cat is cool

  46. I changed it a bit to make the cat turn away from you, but thanks for helping me get the basic shape!

  47. You made it easy. Thanks

  48. wow it really helps

  49. What do I do?

  50. Random girl Who is Asthetic✨ // June 22, 2020 at 9:27 pm // Reply

    It was pretty helpful!

  51. Meowtastica // June 5, 2020 at 2:32 pm // Reply

    Never understood how to draw cats. This helped a lot!

    – Random girl who reads BoysLife

  52. Kitten Queen // May 16, 2020 at 7:11 pm // Reply

    now I find drawing cats much easier! ( I love cats )

  53. It really helped me!

  54. Money dude // May 3, 2020 at 12:32 am // Reply

    For 20 years I thought cats start from ovals!!

  55. Love#cool // May 3, 2020 at 12:25 am // Reply

    It is awesome because I got an A+ for my art project

  56. Who do think it is? // April 30, 2020 at 7:57 pm // Reply

    This was a very useful way of drawing a cat. Thanks!

  57. Thanks. It helped me SO MUCH!

  58. Thank you so much! It helped me draw the cat a little better then what I can draw without it.

  59. Had a lot of funny doing cats with my 6 year old daughter (who loves cats!)…thanks!

  60. I love the app

  61. I used it to draw my cat it’s amazing!

  62. nice i love it actually i am a artist i mostly love to see paintings but any how it is nice

  63. when i drew it.it looked like a raccoon

  64. mine is ok

  65. I ❤ it! Can U do a dog?

  66. my cat have rat face

  67. my cat looks really fat.

  68. I did this in paint it was really easy (5yo)

  69. Easy Peasy …

  70. my cat looks like its haunted.

  71. needs more step, also mine is kind of fat.

  72. Super helpful! Thanks! 👍

  73. NO IMAGE FOR EXAMPLE LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT

  74. Great

  75. Drawing a cat is going to be really hard to draw.

  76. i hate this its so hard!!!

  77. Thanks you’re amazing !

    R’ p

  78. the kool kid // October 6, 2018 at 4:28 pm // Reply

    this is # FUN

  79. mine looks like a kidney bean

  80. WOW! This helped so much, thank you.

  81. iji nintendogs ds // February 17, 2018 at 1:24 pm // Reply

    very cool i like cats

  82. What the heck

  83. it looks amazing. thanks for the help

  84. Draw lightly, then darken.

  85. Very good turnout-although I would draw lightly and then darken when done.

  86. Mine looks like a cow.

  87. needs more details though

  88. Cat lover 123 // January 26, 2013 at 8:19 pm // Reply

    I’m still drawing it but I almost done by the way I like it

  89. I loved it

  90. wow! i can not do it.

  91. it lookd great

  92. thanks

  93. at the beginning it looks like a slanted snowman:)

  94. Yay second comment. Lookes like the steps don’t work at first,then does

  95. i had no idea that a catwas so ez to make

  96. Cats start from circles??!!??!!!!

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