How To Draw A Cartoon Cat

How to draw a Cartoon Cat is a step by step drawing process that I created and I have collected all of the sketching process in a sequence of step by step illustrations for you to follow and try and draw your own Cartoon Cat. Of course this isn't an exhaustive look at drawing Cartoon Cats, but it's a start and one you can hopefully become inspired by to sketch up some Cartoon Cats of your own.

I did edit some parts of this as it would have looked even longer had I put every step by step drawing on here, but if you really want to see the full thing in video format, then here is the link to my video - How To Draw Cartoon Cat it's a silent video and you can pause it anytime you want if you missed a step and are following along.

The collection of images below shows the inital sketching stage on how to build up the body, so just try and have fun.

Now that you have the rough shape you can begin to define the elements of your Cat, such as the face and the fur around the Cat and darkening the pencil lines helps to achieve a clear drawing. This is also your chance to improve the bits you don't like and make the drawing as a whole become more presentable.

When adding the black furry stripes it suddenly makes your drawing look more Cat like and also adds elements of visual interest. Although don't make the designs too complicated try and make them as simple as possible so that when it comes to the coloring stage it's easier to lay down some broad color.

When I inked this drawing I used a gel ink pen which are always cheap and affordable to use and the trick is to go over the pencil lines but also improve the drawing along the way and if that means cleaning up some areas that need attention then do that in this stage.

Pilot ink pens are also good to use as are Sharpie markers, it's entirely up to you what ink pens you use though.

When coloring in this stage I used 4 main colors to achieve the finished color drawing effect.

A Black for the furry stripes all over the Cats body.

An Orange for the remaining fur on the Cat

A Yellow for the highlights on the Orange fur.

And a Pink for the nose and lip.

Below you can see the step by step process of the coloring stage and notice that after coloring with the orange I allowed some white space which would be for the yellow color highlights which help to blend the two colors together.