How to draw a smiling cat

My sister has a thing with cats. Well, I do to – 2 of this kind are running around my house as we speak. But she’s got something with a specific kind of smiling cats, which I’ll  show you at the end of this post…

Out final image will be:

• To draw the cat we’ll use a very common method of drawing – creating circles and shapes as a base for the final drawing, and then removing unneeded lines and adjusting others, to get the final drawing.
• Since we’ll be drawing and than deleting lines, I recommend using a pencil :)

Creating the base – Body Building

Draw a circle for the head, and a rounded shape for the body. Notice that the bigger body shape gets smaller as it gets closer to the head shape.

Now, add 2 triangles for the ears and 2 sets small circles for the feet: make sure that the ‘farther’ ear is just a bit smaller than the closer one (For the right perspective).

Than, connect the feet with the body with round shapes, and add a nice tail.

Removing unneeded line

Now we have lots of circles and shapes. With a few adjustments, we’ll find a cat hiding inside:

Delete all unneeded lines – These are the red lines in the following image (hope you used a pencil!). When done, you’ll probably get something like the cat on the right:

Face

It’s easy – find the center of the face, and just a bit left to it draw a triangle: that’s the nose. Now 2 circles for the eyes and add the mouth, and that’s it.

In my drawing the left eye is coming out of the face. It’s a cartoon, so it’s allowed :)  If you’re doing the same, just don’t forget to remove the face line which hide behind the eye, like the red line in the right cat image:

Colors!!

That’s it, you’ve got a cat! Give it nice colors, and it will be a happy one too!

A funnier cat…

The thing with my sister is that she likes a very specific kind of a caricatured cat. this one:

you’ve got to admit it’s a funny one  :)