How To Draw A Kitten

This tutorial will show you how to draw a kitten. If there is one thing the internet can never have too much of it’s cats! In this tutorial I will show you how to draw a cute kitty cat.

Step 1

The first thing we will do is draw guidelines for our cat’s body. None of these first lines will be part of our final drawing.

The head is kind of shaped like a turnip. It’s rounded at the top but comes to a point at the bottom.

We can add horizontal and vertical lines to make sure the eyes, nose, and mouth are placed correctly. These lines can be a slight angle so that we can make the cat’s head lean to the left.

Step 2

Draw the guidelines for the cat’s body.

For this drawing, you only need to draw her two front paws and part of one back paw.

Step 3

We can now begin erasing the guidelines we drew and replace them with what will be our final drawing. You may want to leave them slightly visible and draw over them.

Draw the kitten’s ears on both sides of her head.

Then draw the cat’s fur. By using haphazardly jagged lines we can make our kitten look fuzzy.

Step 4

Replace the rest of the guidelines with fur on your kitten drawing.

Step 5

Draw the kitten’s eyes, nose, and mouth. This is where the intersecting lines we drew earlier come in handy.

Draw the eyes as two circles but leave them slightly flat a the top. Place them in the middle of the head but leave enough room between them for another imaginary circle. The pupils of the cat’s eyes are shaped like footballs standing on their points. You can add a couple of extra circles in each eye to create the illusion of light bouncing off them.

The nose is shaped like a triangle with rounded corners.

Step 6

Draw fur inside each of the kitten’s ears.

Add a line of fur under her neck and on her chest. This will show that the hair is layered.

Also, draw lines on her paws to separate her individual toes.

Step 7

Color in the cat’s pupils and nose. Make the lines around her eyes thick.

cat drawing in pencil

Draw fur around the cat’s body. This makes her look extra fuzzy.

Step 9

Add a shadow under the cat and in each ear.

To finish up don’t forget to add her whiskers! This will be the last step of the How to Draw a Kitten lesson.

Congratulations on finishing the How To Draw A Kitten tutorial! To complete your drawing feel free to color it with colored pencils or markers.