Turn your photo into a drawing lesson

1

Sketch the basic shapes

Lightly draw a round head, ears, a pear-shaped body, paws and tail. Add two crossing lines inside the head.

2

Draw the outline

Go over the edge of the ears, head, raised paw, body and tail. Keep the light lines for now.

3

Add the face and details

Draw the eyes on each side of the vertical line, level with the horizontal one. Add the nose, mouth, whiskers, cheeks, paw pads and tail stripes.

4

Clean up and add details

Erase the crossing lines and extra sketch marks. Add forehead stripes and a small circle inside each eye. Fill the ovals above the eyes black.

5

Colour the cat evenly

No shading yet: grey fur, cream face and belly, pink ears, cheeks and paw pads. Fill the eyes black, leaving small white dots.

6

Add soft shadows

Shade under the head and along the body. Leave the white spots in the eyes untouched.