Creativity for the development of kids is extremely useful. Even a few dashes or crooked circles made by one's own hand will bring the child to unimaginable delight. Drawing will not only give a wonderful mood, but also help you perceive the world around you correctly. In addition, such a pastime is useful for children's fingers, contributes to their rapid development.
Learning to draw a kittenVery often, having learned to draw simple elements (circle, lines, sun, flower, etc.), a child tries to depict something more complex, for example, to draw a beloved kitten. Of course, on the first try, he fails, so parents should help their child. But it happens that mom and dad do not know how to draw at all. In this case, you just need to find information on how to draw a kitten, and be happy to do drawing together with the baby. First, you should carefully observe the kitten and decide in what position you will depict it. Little kittens are extremely active and do not sit in one place for a long time. Therefore, the pose will have to be reproduced from memory. Also decide what you will draw: with a pencil, paints or felt-tip pens. Many do not know how to draw kittens with a pencil, but believe me, it is not so difficult, you will definitely succeed.
Let's start the creative process
In order for everything to turn out right, and the drawing to please your little artist, be sure to use the information on how to draw a kitten in stages.
First, you should make a general sketch of the shape of the body. They may not be very accurate. The main thing is to correctly convey the proportions of the head, legs and body. The head should not be large, but not small either, and the paws should be the same in thickness and length.
Second phase
It is necessary to make a more detailed drawing of the paws and muzzle. Want to know about how quickly? Then concentrate and apply the necessary details with light strokes. The most important point is the drawing of the cat's eyes, nose and mouth, if they work out, then you don't have to worry, then everything will go by itself.
Make sure what you draw is realistic. The pattern may be slightly different, but still the main features of the body must match. Only after that, you and your little artist can proceed to the final stage. It is necessary to carefully finish the eyes, then the nose and mouth. After that, you can finish the entire muzzle, adding a long thin antennae and adding small frequent strokes to the fur. That's all, the pet drawing is ready. Now you know how to draw a kitten quickly and correctly. But the most important thing is that you did it together with your baby. Who knows, perhaps in many years he will become a famous artist and will talk about his first drawing. If you are thinking about how to draw a kitten in a simpler way, then do not be afraid to experiment, the main thing is that you and your baby enjoy this process!
Master class on drawing cats in sitting and sleeping poses step by step with a photo.
Gorbova Nadezhda Yuryevna, teacher of MBOU DOD "Children's School of Arts" of the Yaransky district of the Kirov region, the city of Yaransk.
Description: this master class shows a step-by-step drawing of a ginger cat sitting and sleeping in watercolor. It also shows the step-by-step drawing of a Siamese cat using the raw technique.
Purpose: the master class is intended for fine art teachers, teachers of additional education, parents and children from 7 years old who want to make beautiful work for an exhibition, interior decoration or just for a gift.
Target: making a drawing of a ginger cat in a sitting and sleeping poses, making a drawing in the technique of a raw Siamese cat.
Tasks:
- consolidation of knowledge, skills and abilities of drawing an animal with the help of simple geometric shapes;
- further improvement of watercolor skills;
- fixing the skills of arranging an animal on a sheet of paper;
- consolidation of skills in color science;
- fostering love for animals;
- development of attention and accuracy.
Materials: pencil, eraser, watercolor, sheet of A4 watercolor paper, squirrel brushes No. 2,6,8, white gouache, rag, jar of water.
Hello dear guests!
This master class is dedicated to drawing one of your favorite pets - a cat.
Cats - children of the universe -
Poems are dedicated.
Cats are cute creatures
Graceful and light!
Egyptians and beyond
They could be deified
So many years have passed since then
Do not return the centuries of those back.
But centuries are not a burden to them,
Cats don't care about years
After all, they have in our time
The tail is a pipe, but life is the key!
Cats just have a mass:
Bring coziness and comfort into the house.
Yet the cat is a princess,
Well, the cat, no doubt, lord!
Cats and cats are varied in color. Today I propose to draw a red tabby and Siamese cat.
The watercolor technique is not simple, it does not tolerate fading and it is not always possible to correct a mistake. But we will not be afraid, and if the drawing does not work out, we will take a new sheet and try again.
Progress:
1. Let's imagine the cat's body as an oval, and the head as a ball. The body is placed at an angle and shifted relative to the center of the sheet to the right. There should be margins on the sides. We leave a little more space at the bottom than at the top.
2. Draw the front, hind legs and tail.
3. We begin to draw a muzzle. The nose is similar to the letter "T", the eyes are slightly oval and are located at an angle. Let's increase the breast a little and bend the back.
4. Paint over the muzzle with the color of golden ocher. Cold pink nose. Leave white spaces around the eyes.
5. We outline the dark areas with red ocher.
6. Paint over the ears with dark pink. Draw stripes (pattern) on the muzzle in brown.
7. We paint over the entire body with shades of yellow ocher and red ocher and, until this layer is dry, immediately draw a striped pattern.
8. Then we will depict the texture of the wool, drawing with small strokes in the direction of hair growth.
9. Let's start drawing the muzzle. We emphasize the nostrils and the contour of the mouth with a pink-lilac color. Let's draw dots from where the mustache grows. Then we draw a yellow eyeball, then a black pupil in the form of an elongated oval dry, leaving a white highlight. Circle the eye around the contour with a pink-lilac color.
10. Then draw a mustache in pink-lilac color, and repeat on top of them with white gouache. With white gouache we will paint on the hairs on the ears of our cat.
11. You can also emphasize the fur on the cat's chest with white, so it will look even more voluminous.
Now I propose to draw a sleeping ginger cat, curled up in a ball, using the raw technique.
1. Draw an oval
2. Outline the tail, right hind leg and round muzzle.
3. Wet the sheet well with cold water. The sheet should absorb water well. Before you start writing, make sure that there are no puddles on the sheet of paper. Daylight is cold, so we will go through the bright places in blue and pink.
4. We paint over the remaining places with shades of yellow ocher, red ocher. When dry, the color in watercolor is very lightened, so take a thicker paint on a wet brush.
5. Strengthen the shadows on the body, muzzle and under the tail.
6. Draw a striped pattern.
7. As the paint dries, the tone brightens, so I will strengthen the shadow parts. If you drop clean water from the brush next to fresh paint, you will get interesting stains.
How to draw in the technique of raw Siamese cat.
1. On the right side of the sheet, draw an inverted drop. This will be the head and front legs. On the left side of the sheet, draw a semi-oval (the back of a cat).
2. Then we will draw a muzzle in more detail, outline a fluffy tail and paws.
3. The Siamese cat has a very interesting coat color. It casts blue, lilac and different shades of blue and brown. We begin to write from light to dark, after the sheet is well saturated with water. Puddles should not be on the surface of the sheet. We paint the chest with cold shades, interspersing warm ocher. Then brown shades back and paws.
4. We begin to write a muzzle. First, light shades of brown, then the tone is richer, and at the end we emphasize the center of the muzzle with dark blue.
Attention: we try so that the paint does not flood the eyes of the cat, we will write them in a dry, beautiful cornflower blue color!
5. Let's draw the wool on the breast and make the tail darker.
6. Select the central part of the muzzle even darker (the paint dries and brightens). With a dry brush, remove the paint on the cheeks a little so that they are lighter. Let's draw a nose more clearly. Lastly, we write the eyes: first in blue, and when it dries, we put narrow vertical pupils. At the end, we put highlights in the eyes and draw a mustache.
Taika is made of fur
Taika is made of fur
From desires and riddles.
A cat is not a dog
She has her own habits!
Someone's secret cannot be
Appreciates affection and care.
It was very hard
She is without a home in bad weather.
Taiko was invented by people
To come home from work,
Ironing sitting on the couch
Forgetting worries.
Taika comes to the house at night
Through the window on the first
She knows a lot of windows
Just be able to be true.
Cats are very beautiful and graceful pets that children adore. And little artists often ask mom or dad to draw their favorite pet on paper. And even if adults themselves do not have the talent of a painter, phased drawing will come to the rescue. Based on sequential schemes, even a five-year-old kid can create an image of an adult cat or a little mischievous kitten in the picture. At school age, children should be offered more intricate options, for example, the image of realistic cats and popular cartoon characters.
Age features of drawing a cat
It is advisable to teach a child to draw a cat from the age of five: it is at this age that the baby is already able to create a more or less believable image, so do not rush things.
Before embarking on the creative process, it is advisable to consolidate the knowledge of basic geometric shapes with your son or daughter (this will be needed in the process of work) and teach them how to depict them correctly. These are a circle and an oval, a triangle, a square and a rectangle.
To draw an animal well, the kid must be able to correctly depict geometric shapes.
Be sure to consider a live cat with a novice artist (as an option, a ceramic figurine or a realistic soft toy is suitable). At the same time, an adult focuses on the proportionality of the body, the ratio of the size of the head and torso, the location of the eyes, ears on the muzzle, etc.
If there is no real cat at home, then you can consider a realistic soft toy with your child.
Since preschool children do not yet understand proportions very well, drawing can be started with cartoon cats. They often have a disproportionately large head, cheerful coloring, a funny expression of the muzzle (smile, wide eyes, protruding tongue), dressed up in bows and other accessories.
Cartoon cats are distinguished by irregular proportions, cheerful coloring, a smile and other features.
With younger students, you can already start drawing realistic cats. Children already understand that the animal's head cannot be too big or small, the tail must be long (practically full-length). An adult should look at photographs of cats in various poses with a child: lying, sleeping, sitting, jumping. At the same time, attention is drawn to how the animal arches, how it folds its paws and tail.
The adult first discusses with the student in what position the cat can be drawn
The images of cartoon animals become more intricate: the adult teaches the child to give the cat a mood: surprise (wide-open mouth), sadness (corners of the mouth beveled down), thoughtfulness (pupils shifted to the side), fear (wide-open eyes). There are a lot of options here, because children's imagination knows no bounds.
Choice of tools and materials
Since a cat can be drawn in various techniques, a small artist will need various materials to work. These are colored pencils, wax crayons, felt-tip pens (many children love to outline them and emphasize details), gouache (since drawing a cat in watercolor already requires higher skill). In any case, you will need a sharply sharpened simple pencil and an eraser (to correct defects and erase auxiliary lines).
As a basis, you should prepare A4 white paper or colored cardboard (if the baby draws with gouache).
How to draw a cat step by step with a pencil
Introduction to the animalistic genre of painting should begin with simple schemes for drawing animals. One of these options is a cat from circles. An adult shows a child a funny picture, where the animal's body mostly consists of round shapes (there are also triangles - ears and nose).
The cat in the picture has a round body, head and cheeks, the rest of the details complement them.
Then follows the image process according to the scheme. For example, to depict a sleeping cat, you need to draw a large circle, inside it - a small one (in the lower part, in contact with the large one, the ratio is approximately 1:2). Further, the image is complemented by the ears, nose, closed eyes and mustache of the animal. The image is completed by a long tail enveloping the body of the animal. It remains only to decorate the animal to your liking.
The circles in the drawing are the main parts of the cat's body, which are simply complemented by the necessary details.
When the child has mastered drawing round cartoon cats, you can move on to the next stage of mastery - a realistic image of an animal, for example, sitting. First, the head of the cat is indicated in the form of an oval. The oval will also be the basis of the body shape. Here it is necessary to observe proportions: vertically, the oval slightly exceeds the length of the twice taken oval of the head, and horizontally, the width of the body is slightly less than the twice taken oval of the head. In this case, the head and torso slightly overlap each other. The next stage is the drawing of the ears, front and hind legs of the animal.
At the first stage, the main parts of the animal's body are schematically indicated in the form of ovals, paws and ears are added
Then, with the help of auxiliary lines, the child depicts the face of a cat: nose, mouth, eyes and whiskers.
Eyes, nose, mouth and mustache are depicted with opra on auxiliary lines.
Auxiliary lines are combined into the final drawing, which remains only to be colored.
At the last stage, the cat is painted
Drawing a lying kitten is also not a very difficult task. Again, the head and torso are indicated by ovals, and then the muzzle, ears, paws and a beautiful tail are drawn. In this case, the head can be placed in profile and full face (this is not reflected in its shape). The child needs to be explained that in the first case only one eye is drawn (the second one is not visible).
The lying kitten is also drawn on the basis of ovals.
Photo gallery: step-by-step cat drawing schemes
A kitten from semicircles turns out to be very funny. The character of the cat is conveyed by the eyes. The most crucial stage is drawing the muzzle. Due to the observance of proportions, the cat turns out to be very realistic. This kitten resembles the cartoon character Smeshariki. The body of the cat is made up of circles of different sizes. The body of the cat is made up of ovals. , the task is to color it beautifully. The cartoon cat is drawn very simply. The body of the animal consists of circles, an oval and rectangles.
We draw a muzzle
After the child learns to depict cats in different poses, one should dwell in more detail on drawing the muzzle (full face, profile and three-quarter turn).
- First, an auxiliary shape is drawn - a circle, auxiliary lines are outlined (vertical and two horizontal). Large slanting eyes are depicted and necessarily hairs above them - this will make the cat's portrait more charming. The nose can be made like a heart. At the bottom of the circle there will be cheeks in the form of semicircles.
Auxiliary lines will help to make the muzzle proportional
- To make the cat more cute, you should shade the corners of the eyes. After that, the head is drawn to the desired shape: it expands on the sides of the circle. Ears are added.
The muzzle increases in width, and ears appear
- For maximum realism, it remains to shade the ears, sketch out the lines of the neck and draw the mustache. A cat has twelve hairs on each side (although this is not important in the figure).
An indispensable attribute of any cat is a long mustache.
- A cat's face can also be drawn based on a square. We draw a figure and divide it into four equal parts.
Square - the basis of the muzzle
- Focusing on the grid, proportionally represent the ears, eyes, mouth, cheeks and nose.
The grid allows you to maintain all proportions
- We erase the auxiliary lines.
We remove the auxiliary lines, and the muzzle becomes alive
- And now let's give freedom to imagination: paint the cat in natural shades or create an unexpected fantastic image.
Why not color with a fantasy pattern
Photo gallery: schemes for drawing a cat's face
The muzzle is drawn on the basis of a circle and auxiliary lines The eyes, nose and mouth are drawn in random order, without auxiliary lines Using the eyes and mouth, you can give the cat a certain character The image is made up of segments, which are then smoothed into smooth lines
Draw an anime cat
Anime is a popular Japanese animation. This is not just an animation, but a special perception of life, a cultural layer with its own unique symbols and types.
Children of all ages love the playful and charming anime cats. These are fantasy images with huge expressive eyes. The head is often larger than the body. Of course, the child with great enthusiasm will take up the image of this cute animal.
Anime cats are charming and playful, their indispensable attribute is huge expressive eyes
You can offer a young animal artist the following algorithm:
- First, the body of a sitting cat is depicted: a large head with ears, a torso (teardrop-shaped oval), paws in the form of ovals and circles, and a neat tail.
The head is almost the same size as the body.
- The most responsible occupation is the drawing of the muzzle. This will require auxiliary lines. We depict huge eyes (the size of the ears, while we denote the pupils and sparks in the eyes) and a wide-open mouth. At this stage, we also add a mustache, a drawing of ears and fingers on the paws.
It is the muzzle that gives the anime cat a unique playful character.
- At the end of the work, we erase the auxiliary lines and color the kitten to our liking.
You can color the anime kitten as you wish
Photo gallery: step-by-step anime drawing schemes
A simple scheme for drawing - an almost symmetrical figure At the heart of the drawing - circles and ovals The highlight of the image - a tousled forelock and cheeks
Drawing Angela
A game for tablets and smartphones with talking cats - Tom and Angela is popular among modern children. A cute fluffy cat with anthropomorphic features (in a beautiful dress) may well become an object for drawing. Its distinguishing feature is its huge slanting eyes.
Children love to draw characters from their favorite cartoons and games.
The child can portray Angela in full growth in one or another position, or draw her portrait. Let's take a closer look at the last option.
- First, draw a circle with guide lines. Let's transform it into a cat's muzzle, slightly pointed downwards.
Angela's muzzle is slightly pointed down
- We depict neat (also pointed ears) and outline the eyes, nose and mouth.
Making the eyes very big
- And now we draw in detail the eyelids, pupils and iris of the eyes. We make the nose and mouth more expressive. Don't forget the flirty mustache. We designate the neck and shoulders.
Draw in detail the eyes, nose and mouth
gouache painting
To draw a fluffy beauty, it is quite possible to use gouache. This material is suitable even for very young artists: the paint does not need to be diluted with water (like watercolor), but simply dip it with a brush. The compositions are saturated, the color is perfectly visible even on colored paper. Working with gouache, it is easy to correct any mistake. In addition, the paint dries quickly, one color can be painted on top of another, and they do not mix.
Using gouache, you can get an interesting color of cat hair - for example, a mixture of shades of gray, pink and orange.
The adult reminds the child that it is better to use a thick brush to draw the silhouette of an animal, and a thinner brush to draw details.
- Younger students can be offered to portray a charming cat in the grass with gouache. First, with a simple pencil, a simple silhouette of the animal is outlined at the bottom of the sheet (it is located vertically). Then we draw a muzzle.
At the bottom of the sheet, we outline the silhouette of a cat, draw a muzzle
- With wide strokes we draw a background - grass and sky. We color the cat itself in gray.
To paint large areas use a thick brush
- We paint the eyes and make out the fur with a dry brush: use different shades of gray (mix it with black and white paint). When drawing a muzzle, we use the poke method with a wet brush.
When drawing fur, we use different shades of gray
- With white gouache we draw a mustache and finally correct the cat. Next, we finalize the background: we depict a forest in the distance and grass in the foreground. Composition completed.
Everyone loves cats! At least if you are on our site, then this is so. Sometimes you want to draw a funny cat, and sometimes like a real one. But not everyone has the talent of an artist. However, just as children are taught at school to draw in stages, so we can use a simple example to draw a cat. Just look how cute he is. And he wants you to draw him
First, draw a circle - this will be the head. It is with the simplest forms that we begin drawing in stages.
You can immediately draw the ears. Now it is already possible to draw the body. It expands from top to bottom, because the cat's legs are there. Let's not forget the tail. What will your cat be like? Well, now the most important and difficult thing is the eyes and muzzle ... It depends on the expression of the eyes whether your cat will be cheerful .. or sad ... Now it remains only to color it.
If everything worked out wonderfully for you, then you can move on to other options for drawing a cat in stages.
We often ask ourselves the question from the title when we really want to embody a cat in some product, but do not take a finished picture, but draw it ourselves. How to do this, there is no clear algorithm for anyone, we all have a different mindset, but still there are some relatively standard recommendations.
If your goal is to draw on a children's t-shirt or draw a stencil to create an original animal print t-shirt later, then limit yourself to the simplest, most concise option. For example, something like this, simple; drawing clearer forms, perhaps cartoon characters.
When creating such drawings, natural proportions can not be observed, the main thing for you is the character of the character, a couple of forms and features inherent only to him.
You can start drawing such a plan both from the main forms - the body, the head, and from the secondary ones, let's say, these are the eyes, ears, nose, etc.
To draw a cat with high quality, and not only a cat, you must already take into account the proportions of the body, muzzles. For example, how many times the width of the eye fits in the width of the entire muzzle - think over it in the same way, measure the rest of the picture.
And remember, to give the animal a more natural appearance, you do not need to make it symmetrical. Even with apparent ideality, animals, like people, have characteristic features: for example, one eyelid is slightly lower than the other, the mustache is unequal - it goes without saying, some strip on the skin is slightly longer or shorter.
If you have a cat at home, you probably know that a cat is different from a cat. And she is shorter in height and her muzzle is "neater", and not such a "brazen" look as a cat's. I already have a cat drawing lesson, but I decided to make another lesson dedicated to cats.
Let's try together draw a cat step by step with a simple pencil. At the last step, you need to color the cat drawing with colored pencils or paints. You can copy the coloring from "my" cat drawing made on the tablet, or you can color the last step of the drawing as you wish, so that the picture looks like your favorite cat.
If you fail to draw beautifully on your own, you can print (see point 7) specially prepared and enlarged pictures of a cat.
1. Simple contours of the shape of the torso and head
To make it easier for you draw a cat, you need to first make simple but important contours. They will help you in the future to maintain the proportions of the picture. Draw freeform two intersecting circles for the torso and a slightly higher circle for the head. Please note that the contour of the head is narrowed down. The muzzle of a cat is usually slightly elongated, while in a cat it is often round, like a saucer. Be sure to draw three small circles at the bottom for the cat's paws and two circles at the top of the torso.
2. We continue to draw the initial contours
It is important to draw exactly the first step, in the future it will only be necessary to add simple details to these contours, and then, by removing them with an eraser, we will get a beautiful drawing of a cat. First of all, draw the vertical lines of the cat's legs. It's not difficult at all, just note that they start from the neck. It is also easy to draw two tail lines and triangular ears on the head.
3. Remove extra contour lines from the cat drawing
And now you can remove the extra contour lines from the picture, and look at our cat, we got a real picture of a cat. It remains only to draw the details of the muzzle and torso. You see how easy it was to draw a cat using simple outlines.
4. Drawing detail
This step is very easy, look at my drawing of a cat and add the necessary strokes. Don't forget to only draw the eyes in detail and the claws on the paws.
5. Finish drawing the cat
If you decide to draw with a simple pencil, then you can use "my" coloring of the cat, using the simple pencil technique. But the picture will look much more beautiful if the cat is colored with colored pencils, of course, provided that your cat has a colorful, variegated color, and not pure white or black.
6. Drawing a cat on a graphics tablet
If you decide to draw a cat first with a simple pencil, and then color it with paints or colored pencils, you can use the coloring of this cat drawing, made by me on a graphics tablet.
Children love to draw animals, but most often the beloved cat becomes the object of drawings. Learn to draw a cat and you will be able to draw many other animals correctly such as tiger, leopard, cheetah and other felines.
The drawing of a rabbit is somewhat reminiscent of cat drawing. And if you can draw a cat correctly, drawing a rabbit will not be too difficult for you.
Drawing a cat "from life" is quite difficult, because it will not pose for you for too long, especially a frisky kitten. At best, you can only draw a couple of ears, so it's better to draw a cat from a photo.
The lion also belongs to the cat family, the same structure and proportions of the body, only the mane distinguishes the lion from other cats. There is one more difference. Lions live in a pride (families), and the cat "walks by itself."
Perhaps the tiger is most similar to a cat. The same proportions of the body, head. There are individual individuals of cats that look very similar to a tiger, only not a single cat has a tiger color.
