How to draw a sad kitten

In this lesson we will look at how to draw a sad kitten / cat with a pencil step by step. A very detailed lesson on drawing a kitten with a pencil. You will learn how to draw correctly the eyes of a cat (cat), the nose of a cat, the muzzle with a pencil in great detail.

1. In order for us to draw a kitten, we must first draw the auxiliary elements that will help with the scaling and proportions of the head. To do this, draw a circle and guide curves for the direction of the head and the level of the eyes.

2. Mark the dimensions of the eyes with dashes. The one that is closer will be larger than the one that is further away. Mark the size of the nose and the level of the mouth.

3. Gradually begin to draw the eyes of a kitten.

4. Draw the nose and mouth of the kitten.

5. Draw the ears and neck.

6. With small, jerky lines, show the head of a small cat.

7. Erase all unnecessary auxiliary lines. The drawing should look like this.

8. Draw the pupils.

9. Paint over the dark areas of the eyes, then draw highlights. After that shade your eyes.

10. Shade the nose a little and show the hairs of the mouth with separate small curves.

11. Add more hair. This is done using separate lines in the direction of hair growth. Also show where the mustache grows from.

12. Draw a mustache. In principle, this can be completed. If you have the strength and patience you can continue. You can use different techniques, we will have the simplest one, which was used to draw a sleeping kitten. We shade the dark areas in the ears and in the neck area, you can shade them with a cotton wool or a special stick into a homogeneous mass. Then we impose darker lines on top, imitating wool in the direction of its growth.

13. Curved lines show the volume of the pillow on which the kitten's head lies.