If you enjoy drawing cats and looking for some inspiration to step up your game, you’ve come to the right place!
In this guide, you’ll find 19 special cat drawing ideas to consider for your next sketch, whether you’re looking for a realistic drawing or a more cartoonish approach.
1. Simple Lines
This simple, clean drawing of a cat is extremely easy to replicate despite being fairly accurate if you’re going for a cartoonish look.
2. Welcome Home
This watercolor drawing, titled “Welcome Home” depicts a lovely scene of a calico cat gazing and showing its beautiful pattern while sitting up. Watercolors are ideal for creating a realistic fur pattern.
3. Caturday
This surreal cat drawing looks like a commercial poster from the 19th century, and the black and white tones match this energy perfectly.
Caturday is an excellent inspiration if you’re trying to draw a catch with a touch of elegance and bizarreness!
4. Dream with a Cat
This unique painting by Raphael Vavasseur shows a cat and a woman cuddling and sleeping together as if they’re sharing the same dream.
The drawing style is quite realistic but still simple to master if you have the right set of skills.
5. UFO Catch
This cartoon-style drawing is both funny and incredibly adorable. It shows some kittens getting lured by an alien spaceship using a slice of pizza.
This abstract drawing style is perfect for printing on products and can also be used as wall posters if you add some vibrant colors.
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6. Looking to the Stars
Watercoloring with different shades of black can be a bit tricky but the results are extremely rewarding, and that’s what this idea is all about.
The “Looking at the Stars” drawing shows an affordable black cat wandering in the night sky.
7. Geometric Lined Cat
This unique drawing style is both easy to follow and incredibly artistic. To recreate this style, you’ll need to draw the outline of a cat, including its ears, eyes, and nose.
After that, you’ll use a ruler to draw several guiding lines inside the drawing, then follow up with parallel lines to create the final look.
8. Watercolor Kitties
As previously established, watercolors are the key to creating a unique translucent effect while painting your drawings.
This drawing shows you how you can make an incredibly cute painting of kitties with the right choice of colors and art style.
9. Simple Cats Illustration
If you’re all about adorable cats but you want a simple way to draw this, this style would be ideal for you. The photo shows a tiny kitten sitting on its paws while its parent is watching it.
10. Move the brain
This one is another excellent drawing idea that shows the impact of using watercolors and how they perfectly blend with their surroundings.
If you look closely you’ll notice that the painting embraces paper color to display the white parts of the cat, which gives a mesmerizing appeal to final results.
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11. Kitten Sketch
If you enjoy simple sketch art, you’re going to adore this one. This sketch shows the guiding lines you’ll need to follow to create a unique cartoon-style kitten with curious eyes and a happy smile.
12. Bonk on Tater Tot
As the name suggests, this wholesome painting shows a brave tiny kitten with a cast on both its front legs.
The art style perfectly compliments the messy look of the kitten’s fur coat and shows the effect of vibrant colors in bringing an image to life and making it more impactful.
13. Floral cat
This one is among the simplest ways to draw a cat with watercolor, especially if you’re going for a uniquely textured cat.
14. Overlapping Lined Mom and Baby Cat
If you liked the previous geometry-inspired entry, you’re going to love this one. In this image, the mother cat is lined horizontally while the baby cat is lined vertically.
The overall design speaks a thousand words about the eternal bond between kittens and their mothers.
15. Face up
This one is similar to the “Welcome Home” painting above, which was made by the same artists.
What’s amazing about this painting is that it uses a colored background and highlights the white fur of the cat depicted, which is a smart way to deal with white hues while water-coloring.
16. Watching a Flower
This image gives us another perspective while drawing cats using simple lines. In this drawing, the cat is looking downwards and curiously watching a small flower.
As you can see, the secret here is to draw the cat’s head and then work on its body using as few strokes as possible.
17. Pencil Drawing
Drawing with pencils requires a lot of outlining before polishing and coloring, and that photo shows you the best way to achieve that if you’re going for realism.
18. Welcome Back
This one is one of the most adorable kitty smiles I’ve seen in a long time! It’s also an excellent display of the qualities of watercolors and how they’re ideal while drawing calico cats and breeds with textured fur.
19. Slept Well
Last but not least, this one shows you how to draw one of the most adorable moments in any cat parent’s day: watching their beloved kitty wake up and stretch after snoozing for a few hours!
Wrap Up
This marks the end of today’s guide that walks you through some of the best cat and most affordable cat drawing ideas out there.
As you can see, when it comes to drawing cats, the sky is your limit, as you can draw them in a wide variety of styles, depending on your desired outcome and skill level.
I’ve been living with cats since 2008 and I can confidently say I have more feline friends than humans lol. I currently live with 5 cats in different life stages; two of them are less than one year old, one is 2-ish years old and the oldest two are 9-ish years old. I’ve developed a strong bond with cats over the years and I’m eager to share my experience through this blog. You can learn more about my cats here.