Make your own comic strip with anime-like cats.
Drawing an anime cat is a creative way to replicate comic book images. Manga anime cats are Japanese cartoons with familiar, human-like features. Create the details of your cat by first generating the outline. Once the outline is in place you can explore various nuances and details. Practice sketching anime illustrations on notebook paper before moving to professional quality, non-reflective drawing paper.
Instructions
1. Draw the outline of the head. Sketch a medium shaped oval near the top of the page. Extend two short streaks upward off the top of the head to act as outlines for ears. Draw a vertical line down the center of the face -- extending just past the chin. Draw two, short horizontal lines through the vertical line to act as eye guides. Drop down just below the chin and draw a short downward right angle -- in the shape of a boomerang -- on the vertical line. Draw two minor upward loops -- in the shape of an upside down bird wings -- below the "boomerang". The boomerang and birds wing-sketches indicate the nose and mouth.
2. Sketch the body. Draw a short line down from the base of the head to act as the neck outline. Draw a large upper body and midsection -- in the shape of a heart. Draw two vertical lines down from the base of the midsection and loop two inward curved lines off the side of the vertical lines to act as legs. Draw a wide, looping tail, beginning at the back of the legs and curving upward.
3. Draw eyes and fur. Draw two, thick downward curves between the eye guides. Connect each curve with its own short horizontal line to complete the eye outlines. Dot the area just above the mouth to give texture to the area where the cat will have whiskers. Begin adding fur outlines to the body outlines. For example, sketch a sharp, jagged outline off the base of the chin and tail to indicate fuzzy fur.
4. Finish drawing the ears, paws, nostrils and fur. Draw two wide curves down from each ear line to create two ears in the shape of wobbly triangles. Loop small lower case letter "m's" off the base of the leg outline to indicate the image of looking at paws from a straight-on point of view. Dot the nostrils for the nose and add eyebrow lines. Draw more fur inside the midsection outline and around the legs.
5. Draw whiskers hanging off the top of the mouth. Scribble in eyeballs and finish the tail outline. Give the cat nuance by adding short diagonal lines over the ears, face and body -- giving the fur texture and depth. Erase any unnecessary initial trace outlines and shade the cat in -- whatever colors you like.
