How to Draw Cat Girls
Cat girls are a popular form of anthropomorphism in Japanese Manga and Anime. The characteristics of cats themselves often are fused to the personality of these girls for comic effect. Silly gags such as distracting a cat girl with a moving object on a string are quite commonplace in this medium. Cat girls are also far more human than typical anthropomorphic characters. Often these girls have only a smattering of feline features such as pointed cat's ears and tails. Perhaps this is to help readers identify more with their characters and see them less as strange creatures than cute, occasionally furry humans.
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Instructions
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Draw the head with a large oval shape and attach the two cat ears to the head with triangular shapes. Create the guidelines for the facial details with a vertical line down the center of the face and three horizontal lines across the face. Draw the chest with a large oval. Attach two small ovals to the left and right side of the chest for shoulders. Attach a line to the end of the shoulders for the upper arm. Add a small circle for the elbow guideline at the end of the upper arm. Attach a diagonal line that goes up and toward the chest for the forearm. Add an oval to the end of this for the hand.
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Create the upper legs with two curved lines coming off the bottom left and right sides of the chest. Attach circles larger than the hands to the ends of these lines for knees. Add a diagonal line that heads away from the body for the lower legs. Add a triangle for the feet.
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Draw the facial details along the guidelines inside the face. Add the closed eyes with two curved lines on the top horizontal line. Add a sideways triangle for the nose on the second horizontal line and add the mouth with an upside down triangle that starts on the third horizontal line. Add eyebrows withe two curved lines above the eyes.
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Draw parallel lines around the outside of the arm and leg guidelines to thicken the limbs. Add fingers to the hands with four small, curved rectangles on the bottom of the hand circles.
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Draw the hair around the cat girl's head with a curved line that runs from the base of each ear to the shoulder. This line should be broken up by several triangular jagged cone shapes to show individual locks of hair. Add fur to the forearms and calves with the same jagged triangular lines.
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Ink all of the lines on the cat girl that you wish to keep. Do not ink any guidelines or overlapping lines. Let the ink dry and carefully erase your pencil strokes with a kneaded eraser.
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Color the illustration with art markers. Use a bright color like pink for the hair and fur, beige for the skin and green for the shirt and pants. Use a red colored pencil to add color to the cat girl's cheeks and nose with slight strokes.
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Tips & Warnings
Light shading can be done by using a darker colored pencil and adding delicate strokes to the sections of the illustration that are farthest away from the light.
Be sure to let the marker dry before using the colored pencil over it or you could tear the illustration.
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- Photo Credit Illustrations by Andrew DeWitt
