Drawing Playful Cartoon Cats

Video Transcript

"Cats are playful creatures, and it's important to capture this playfulness in the way that you draw their cartoons too. Cats aren't always just laying around, or even being looking happy or annoyed. Sometimes they're just having fun with various objects. So let's start by drawing our cat in a different pose than before. This cat's going to be on its side, on its back. Going to be very intent facing upwards. So we have our basic cat muzzle. Notice how we just take the neck, have a little crook in it, which then becomes the back. In this case this cat's tail is going to be wagging, flailing all over the floor. And have its paws shooting up in the air, all four of them in fact. Don't forget to put in some side whiskers. How many cats do you know that ever go on their back? Seems like either they love to do it, or they basically try and scratch you if you make them do it. Put the claws in here. Now what the heck is this cat doing? This cat is playing with one of the world's biggest balls of yarn. How exactly do you do yarn? Make a quick semi-circular shape, if you know balls of yarn you're know they're not perfect, so don't make like a total circle here, and then just basically draw a bunch of scraggly lines all the way through. See how I'm looping these together? Make sure they stay in the same. Then underneath there, you can do even more lines. This will very soon create a yarn effect. Have them follow the shape and slope of the ball. See how I'm not drawing perfectly straight lines out from the center. That gives more of a three dimensional look to your drawing here than you'd otherwise have. So finish drawing in the yarn. I also suggest having a couple sections that are coming off the yarn ball. It's obviously the cat's been ripping some of it apart; you can even have a little bit down here towards the claws."