title: How to Draw: Cats
author:  Polly Pinder 
description: Polly Pinder studied graphics at Leeds Art College. Her first job was with a Yorkshire newspaper, and she subsequently worked as a lecturer in graphic design at Wakefield District College. She has written and illustrated a number of books on a variety of other subjects including cake decoration and growing herbs, papermaking and paper crafts. Her illustrations in Muck and Magic were commended when that book won the 1993 Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize. She has also designed bed linen and wallpapers, and the graphics for a wallpaper book based on newly-discovered eighteenth-century wallpapers.
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  ![](index-1_1.jpg)
  
  
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  **First, draw circles for the** **head, body, eyes, and legs** **1**
  
  
  **Next, add a flower, back,** **and ears. Then add outlines** **2 for the eyes
  and legs** **Next, remove all**
  
  
  **3 unnecessary lines**
  
  
  **Next, add the mouth,**
  
  
  **4 nostrils, claws, outline pupils,** **and draw the spots**
  
  
  **Final y, color spots on the** **5 body, pupils, and claws**
  
  
  ![](index-3_1.jpg)
  
  
  **First, draw circles for the head** **and the body. Next, draw the** **1
  tail, the back, eyes and legs** **Next, add fire on the tail.**
  
  
  **Draw the mouth. Then add** **2 outlines for the eyes and** **legs**
  
  
  **Next add outline to the fire,** **tongue and ears. Then add** **3 outlines
  for the stomach** **and the tail. Next add circle** **and toes on the legs**
  **Finally, remove all**
  
  
  **unnecessary lines, and color** **4**
  
  
  ![](index-4_1.jpg)
  
  
  **First, draw circles for the** **1 head, the body and legs** **Next, add fire
  