Kawaii Cats: Draw Adorable Chibi Kitties Step By Step!

1. Intro: Kits are one of the most adorable pets in the world. But what if we could make them even more adorable? Hi, I'm a professional artist and in this class, we'll be drawing adorable, she gets, the shoe style is generally used when artists want to draw something very cute and tiny. So this is what we're going to do to our cats in this class. Cute and tiny. We'll start by grabbing some adorable references and inspiration from professional artists and from real life. Look at all those cute cats. They're adorable. And then we're going to get drawing right away. Not only are we going to see me draw this to be cats, but you'll also draw along with me. We'll start by drawing the shapes, going through different patterns and details, trying out different she be expressions, and even posing your kitty in different fun poses. More than this even includes templates that you can use to draw your own Chevy gets with a ready-to-use space. So what are you waiting for? Joy now, and I'll see you in the next video. 2. The One Resource You Need: Hi and welcome. Let's start our class well, by focusing on something fundamental, inspiration, the first thing every artist should get when trying to draw something new is lots and lots of inspiration and references. Creating a mood board filled with images that inspire you is always a good idea when drawing something new, Pinterest is a good place to keep those inspirations, e.g. but you can also keep photos and images you find on the folder on your computer, or even take your own photos for places or subjects that you find interesting. We need to see our subject in real life, but also professional work from other artists. This way, you can learn the many different ways and solutions to draw the same subject. And that's why I've included this lesson on inspiration. Before starting to draw, take some time to find some cute references and inspiration. But where can you get inspiration for drawing sheet we cats, as I said before, you can find it by doing some research online or even true books. I've also looked around and found some great and cute inspiration to share with you. I created a Pinterest board filled with adorable shaving kits that you can look through and hopefully give you a few ideas and inspiration. Looking for photos of cats can also be very helpful. Cats are already quite cute. So that can help you in getting more inspired or maybe figure out their ballot and how to draw them. Baby cats are especially good to search for since the really small rounds and everything about them is skewed. So they're a great reference when it comes to drawing, shiva gets finally, other ways to seek inspiration is by finding games, books, or movies and TV shows that have acute NCBI style, acute example of those and that you can search for is the relaxing game, Animal Crossing, where you can interact with several characters inspired by different animals, including cats, be in public. Ed is an animated series with a very cute style that features and adorable cats that often appears grumpy. One other example is the mobile game Nico atomic. Katie collected, where the goal is to lower as many kids as you can into your backyard. This game is filled with 2D drawings of cats. So it's definitely worth taking a look at the games art for inspiration. There are many artists that drawing them more cubist style, so it's worth finding such artists that will inspire more often than not, the archer find on Pinterest comes with a link to the artists social media page. That's a good way to find new artists. Look for inspiration wherever you can, because that's one of the largest, most important tools. Take your time looking at pictures of cats. Go through the Pinterest boards I mentioned, and when you're ready, meet me in the next video. 3. Drawing The Basic Shapes: Hello and welcome. So before we draw an actual cats and, or a finished drawing of a Chevy gets first, I want to go through the basic shapes. So basically, we're going to build a blueprint of our shear weekends. So we're going to start with very simple shapes that you can use to build your own Chevy cats. Let's start. I have here a blank documents and I'm going to start the shapes of my Chevy gets, so we're going to draw very small and round. She began, I have here my pencil brush in red. And the first thing we're going to do is drawing an oval shape, something like this. Don't worry too much about your lines, how they look. It's perfectly fine for it to look messy. This is just a sketch, something for you to build your kids as you go. So first thing we do is a novel shape just like this. This is going to be our body. This one right here. Alright, now next, I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to create a new layer here, just so I have everything in separate layers, so there's no confusion here, but you can draw it in the same layer wherever is the most comfortable for you. Now, here around this part, I'm going to draw a big circle, something like this. This is going to be our head. Okay? I'm also going to take this opportunity and draw some guidelines for the face. Something very simple like this. Alright, so we have most of our cat right now. Now before doing anything else, I'm going to create a few guidelines to help us know where everything goes and to draw everything in its right place. So moving it a little bit to touch this shape. Now I'm going to duplicate this line and move it to touch the top part of our oval shape. Now, another one for t and of our head. So this is our guidelines so far, we have our body or head. Now, let's continue building our guts. So all we're missing right now is the tail and our legs. For the tail, again, this is a very round cat, so we're going to be using very round shapes like circles, ellipses or ovals. For the tail, we're going to start from here, the end of our body shape. Go up and build this sausage shape that goes up to our head guideline right here. You can make this shape even ship here if you want, or somewhere like this. Now, all we're missing is our legs. For that. I'm going to go right here, create another guideline and move it down. Somewhere around here. I want the legs to be short. I really want a very round, round caps and very tiny. So somewhere around here it's good enough. And now that we're done with our guidelines, I'm going to join them altogether and give them a little bit of transparency there. And now finally, we can go in and draw our legs. Now for the legs, we're going to have a very ranch. So you can start with a circle like this and then go down until you reach the last guideline. And we have one life is going to rotate it a little bit like this. There we go. We have one lift. Now. For the front legs, we do exactly the same thing. One circle and the round shape. Until we touch or less got it. There we go. We have here the very basic shapes for our sheet. We get a novel **** for the body. Then a circle for the head. This circle doesn't need to be 100% perfect. Just close to it. Again, this is just a base, just something to guide us. So you don't need to be perfect with this lines. They can be very messy. Don't be afraid of doing something that doesn't look perfect. Okay, then we did our tile. This is going to be our tail and finally, our legs. We're not adding years right now because that's going to be part of the details. So for now, this is all I want you to do to spread shapes. These are the shapes that we're going to be using throughout the class. However, when drawing issue we get there are many ways you can do that, that are different proportions or even shapes to do it. I'm going to give you a template of this shapes along with two other templates. One for Elinor and rectangular cats. So the proportions and shapes are going to be slightly different. And another template for a cat that is a bit more anthropomorphic. So if that is something that interests you and if you want to practice that you have those three templates and you can practice three different kinds of cats. Even though we're going to use a small round get for our class, I'm always going to give you templates with the other proportions. So that's something you can do if you want to have some more fun with your CV cats, you can also try your own shapes. Have some fun with this phase, the shape phase. This is where you discover a bit of your style as well. So have fun. Don't worry too much about perfection. Be messy with your shapes. And when you're ready. Follow me to the next video where we're going to start adding some details to our sheet. We get. 4. Sketching Head Details: Alright, hello and welcome back. So here we are. We've figured out the shapes for our cat, maybe practice those a little bit, just over, are more comfortable with them. And now it's time to start refining our sketch and adding more details. So before adding the details, I'm going to go in, add some transparency to my shapes. And I'm going to define my cat a little bit more. I'm still going to use a pencil brush, but with a darker color. And I'm going to go through my shapes, but giving them a little bit more definition. So it starts looking more like a guess. Again, I'm going to still be quite messy with my lines. We have our head here. Now for the body. We have here a very round body. And then we go up and draw our tail. So as you can see, I'm going through my lines but giving them more definitions. So you see there's a cat in here. Now, our legs, tiny legs. Then we have the belly. Again. Another. Then we close our body right here, which just refining more our cat. So it does look a bit more like it gets. So you see there's a bit of a difference now. Now, I think there's a kitten here. Now, I'm going to go here and add a tiny, or just a little bit of both. Because we don't see a lot of it's right. It's the legs on the other side of our cats. And this is it. Alright, so now that this is done, it's time to add some details such as the ears, eyes, and nose and the maps, right? For that we're going to draw several different types of each feature. Then you can choose your own. And so you know that there are always a lot of options to use when drawing shiva gets. So I'm going to go over here where I already have a few basis, just the head ways, right? I don't need the body right now. Now we're going to go in and draw different features. So e.g. let's start with the eyes. When drawing a shabby character. In general, we tend to simplify things a lot, especially the face features, usually the rounder or the more simple and basic is most of the time the cutest it look. So that's what we're going to do right here. One thing you can do is just go over to the ice area and draw simple dots. Just like this. This is it, you have some ice done. Another option, e.g. is instead of two dots, you can draw two ovals for the eyes, something like this. There we go. And now for something a bit more difference, even though usually you would like to keep things small when going for shabby character. Sometimes having that exaggeration of proportion from different features of the body to give your character a little bit more kidneys. So one thing you can do is draw a very big and round eyes on your kids. I can go right here. Draw a big circle. Alright, and now another circle on the inside. But this one is called, this kinda reminds me in when cats are in that playful states and their eyes go really big. So that is what it reminds me. This kind of voice is very round and very big guys. So these are three options of eyes you can use on your CV cats. Of course, there are several other ways you can do it. Again will come up for other artists or other references might give you a few more ideas. And you can experiment with this as much as you want. These are the three types of us we're going to draw here. Now, I'm going to choose one of them. Go back to my cats and draw them, going to draw my eyes. Now, I'm going to go with the two dots. There we go. I like to keep things very simple and I like the two dots for eyes option. So you can go to your cats and choose one type of ice. If you don't want to choose anything right now, you can just go to your sketch book and try out different types of eyes. Practice them until you like them, until you know what you like to use, and then add them to your kids. Now that we have our Eisenstein, we're going to draw the nodes. I'm going to go right here. One of my favorite shapes of noses when drawing in animals, specifically cats, is a tiny hearts. So cats have that inverted triangle shape right in real life. And I like to transform that into a small heart. So this is one of the nose is, you can draw against the nose is going to be very simple, very simple shapes. Another one you can do is go right ahead and again, an oval-shaped. And finally, for the last one, I'm not going to draw a nose. That's another option as well. You don't need to draw the nose when you're creating a new character or a character if you really want to go for us. Very simplistic style. You can omit certain features if you think that fits. For the last one. I'm not going to add any notes. It's a nozzle sketch right here. With that, then I'm going to go over to my cats again and draw a little nodes. I think I'm going with the ellipse here. The second nodes we drew. Alright, let's go back to our details. And now we're going to draw three different types of masks. More often than not, we use the laid down tree shape for the mouth, right? So that's what we're going to do here. I'm going to make a line going down. Then the mouth. There you go, the cutest small mouth you've ever seen. Another option, while still keeping things simple is going down. And then just a notch line like this. Now finally, we're going to draw another version of our laid down three. But this time bigger, a longer mouth to bigger mouth like this. And the great thing about this one is that we can take the chance and adds a small theatre right there. Or it may be even on both sides. I like to keep it in one side. So this is another option for your mouth. Just like before. I'm going to go back to my cat and draw the mouth. I like this very small mouth styles. So that's what I'm going to remember. Repeat as many times as you need, even if they are very simple lines until you feel you got exactly the shape you want. Alright, so our cat is almost finished. All we are missing now is the ears, right? I said that we're not going to draw the years yet because I'm going to add those in this video. So usually cat ears, our triangle, right? If you look at the cat, you see two triangles on top of their head. So that's more or less the kind of shape we're going to use right here. But again, you can have several variations. So one option is going with rounder ears like this, then another two on the inside. And we got to very small and round ears for our good, almost like their ears. But for kids, then we can go in a similar fashion. But drawing are a bit punchier. So again, two triangles, one on each side, and then two more triangles on the inside. There we go. Going again with the different proportions ideas. We can go in. And instead of going with small, we can go with big. So this time we're going to draw very big and pointed triangles, one on each side. And you are done two more triangles on the inside. And just like that, we drew three different kinds of Chevy cat faces. So as you can see, even though they all have more or less the same concept, you can have different variations of a Chevy gets. It's mostly all up to your own taste, your style, or even what do you think fits best to your characters? So I'm going to go back to my cats again. I had a new layer and now I'm going to choose what kind of use I want to go with. I think I'm going with small triangles, small end pointy triangle. So with that, we have our sheep cat finished. Or better yet? We have our sketch, our sheet, we get finished. 5. Adding Patterns To Our Cats!: So we have the sketch of our sheet, we get finished. But if you want to add something more, you can add a pattern to them. So e.g. cats can have a solid color, right? They can be just fully black or fully white or orange, maybe even browns. But other times, cats have different patterns, e.g. your cats can be a tabby cats more often than not, they are listed, at least those are usually black with brown or gray Orange sketch e.g. are usually listed like this, so they have the light orange floor and then they have a darker orange lists or stripes throughout their body. This is an option. I'm going to go in, make a new layer. And I'm going to show you how I would do that while keeping things simple. So we can make those stripes like this, small rectangles. And we have a few stripes on their back. Then we can add some more stripes to the tail. Can even darken this. So it's easier to see more stripes. And another one. There we go. Then finally, let's add a few more. The head. There we go. So we have here, Let's advocates a very simple circuit. We can try other patterns, e.g. another option is going with the calico cats. Calico cats, as you can see, usually have three colors, e.g. the white, orange, and black. How much of each color depends on the cats is pretty random, but usually they are mostly white with a few spots of orange and black. Again, we can portray this on our cat. So I'm going to have height here are tabby cats. Add another layer and try it out. So e.g. we can color our ears and we can add a few circles to markets. Let's say this one is going to be black. And the other ones, we're going to, we're going to have another color, orange, e.g. for now, we'll leave them like this. We can also take the chance, and again, the bits to the tail. So it's all about blogs and stripes. When it comes to kids. We can even go in and color something around there. I like this. This is an option. You can also go with two blobs of colors right here. So it's all up to you. And really this, all these blobs are circles can be quite random because usually they are. So when drawing a tabby cat, you want to draw some stripes by using some triangles or rectangles depending on what you're drawing rights. For a calico cat, it's all about stripes and circles. That's the kind of shapes you want to draw for those patterns. You can even add here a colored box. We're going to go through another pattern, which is the seal point. More often than not, these are the Siamese cats, right? So as you can see, they have a lighter color throughout their body, but then they have, the points of them are darker. So e.g. the years are darker, detail is darker. A lot of the times the faces well and the ends of their posts. So this one is also fairly easy. So if you want to draw a cat or a CME scat, you want to darker, dark and their ears, their tail. So this one is more all about adding darker shades through all of their extremities. So pause, sale and years and even the face. So as you can see, it's very simple to add more personality to your cats by using very simple shapes. Going to use a heart for the darker fur on their face. Because I think that makes it look. And that's how you would want to go for acyl point gets they can have other colors, but usually this is what you find most of the time, this brown scream and almost black colors. But as you can see, it's very simple. We have here again, our weekends, so it's all about stripes. You can add even more stripes if you want. This is the most basic way of drawing this pattern, just a few stripes on top of the body. Then we have our calico cat that is all about spots of different colors, usually white, black, and orange. And finally, we have our steel point cat that is all about having darker fur on their extremities such as the ears, tail, end, the center of the face as well. So what we're going to do now is I'm going to clean up this drawing with some new lines with a clean line art. I'm going too fast for this phase a little bit because all I'm doing is going over my lines. So now all we have to do is choose eyes, nose, mouth, and ears for your shoe begets and add it to your sketch. And then a pattern. Again, I'm going to leave you three different templates. One for this shape of cat though the round, the small and round. Another furthermore hit angular cats. And finally, another template for the anthropomorphic cats. You can see how these features behave in different proportions. And if you want, you can use those as practice once you're all done with this details and the patterns and you have a cleaner drawing, just like I'm doing here. We're going to add some colors. So take your time. Have fun making as many sketches as you need. And once you're ready, follow me to the next video where we're going to add some color to our ship. It gets, so it looks even cuter. 6. Choosing The Colors For Your Chibi Cat: Hello artist and welcome back. Now that are shaping cat is ready. We can add some colors to make it even Q-tip, if you have an idea of what colors you want to use, you can just pick any color you want. On the other hand, you might want to follow the colors from your reference, or the most common colors found in cats with a pattern you drew. Finally, if you're unsure on what to use or just want to do something different, you can find a random palettes online and use it. Again, Pinterest can be a good place for it. I often look up color palettes on Pinterest and save them for future use. I'll share with you my color palette board, so you can find some neat palettes to use drawings. You can also search for your own colors if you want. Another great place to find a random color palettes is coolers.co. I especially like going to this website when I have no idea what colors to use to make things fun, I'll generate a few palettes and unload one that I like. You can generate as many color palettes as you want and even customize how many colors you want on your palettes. There's a lot you can do here, so it's a tool I always find worth mentioning when it comes to choosing color. Now whenever you have your colors ready, it's time to color our shear weekends. 7. Adding Colors To Our Drawings: Okay, So I opened here my tabby cats, and now I'm going to add some color to it. I have here a very simple palette, gray with almost black. I'm going to keep my colors very similar to what we see in cats in real life. And this is going to be very simple. We're going to add color to our three different patterns. What I'm going to do is I have here my line arts, my tabby cats, and I'm going to let, to add a layer below it. So this is going to be the layers for my colors. Now I'm going to go over here to my paint buckets, pick the lighter gray. And now I'm going to start to add color to most of the body. Here. Here, here. The body, some of the stripes and the other legs. So this is just I'm just using a paint bucket. One thing to have into account if you're using Clip Studio or other drawing software. Be sure you have this option when using the paint bucket that says refer other layers. It might have a different name in other software, but it's usually something along these lines. This way, when you are creating a different layer for your colors, it will always have into account your lineups. As long as your lines are all closed, there are no gaps. The paint bucket will do its job. So continuing, I'm going to grow to pick my darker gray color and my stripes. So as you can see, very simple. Finally, you will just missing here our ears. And for that, I'm going to use a light pink. There we go. And we have our character colored in the very simple manner. We have our Calico right here. And as you can see, I have here a sketch of the patterns so it's easier to add color. So again, keeping the pallets very, very simple. And now I'm going to go for my paint bucket. I added a new layer below my lines. And now I'm going to pick the white first. Just the light, the white. Of course we can't really see. We're doing this right right now. I can go over here and use a darker gray for my background so I can check if I'm doing everything right. Paint bucket again and quality in everything that we have this. Okay, So now going to bring my pattern here. So I moved my patterns so it's on top of my colors so I can see it. Now. It's time for some fun and adding other colors. So I'm going to start with the orange. As you can see, we have here one big block. This block is going to be arch. There we go. This one here, orange again. I really like this orange colors, so I tend to use orange in most of my factor. Adds orange to one of our ears right here. And now we're going to go and add our darker color, which is this dots right here. Then our tail. And finally here in one of our app. And I'm forgetting our year. And we go, we have a cute calico cat. I'm going to hide my sketch layer because we don't need it anymore. And look at it. I loved think it's really, really cute. I really like liquid gets. They always have fun patterns and they're very fun to draw. Alright, so we are missing just one pattern. So let's go here to our seal point. Cats. Move it a bit right around here. Again, as you can see, I have here a sketch. I'm going to create a new layer for my colors. And first, the first thing I'm going to do is add the main four colors. So this light brown or cream color for most of the body. And now let's see our patterns here and it's time to go in and paint of the extremities of our seal point Katz painting all the bus. As you can see, I'm being very messy with this right now, but I'll fix it at all. So these patterns don't need to be 100% perfect. These patterns, even on real-life cats, if you notice there, they tend to be quite random and their shapes are not perfect. So if you're not drawing perfect shapes, That's fine. Well, adding the pink to the years. And now I'm going to fix everything that needs some fixing. E.g. here, the tail. Pause right here. We go. Erase everything that goes outside. The ones we have here are three different patterns of our cats. And you can leave your cat just like this hesitant. Another thing you can do if you want a bit more detail is to add some shadows. And that can be done in a very simple way. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go create a new layer that is between my lines and my colors. There we go. Now, I'm going to go over here and set it up as multiply and bring down the opacity to about 50%. Now, all I have to do is pick up the gray color over here. Another thing I'm going to clip to below layer. So this way, as you can see, I'm painting out of the line, but it's not painting out of the one. Or you can see it. Since it's only having into account the color that is right here. It's having into account this layer right here. Okay? Now the next thing you need to decide when painting, when adding some shadows is where is the light coming from, e.g. if it's coming from this side, then your shadows are going to be on this side. Right? If your light is coming from this side, then our shadows are going to be on this side. Alright? This is a very simple way of adding some shadows. I'm going to say that my life is coming from the left. That means I'm going to add shadows to the right side of making things very, very simple. Like this. Shadow here. And finally, right here. A little bit. One of the years as well. And my shadows are mostly that. Let's go to the next cats and do exactly the same thing. A layer between my line art and my colors, set it to multiply with around 50% opacity. And now we can start, I think, going with a darker gray here. Now we can start adding our chefs. You can see I am keeping things very, very simple. There we go. Now. For less cats, some more shadows, adding a new layer between my colors and my line. Let's set it to multiply. 50% of opacity, pick up one of the colors. It's whatever you prefer, e.g. if I pick up the lighter one, as you can see, it's a bit too lights. I can of course, keep it and increase my opacity of it. Another thing you can do is pick the darker tone sample. If I go right here, you'll see that I have a dark color right away. This is a very simple way of adding shadows to any of your drawings. Any drawing you're doing via tertiary care or anything else. This is a technique you can use very simple way of adding shadows without worrying too much. Just need to decide where your light is coming from and then draw the shallow on the opposite side. There we go. We have shadows on all of our tree. We get we are done with coloring our cats. Again, take your time, choose other colors, choose other patterns, find different references. Just use the resources I gave you at the beginning of this video. Just how fun it can be. Very weird colors that don't appear in cats in real life. It can be anything you want. You are the one in charge here. Again, I'm going to leave you several templates for each of the cats proportions that we've talked about in the beginning. So have fun with your colors and your shoe. Be CAD drawings. Whenever you're ready. I will see you in the next video. 8. Make Your Chibi Cat Come Alive With Expressions: Hello and welcome back. So we'll learn how to draw a sheep. It gets, we added some patterns and details and even some covers. So now it's time to try different things with our shiva gets e.g. expressions. For that, we're going to draw three different expressions for your Chevy gets, we're going to draw a happy expression and angry you want. And finally, something a little bit more different. We're going to draw a confused expression. So first I have here these guidelines, these references so I can draw on, this is the same guidelines are used for the facial features, right? So we're going to start with a happy expression for that. Instead of drawing two dots for the eyes or any other style of either true going for, I'm going to draw two shapes like this, like a mountain. Then I'm going to draw, our heart knows. I'm going to draw to start trying to mouth in the same way we drew it before. This shape. Okay, I think our character already looks a bit happier, right? It has a bit of emotion here. However, I want to add something more. I want to, for them to have their mouth open. And you can show that then just like this, I'm going to move here, our nose a bit upwards. There we go. And we have very easily with very simple lines and shapes, a happy expression. But you can add some more details, maybe even outside of the face to emphasize the motion. E.g. sometimes I like to add some lines outside like that show a bit more emotion of Macedon. So this is something you can do. You can go especially with TB, which should be art with a shipyard style. You can add these little details around your character's face or even on their face. So you can emphasize even more. You can saturate the emotion even more. So this is it for a happy expression. I'm going to create another layer right here, just so we have things separated. And I'm going to draw an angry expression for that. Again, instead of drawing the dots of the eyes or any other cell eyes, I'm going to go in and draw some tilted lines like this. And I like to draw it thick like this, like several lines altogether. But you can choose how thick you want the eyes to look. I like to go this way. And then we can try this time, or ellipse knows, Let's bring it closer to the eyes to show how angry when when we are angry, usually our faces close a with or face features get closer to each other. However, when you are happy, it's the opposite. So when you're drawing a happy expression, you can even move the eyes a bit upwards. And how the facial features away from each other with an angry expression, tried to keep them close. And now I'm going to draw the mouth here, the same shape we did for our eyes, but this time for the mouth, like this. So as you can see, everything is close together. We can even make the nose go closer to the eyes like this. To exaggerate even more. N, I think it looks even funnier This way. Finally, for our tiny detail, we can do something like this. If you've read some Mongo before or watched animation shows, you know, this kind of symbol. And you know, it means the person or the character is really angry. So this is something you can add to emphasize even more, you're angry expression. Alright, let's go to the next one. This one is really fun and we're going to draw confused expression. So what I like to do here is instead of having your usual eyes, I like to draw some spirals for eyes like this. They don't even need to look the same. Maybe if you have one bigger than the other, it's even more fun. Let's try here. Let's make one of the eyes bigger than the other. There we go. And even at different levels. So as you can see, when I do this, it adds even more to the expression. Exaggeration is always, it always depends on the style you're going for or how you like to draw things. But usually exaggerating things even a little bit do make a difference. And now, as for the mouth, so we draw our maps like this, right, some of our cat's mouth. So let's try to do that, but adds a pit of undulation there. So we start this. There we go. And now the same thing on the other side. There you go. Again, as you can see, of course this was kind of accidental, usually electrode things first symmetrical to each other. But as you can see, one side of the mouth is different than the other and it's even a bit tilted. These things, even if they are accidental, you can leave them, especially in this kind of expression where confusion and assymetry emphasize the expression even more, the motion the character is feeling. So try to make real things. Don't be afraid to go out of your way and exaggerate things a lot and make weird drawings with your expressions. Because sometimes it to work better than being very perfect with whatever you're drawing. Now we can add, again, a bit of confusion details, right? So we can continue with the spiral idea. Something like this, another one here. This is something that you can do and these are our expressions that we are learning here. As you can see, they are all very simple. You can draw something really cute and funny with very simple lines or even shapes. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to our Chevy cats. We have those three different proportions of Sheba cats, right? And I'm going to add these expressions to them. I have them here. They look a little bit scary without, without their faces right now, I have my guidelines. And now I'm going to go in and follow exactly the same steps that I did previously. So we're going to start with a happy face with our first at something like this. Actually, let's move this a little bit upwards. There we go. And now the nose, right? Heart nose, the mouth, and then very big open mouth. There we go. Don't forget the details, the tiny details. There we go. Now for the next one, we have the angry expression, right? So Hilton eyes, Let's exaggerate those even more. Tilt them a lot. I like to have fun with these expressions and really exaggerate things. Right now for this character, we have these nodes, right? The oval nose, and then we got an inverted V or a mountain, mountain shape. There we go. He's really angry there. And now again, we can add our angry symbol right here. We go. He looks so angry. I wonder what they did to him. Now finally, our confused expression. So two spirals. I'm going to go with a one bigger than the other. I'm going to be very messy with this because I really don't want to have a lot of control of what happens here. So it can be even weirder and confusing. There we go. Now for the mouth. Same thing on the other side. Is so confused or thing. Some details around our character here and there we go. See very easy, very simple. Now, all I have to do is go in and clean my lines to some final lines. I always, even if it's simple, I like to go through a sketch phase first and then redo my lines in the cleaner with a cleaner look because this way, I'm sure I won't be making any mistakes. So I created a new vector layer on top. If you're working with Clip Studio Paint or other similar drawing software, a lot of softwares already have Layer vector layers. I like to use a vector layers for line-up. Because when I did this layer, if I need to scale it up, if I need to change anything at all, I won't lose any quality to it. So it's very useful when drawing some lines to inverted fees. Hardness and a big smile. Now, let's go up. I forgot my details here. Don't forget about your details. Really fun expression now for the angry one. Wow, he's so angry. Repeat the same on the other side. Oval nose, and inverted V for the mouth. This is such a fun new expression. The small extra detail. Now for the last one, confused expression, a big spiral. And the smaller spiral. Now on delighted mouth. And there we go, B, messy with it. Don't be afraid of being messy with your shapes and your lines sometimes. That's what the drawing needs. And there we go. We have here all our expressions. As you can see, you can draw any kind of expression in a very simple way. Have fun with it. Try different things. Try different shapes, even lookup for Mung expressions, indifference, she be art styles. See what you like, try them out, just try different things and have fun. And when you're done, follow me to the next video. 9. Posing Your Chibi Cats: Hello artists and welcome back. We went through the process on how to draw a shoe be kids, we learn which shapes to use different emotions to draw, as well as different patterns and details you can add. So now it's time to go to the next level which is posing your shear we get you'll want to draw your CV cats in more entertaining poses than just standing still. And that's exactly what we'll learn in this video. The first thing you need is a reference. In the beginning of our class, I provided you with a few Pinterest boards, including one filled with cats. You can go there now e.g. and find the posts that you like. On the other hand, you can search for something specific that you might have in mind. The important thing is that you choose a good and clear photo of the poles you want to draw. For this exercise, I'll be drawing a stretching cat. This is a reference I'll be using throughout this video, and I'll leave this image available for you to download if you want to use the same reference. Now that we have a good reference image to follow, it's time to start drawing. So I have here my reference image, and I also added our base shapes for the sheep cat we've been trying so forth. They'll forget, I will leave you with templates with the same exercise, but with the other two proportions. So if you want to work on those proportions as well, you can follow those. We're going to draw a cat stretching. The first thing I want to do is first go into our image and find some shapes there. So we get more familiar with the pose. I'm grabbing my pencil and I'm going to go in and start drawing shapes. So e.g. we have a circle here for our heads. Then. I think we have here something like a bean shape of very long been for the whole body right? Going in this direction. Then we have our sausage for sale. So as you can see, the shapes I used for our ship, it gets kinda follow the shapes of irregular cats. I just exaggerated the size into very basic shapes. Not for the leg. We got one leg here. And we can also see the one at the back. And then we have a very long legs coming out at the front like a triangle shape. Alright, so with this, I can have a better idea of the movement of the poles. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to draw this pose with the knowledge gained here with our new pose, but using our Chevy cat shapes. So let's start. First. We're going to draw a very big head, right? So round and be kept like this. And then we can go in and draw our beam. Sometimes trying this shape can be a bit hard at the beginning, especially getting the proportions are the sizes you want, right? So what we can do is divide the bean shape into smaller and easier shapes. So I'm going to go in and I'm going to draw one circle here and another circle Here we go. Now, I can connect them and create the bean shape. As you can see, I'm drawing this shape even rounder than in our heparins. And instead of going for a long shape, I am going for something short. Just like here in our shear we get, Alright. So now we can add our legs that we now follow our bean shape. But I'm going to focus on this shape right here. One part is done. Now, the other is quite long. But still, I'm going to focus on this shape. But I'm going to lay down, since that's what we see in our reference. We go, as you can see, I'm being very messy with my shapes here, and that's totally fine. Okay. Don't be afraid to be messy in your sketches. Now, all we are missing is the tail, right? We have this sausage shape in the tail goes up. And we're going to do the same for our shiva gets a sausage shape. What? This? There we go. Now, all we're missing is the head right? Now, if you notice closely our cat here, the face isn't 100%. Turn to the side, right? We do see a little bit of an angle here, but I want the angle to be even more exaggerated. I want the cat to be almost looking at us. So for debts. And this is something very important when drawing from reference. Sometimes you can draw exactly what you see, but other times to make your drawings more interesting, you can play a bit with angles and adapt the reference to different angles. So that's what we're going to do here today. We're going to experiment with that a little bit. Our cat's face will be beats in a three-quarter position, something like this. There we go. Now, I'm going to draw the eyes close. This are heart-shaped nose, right? And there we go, All of them missing is our ears. Let go. Around here. There we go. So see, I play the beat here with the angle of our reference and turn to face to us a little bit more. Now, looking at this, I feel that compared to our original shapes, the cats are cats is a bit too emigrated. So while the sketch phase, this is a good opportunity for you to change things, edits you're drawing until you are happy with the results. So I'm going to go in and scale this up a little bit, make it wholesale, bring it closer to the head. And there we go. This is a closer proportion to what we have initially. So once this is done, all we have to do is repeat the same steps we did when drawing our ship. It gets. So I'm going to erase all these lines we don't need and move it to the center and maybe even scale it up a bit just so it's easier for you to see it. So as you can see, this is quite messy, right? So now let's go in. I'm going to add some transparency here to my sketch, to my first sketch. A new layer on top. Still am going to use my pencil, but with a darker color. And I'm going to go over all this lines. So it looks a little bit more organized and clear for us to see. Of course, this doesn't need to be 100% perfect. It's going to be clearer and it will look more like our care. Go. Now I'm going to draw the small ears, one on each side. Again, this is the phase where you can move things around, check and see if you're happy with what we have. Feel free to edit stuff, scale it up and down. The sketching phase is very important for this. So you can decide what you want your drawing to look like. Once that's done, all you have to do is just like before go in and draw the final lines. I'm going to fast forward that because you don't need to be seeing me go over the same line over and over and over again. But this is my usual process when drawing from a reference, I try to understand the pose. I draw on top of the pose, then go outside of it. Experiment with this shapes adapted to my own style or any kind of other southern going for this case should be art style. And sometimes I can even go and adapt the angles of the post to make it more interesting. After that, all you have to do is make a more detailed sketch or you can better understand where is everything. And so you can make your final decisions on the drawing. Then go over all your lines and you can even go in and add some color to your cats. You can use the same palette we use before you can use another one. The most important is that you have fun with the whole process. Don't forget, you can download this and all the other proportions we have been working on so far. So you can see all the examples and practice from those. If you want. Have fun with your drawings and meet me in the next video where we're going to talk about your assignments. So I will see you right there. 10. Assignment: Your Turn!: Alright, We've been through a lot in this class. And I hope you've been following along and drawing your own Chevy cats throughout the class. If you have, feel free to share them with me. I'm always looking forward to seeing your art for my classes. If you haven't drawn anything yet. The word, here's what you can do. Grab the Chevy CAD templates I'm giving you, draw your own version of a shiva gets and finally shared it with me. That's it. Pretty is, right. You just need to download the template and use it in a drawing software of your choice or printed out and use any traditional media. Don't forget to share it with me. I can't wait to see it. And before you go, I just have a quick video left, so I hope to see you there. 11. Conclusion: Before You Go: Hi again, and thank you for watching. I just want to say a few words. While you watch this quick speed painting in the background, we've gone through a lot of information on this class. So be sure to take your time with it. Go back to the videos and rewatch them. Practice drawing your shipping kits and take it one step at a time. Experiment with different shapes, proportions, patterns, even different poses. Cats are a joy to draw and drawing them in a Chevy style is so much fun. The possibilities are endless. And whenever you feel ready, share your drawings with me. I'm really looking forward to seeing them. I hope you've enjoyed this class and then it was helpful to you to consider leaving a review so more people can find it. Also, it really allows me to keep on creating new classes in the future, as well as updating old ones. Thank you for your support and as always, keep on drawing.