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How to draw a cat

Start with the whole outline and finish with whiskers and toe lines.

Finished, it has 17 areas to color: 24th of 50 here, counting from the simplest (about middle of the range). Close to it: rabbit and car.

Main colors in the original emoji: yellow, orange and brown.

The six steps

1. The whole outline: head, pointed ears, body, legs and a curled tail.
2. A line for the back leg.
3. The inside of one ear and a line for the other back leg.
4. The inside of the other ear and the front paws.
5. The eye, the nose and the mouth.
6. Whiskers and toe lines.

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How to draw a cat: 6 steps

16 shapes over six steps, then a box to draw your own.

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How to draw a cat: 4 big steps

Steps of 2, 3, 5 and 6 shapes, drawn bigger.

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Cat to color

The finished drawing: 17 areas.

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Color and trace: cat

Color it, then trace the word.

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New parts are black and what is already drawn is gray; how the sheets work. Draw something else: cat face, cow, cupcake, dinosaur, dog, dog face, dragon, elephant, fire engine, fish, flying saucer, fox.

Drawings adapted from Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0: turned into outlines, and checked so every area can be colored.