How to Draw a Cat with a Fluffy Tail

I love drawing cute chibi animals.

These types of drawings are super cute to add to any notebook or planner and they also make great drawing projects for kids.

I’ve already done a lot of tutorials on drawing cute and kawaii animals that you can check out here.

In this post, I’m going to show you how to draw a cat with a fluffy tail step by step so that by the end of the tutorial, you’ll get something like this:

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I am currently using an iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil to create my digital art.

But you can use any tool – a pen and paper or color pencils or Copic markers or Photoshop because the drawing method remains the same.

How to draw a cat with a fluffy tail – Step by step for beginners

I always start with simple shapes so that anyone can do this drawing.

Let’s start with the top of the cat’s head. We’ll draw a line like this:

Next, I will draw the cat’s ears.

If you nail the cat’s ears, you’ll get the cutest cat face, I promise.

Next, we are going to draw the cat’s head. The cat is turning left so the left side is a little more curved since we are drawing the cat in a 3/4th view.

Next, we’ll draw the fur along the neck and drag the line toward the stomach.

Now, we are going to draw the cat’s front leg, don’t forget to draw that extra fur at the back to make the cat look all fluffy.

Next, we’ll draw the cat’s paws. Now the trick to drawing the cat’s paws is to start from the back, and draw a small curve like this:

Then, draw another curve in front of the previous one.

And repeat for the last toe bean. And you’ve completed the cat’s paw.

We are going to repeat this for the second front leg. We’ll start with the last toe bean.

And draw 2 more and complete the cat’s other front leg.

Now, we are going to draw the cat’s behind.

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Draw one large sweeping curve like this to draw the cat’s behind. The cat’s behind should align with the cat’s front paws since the cat is sitting.

Now, we will draw the cat’s back leg. I’m going to draw all the little toes like so:

Then, I’ll draw the cat’s back leg all curled up like this:

Now, we’ll draw the cat’s face.

I’m going to draw 2 small round eyes and a little mouth like this.

To make the cat look very kawaii, draw the mouth on the same level as the eyes – it gives the cat a SUPER cute look!

Next, add some whiskers.

Now, to draw the cat’s fluffy tail, I’m going to draw a big tail like this. Take your time with it, it needn’t be perfect. Make the tail as big as you want.

I’m going to add some fur details. So, erase 2 sections of the cat’s tail like this:

Then draw some fur on the cat’s tail like so:

And I’m going to add some fur lines on the cat’s tail like this:

Next, I’m going to color the cat a cute cream color and add 2 pink blush spots on the cat.

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Congratulations!

You’ve learned how to draw a cute cat with a fluffy tail.

You can go ahead and add this drawing to your planner or notebook to make it come to life!

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I hope this tutorial was helpful to you and you enjoyed drawing this cat with a fluffy tail. You can also use this as a cat with a fluffy tail drawing reference.

If you’d like to learn to draw more cute things, check out these books!

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If you want to see more tutorials on drawing kawaii animals and kawaii things, please leave a comment below on what you’d like to see next!

I will be adding more kawaii drawing tutorials (animals, food, and lots of things) to this blog, so keep a lookout!

If you are interested in drawing in a kawaii style and then selling clipart or merchandise on Etsy, check out this course!

My old bud Ilaria (we’ve been friends on Instagram back when I had Instagram) created this course! I’ve watched her grow from 0 followers, and I’m so, so proud of her!

And believe it or not, there is not 1 single good online course about learning how to draw kawaii art and then making physical stickers on the internet. I’ve been looking for a course like this for a long, long time.

And it’s finally here!!!

You can create your own stickers and print them and sell them on Etsy or any space! She goes into detail about how to draw the characters.

This is by far one of the best courses I’ve taken that is so cute and so educational.

The course is in English, and it’s amazing!

What do you need?

A sketchbook, Photoshop, and a graphic tablet so that you can draw the kawaii characters. If you want to make stickers, you’ll need a printer and sticker sheets.

Even if you don’t want to make stickers and just draw kawaii characters, this course is perfect!

Check it out here!

And if you are really keen on improving your drawings or you want to create cute kawaii animals and kawaii people, check out this second course by Sara.

Sara teaches you how to draw anything in a nice kawaii style. I really love these kinds of courses because they’re so easy to learn and it’s very easy to get clients because this is a really relatable drawing style.

It is in Italian but it comes with subtitles and it’s really easy to follow.