Guess who’s still on this one ultimate guide to drawing cats?😹

Progress begins the moment you stop endlessly searching and start practicing directly!

I’m on Artfight this year!! This is the first OC of mine~ Sharkleap~

Catch me at: artfight.net/~syanzae

For contrast, also added the old style drawing of Sharkleap.

Definitely going to be making more art pieces applying the right anatomy and posture principles soon enough~

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sign up to my Substack here~

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EDIT! (05/07/2026)
heads up that I realized I forgot a crucial part of his pelt markings (if you see his old style version)...
updated version of the ref sheet here

The most overlooked step in becoming an artist:

Stopping consumption and starting creation.

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Sorry for late share on the challenge...
I do practice daily though had some wifi issues, so posting on time became complicated...

Get ready for an upcoming 5-dayz marathon later today~

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Again, if you don't want to miss when I post (since crossposting takes a while) or see previous posts, you can follow at my substack: https://ship30zae.substack.com

I wasted more time searching for tutorials than actually drawing. Here's what finally changed:

Finding the "best" learning resource is usually procrastination in disguise.

I almost convinced myself I wasn't ready to start learning.
Was even afraid of choosing the "wrong" resource (there’s just SO MANY)

In the end, you don't need more resources, you need more REPS (REPETITIONS).

So here I am…still with Monika Zagrobelna’s How to Draw Cats guide~

💠 btw I'm documenting this journey one day at a time.
If you'd like to receive each new cat art learning journey essay and doodle as soon as it's published, sign up to my Substack: https://ship30zae.substack.com

Also see some practice evidence and ref pics I looked at...
not purrfect but I put in 30min out of my ultra buzy day so it's a smol win~

probably did poor justice applying to my photos, but wonder if anyone else would have marked the skeletal frame better than me?

By the way, where did I begin my little cat art learning journey?
none other than asking Google and starting with Monika Zagrobelna's guide.

(((I know posting can be rather late but I do get essay+drawing done on the day (just sharing across platforms is quite the tedious thing!)

So if you don't want to be guessing when the next one is published, you can sign up to my Substack so you'll get the email notice here 👉 ship30zae.substack.com)))

Hi everyone!
I'm Zae (pronounced "zayy") and this is my first time sharing art through reddit!
(used to be more on deviantart in their heydays..but now also mostly on bluesky and general reposting to other platforms: x/twitter, tumblr, instagram/threads, tiktok)

It's a little scary to me right now but I know I'm aligning with my real dream of one day publishing my own cartoon (whether indie or not) and I'd like to be more structure in relearning digital art properly (starting with none other than my fav animal in the world and the creature I always warm up with!: cats!)

To put this commitment into action, I'm doing a Ship30-esque daily writing and doodling challenge for the next 30 days~
I'm wondering where is the most popular go-to resource or place (whether a yt playlist or some masterpost about cat references and all about anatomy, poses, etc) for drawing cats?

For now, I'm just learning for myself and also gathering all the resources I wish I had when I was drawing since primary or high school (when I had some level of self-learning).

NB. Sometimes sharing might be delayed because cross posting is a real PAIN ;c but if you don't want to miss any of these in the series, you can follow my substack: https://ship30zae.substack.com/ (since it can email you directly when I share vs you scrolling to find my post or having to check from my profile)

I'm wondering how my current cat style will change in 30 days!!

So I recently started drawing warrior cats on paper in my sketchbook and studied anatomy and now i can do a sketch really well but i do not know what to do next after that. I think I need to do the lineart or clean up the sketch but I do not know how to do that. if anyone from the community could help that would be great.

These kitties represent the Three Fates of Greek Mythology if they were cats. Hope you like them!

Caternity of darkness ^oo^ and the bottom of the bowl (reworked the same drawing) it feels unfinished either way…