How to Draw Squishy Cats and Kittens A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing Totally Floofy Felines and Their Worlds

by Kay, Vera

• ISBN13: 9780760393468
• ISBN10: 076039346X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-03-25
• Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing

Summary

Calling all cat people! Channel your feline fervor with these step-by-step drawing projects and coloring pages filled with adorable kitties.

From Vera Kay, a rising young artist who goes by @veekachoo online, How to Draw Squishy Cats and Kittens teaches you to draw cats in all kinds of cute positions and situations, including sitting, snuggling, sleeping, swatting, and more. This fun book is divided into chapters focusing on:

• Degrees of cat fur floofiness and how to add it
• Adding color to line art
• Common cat poses
• Cats and their kingdoms
• A squishy kitty birthday party!

Each chapter comes with a coloring page and is filled with helpful instruction and tips for drawing cats, both digitally and with traditional drawing tools. Veekachoo’s hundreds of thousands of online followers give her lots of positive feedback and often credit her art with inspiring them to start drawing. This is the first book from this trending artist whose career continues to grow through her social media channels and online classes.

Cat lovers, rejoice! This book is for you!

Author Biography

Vera Kay is @veekachoo on her social media channels, where she’s built a large following that loves her cute, quirky drawings of cats. A young digital creator, she’s originally from Australia and has an undergraduate degree in law but worked as a professional equestrian before moving to a small village in northern France to pursue art full-time. Cats are her creative inspiration, and her drawings spark joy in viewers.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Drawing School

Drawing Tools and Materials

Drawing Tips for the Squishiest Floofs

Drawing Digitally

Warming Up Before Drawing

Degrees of Floof Explained and How to Add Floof

Degrees of Floof Explained

Hairless

Oriental

Short-Haired

Medium-Haired

Long-Haired

Really Long-Haired

How to Add Floof

Floof Salon: Coloring Page

Adding Color

Coloring on Paper and Digitally

Coloring White Cats and Black Cats

Coloring Gray Cats

Double the Fun: Coloring Two-Color Cats

Coloring Calico Cats

Coloring Tortoiseshell Cats

Coloring Tabby Cats

Coloring Siamese Cats

Coloring Bengal Cats

What Color Is Your Favorite Cat?: Coloring Page

Common Cat Poses

Sitting Kitty

Standing Kitty

Fluffy Butt

Side Sitty Kitty

Sleeping Mewty

Long Lounger

Donut Cat

Tummy Twist

Tummy Trap

Spicy Kitten

Playful Paw-swat

Zoomies

Snuggle Puddle

Playful Tussle

Bird Watching

Belly Rubs

Loaf

Sleeping Mewties: Coloring Page

Cats and Their Kingdoms

Potty Paws

Pantry Prowler

Tabletop Explorer

About-to-Drop-Something Cat

Sleeping-on-Laptop Cat

Tiny Cat on a Big Bed

Pillow Napper

Cat in a Box

Cat on a Sunny Windowsill

Wi-Fi Router Cat

Squishy Cat Haven: Coloring Page

Squishy Cat Birthday Party

Cats in Birthday Hats

Cat with Cake

Kitten and Streamers

Cat in a Gift Bag

All Partied Out: Coloring Page

About the Artist