Learn How to Draw A Cat

FREE Lesson: How to Draw a Cat

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The above video is of course, a quick demo on how to draw a house cat but, there are many types of felines aren’t there? I have a full class on on How to Draw Big Cats where I cover drawing lions, tigers, cheetahs, cougars & more. The course is 11+ Hours and includes lessons on drawing muscles, bones, full and more. I have a FREE Sneak Peek of the class below.

How to Draw Nala

Did You Know that I Designed & Animated Young Nala in “The Lion King” ?

It’s true! A BIG part of the reason that I am so comfortable drawing cats is because as an animator at Disney I have had to draw them thousands of times. FUN FACT: Nala’s eyes are based on my daughter, Austin. In the picture below you can see me doing some animation work on the movie. On my shelf you can see a photo of her & I when she was a baby.

She always looked at me with these big, beautiful eyes and I worked hard to get that into the character. She’s a grown woman now but she still tells everyone that she is Nala!

How to Draw Rajah from Aladdin

While Nala is one of my favorite characters that I created she wasn’t my first cat in a Disney movie. I was also the character designer of Rajah the tiger in Aladdin. He is of course princess Jasmine’s best friend and protector. Above is a quick little video where I show you how to draw him. And the below are a few early test images of both Nala & Rajah. Thes cats were so much fun to draw.

If you are looking to learn how to draw cats people, animals or cartoon characters you are in the right place. We have over 500 Hours of premium, high quality art tutorials & animation lessons. We offer both paid premium courses as well as hundreds more hours of free content from our YouTube Channel.

How to Draw with Aaron Blaise This site was founded by Aaron Blaise. Aaron is an Oscar nominated animator & director. He has worked on films such as The Lion King, Beauty & The Beast, Mulan, Brother Bear & More. Aaron is also an internationally known character design and wildlife artist. In addition, to Aaron we also offer course by several other top-level pros in the art, animation and film industries.

Aaron has spent a life time building his “visual library” and learning illustration, animation and art. Drawing Animals is his passion.

Learn to Draw More Animals:

We have over 200 hours of animal drawing lessons. Below are links to some of the course as well as some of our FREE tutorials available on our YouTube Channel.

Just A few Examples of Selected Animal Drawings by some of our teachers:

How to Draw Cartoons

If you want to learn to draw cartoons we have several lessons on that! Including drawing cartoon animals, drawing cartoon people & more. Several of these lessons are taught by acclaimed artist and animation director, Tim Hodge! In addition, we have a very popular Character Design Course that teaches you to draw characters designed for animation and film.

Plus, we have a class on Animal Character Design taught to you by Emmy Award winning artist, David Colman

Learn to Animate

Probably, the biggest difference from our website than other art education sites is the quality and focus of our ANIMATION LESSONS! You can learn directly from Disney Trained artist & animator Aaron Blaise, as well as several other award winning artists and professional. Follow along in easy to follow videos that you can watch at your own pace.

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Basics Of Drawing & Beyond!

Cartooning, Illustration, Animation – What do these all have in common? Well, they all require a good understanding of how to draw. In order to get better at your craft you need to understand the basics. We have several classes to teach various art fundamentals to you. These Include Drawing Basics with Ronnie Williford as well as classes on Perspective Drawing, Color Theory, How to Draw Portraits and more.


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Lesson Previews:

The videos below are selected lessons from various courses.
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