About the artist, Melissa Schatzmann

PLEASE NOTE:

I have left this tutorial online as it seems to be quite popular, however,
I have compiled much more elaborate online tutorials for beginners,
intermediate and advanced in animated, step by step, detailed instructions
which will soon be available at www.drawinginpencil.com

	8. This step may be a little tricky. Don't worry that it doesn't end up exactly like mine. At this stage we want to shade in the darker areas of the cat's fur. When I say 'darker' I don't necessarily mean black. Shade to form a dark grey. 9. Let's first start with the bottom portion of the cat. Make sure you shade in the direction of how hair grows at all times. So in this case, shade outwards beside the cat's nose and then slowly change your direction to a downwards motion as you get closer to the outside of the cat's head. Click here for close-up. 10. Now for the top portion of the cat's head. This can look familiar to other animals in the cat family such as the stripes on a tiger. Click here for a closer view.
	11. At this stage, we want to shade in the entire cat but the trick is to make sure you shade in the direction of which the cat's hair grows (if you have a cat, take a closer look at the hair direction). Don't shade darker than the dark grey that you had just mapped out for the darker areas. Make sure it's at least one or two shades lighter. 12. Blend the entire cat's head lightly with a tortillion in the same direction as the hair grows. 13. Grab your kneaded eraser and warm it up in your hand. Pull and stretch it out while rolling ti for a minute or two (this will help take out some of the pencil from the paper).Press down an edge of your kneaded eraser to that it's flattened out. Now lightly pull out (in the same direction as the hair grows) to take out some highlighted areas the cat's fur. Take a look at the photograph to see the lighter parts of the fur.
	14. In this stage, you may have to grab your pencil again to shade in the mapped out areas of the darker shade of the fur again. Sometimes they get 'lost' with all the shading and blending. 15. Also, darken around the eyes and pupils again and dab out those highlights again with the kneaded eraser. 16. With the edge of the clickable eraser stroke out the whiskers and the white hairs that are in the cat's ears. (Remember, to keep looking at your photograph). Click for the closer view of the cat's ears. 17. Congratulations you are done!