#it's not a screenshot redraw AND it's an angle I normally struggle to draw

[eddyneedssleep]

I MADE ACTUAL ART OF HIM LIKE I SAID I WOULD AHAHAHA

OG sketch if you care:

[calypsolemon]

do you have any tips on how you draw kitty and puss? I really like how you draw them and I'm struggling a bit since I don't draw animals alot ( also i don't wanna accidentally fall into the sexualized female anthro animal trope with kitty )

Honestly, before this movie, I didn't have much experience drawing anthro-ish animals, or even just animals in general. One scroll thru my art tag can probably tell you that Im not really much of a furry artist, and I mostly draw people. So starting out attempting the characters, I really just did a bunch of sketchy screenshot redraws, trying to find shots from different angles to get a feel for the proportions and how I personally wanted to stylize them.

(redraws of the doctor scene, practicing him undressed and from the side)

The good thing to note is that if you know how to draw puss, you know how to draw kitty. Kitty is literally a modified model of Puss (all the cats in tlw are, according to the artbook), therefore without accessories their sillouettes are basically identical. This makes sense considering Puss and Kitty are... not really anthro animals? The most humanoid things about them are their paws being slightly more hand-like than is realistic for a cat, and the fact that they stand just a little too straight when on 2 legs. Otherwise they are basically just normal cats. Which means you can also use the internet's extensive plethora of cat images as body reference as well.

(literally cats just look like that when standing like a person. its ridiculous)

So I basically use the same base for both characters. Most of the differentiation of them is in details, for me. I personally make my Kitty have softer angels than Puss, especially in the face. I also give Puss longer, wavier whiskers. But these are all personal stylistic choices. If I were you I'd look to some of the concept art as well. The artbook is really great to have tbh! But obviously if you can't afford that, like 99% of the art in there has been floating around on the web anyways. You can get a better sense for how various artist chose to stylize and simplify the characters, and experiment from there.

(jesus alonso iglesias's puss concept arts. I personally take inspo from these for my own interpretation)

so that's about it? really all this advice boils down to is "use reference and take stylistic choices from other artists" but that's basically how you learn how to draw anything, so mileage may vary. The real answer to this question is go back in time and hand your ten-year-old self a copy of Warriors: Into The Wild so you already have a way to draw cats etched into your psyche.