Adorable Whimsical Cats in Watercolor - Easy Beginners Tutorial and saying hi to our cats!

[Music] hi everyone Diane here welcome to my studio where we paint easy and relaxing little paintings every day today we're painting Whimsical cats if you're new here please watch and enjoy I keep these videos easy and real so even total beginners can succeed and be thrilled with their results and if you're interested in becoming a member of my patreon where we have exclusive videos every month which don't come up on YouTube plus lots of other features to help you learn watercolor just click on the patreon Link in the description below this video so today I'm painting cats in a fun and easy Whimsical style I have five cats and they often show up in the videos so keep an eye out for them you never know when they're going to pop up so now we'll get started on our painting of whimsical cats for today so I'm just drawing with the brush I'm going to paint three cats using the pale colors of Kaki art Novo this one is a very light ivory color you could use any paint really and just paint a a sort of oval and then pick a color that you think kind of compliments the one you've just done um so how about a sort of dark pink or a bit more Mish perhaps see we going to do his ears top of the head feet nose and I think I'll do the tail on the other side and we're going to come in with um some pen in a minute so this one's going to have brown ears too and I'm going to put the tail around in front and feet here something of a nose like that and going to let that all kind of run and then we'll put some details do you think he needs a bit more body perhaps he does so for the details I'll probably use cuz it's handy I'll use this kiraki Tombo pen which is a calligraphy pen as you know does thick and thin lines so what I'm going to do is I'm going to let that dry and then I'm going to come back and do the next thing okay so that's dry now and I've changed my mind actually about the pen I'm going to use a a 0.1 fine liner for this and uh what I'm going to do first of all is I'm just going to outline my pushy cats and and make them look kind of casual and hopefully fluffy and I'm not going right up to you know where the lines are of paint I'm just kind of I don't know I'm playing it's it's fun relax so we go you know this is what you could call um uh what you could call call I don't know what you could call it actually um going to put some dark on the inside of it I don't know what's going to be called because I don't know how it's going to turn out and I think his nose is going to be here and if I remember rightly cats have a kind of little nose like that and then little face like that and then we need to put some Dots here and then we'll put their whiskers in and I think I put the whiskers in before I do the eyes and then we we'll just do some little eyes here something like that so super easy nothing complex and this one here is going to be similar and I'm just going to break the line up a little bit as I go around him cuz he's a bit fluffier let's give him some nice big PES as well when you do something like this you you can just practice your sketching is just I'm actually working on some rough watercolor paper rather than um do a little heart for the nose and then you can do a little smiley face and then a little eyes doesn't have to have a lot of detail in the eyes you don't have to have the dots for the whisker holes can just do whiskers coming straight out like that and you know you can Define the legs a little bit more if you want the other legs you can't see this is the back feet and now we have this one and he's got lovely big py pores as well give him some claws oh I didn't do his it's a fluffy one and he's got a little heart-shaped nose a little curly smile and his eyes you can give them eyebrows if you want want to give them a little bit more expression you know this one's a bit sanguin this one's a bit amused and this one's a bit cross and then we could have them standing on the ground but of course being cats they like to be in trees or in dirt in dust and sand so we'll put these ones in the midst of a forest of leaves something like that and we could color them in if we wanted to but we don't have to so there's our three cats nice and easy and um done with art Novo we could put a little bit of green in the leaves of the don't know whether that will look better or worse let's just pop in a little bit of green keep that really light okay and uh maybe now we'll do something slightly different I just put this one over here and I'll get some more paper all right this is um 100% cotton as well this is CLA Fontaine Fontaine paper this is hot pressed and I'm going to do some uh cats in a slightly different way now the way we did if you remember we did some sheep not long ago um and I could draw the outline of the sheep first in pencil perhaps uh cats rather and what I'm going to do is the following let's see that's a colored pencil we don't want that just want an ordinary pencil so the same as what we just did a big fat cats and it's going to have a tail here and we'll put that ears this one's going to have a tail going this way and this one's going to have a tail going that way okay so let's do them in some nice bright colors relatively bright going to use the same set and I'm just going to paint them in and tail slightly contrasty this is fantasy cats and the feet and the ears okay next cap is going to be bright pink relatively because you know the art Novo colors none of them are really bright but this is a nice pink cat obviously a girl unless she's a boy and we want a darker pink so let's add a bit of red make darker pink feet ears nose and the third one let's [Music] um let's go for o something I want the white to show up on so can we can we go for the purple or this color perhaps I know it looks a bit dark but we're going to liven it up if you haven't tried painting on hot Prest paper it I honestly suggest that you do because it's completely different a very different feeling and it's worth giving it a try feet oh yes and we need to make his ears a bit darker and his nose there we are okay now we'll let that dry and we come back in with some pens okay let's move the paints out the way a bit move this over here go away brusher um and I want my pen and what we're going to do is first of all get rid of the lines so now we've got rid of our guidelines and uh I use my shaving brush to brush them away and you can see which ones you missed so same kind of idea I'm going to start off by going around their ears like I did on the other one and put the little nose and eyes and then I've I've got my um uh light wish are they a light wish product acrylic markers anyway and I'm going to use these to paint over where I want to make it lighter like that so I'm going to put a little bit of light on his nose and then I'm going to put some stripes on the tail and put some little putties on the pores like that and you can then go for a darker color a little bit darker and we can give him some spots just to make fun like that then we'll carry on with our uh fine liner and we'll just give him some spiky bits on his tail and we can give him some light there too okay now for this one I'm going to do some bright pink for the center there and I'm just going to do that for that and then I'm going to do some stripes on his tail too or her tail perhaps I should say and you can explore that a little bit more then we will do different face and let's put wonder if I can manage to do some little hearts yep that's okay we put some little hearts on her the great thing about these acrylic pens is that they just go over the top of anything and they look absolutely super and for this one I'm hoping that the white is going to work so that I can lighten up the center of his ears like that yeah that's okay and then we'll put a nose on like that and and oh I didn't give her any fluffy bits did I I don't know about your cats but my cats have of often got their fur standing up um okay and a little heart-shaped nose and a mouth like that and four whiskers is probably enough like that and little eyes I've got a cat who has the exact same face and we put some little spiky bits on him there we are and let me see I think he obviously wants a pale color doesn't he what have we got we got a nice pale pink here we can put um circles so we need a darker pink for the tail these are great these things there we are oh yes just go in the center of those isn't that fun isn't that absolutely the funnest thing and we can just have them standing on something like that with the occasional flower and we're done so there we are two sets of cats we have the traditional wet and wet Siamese cats that we did once before and then they've got their cousins who have come to visit who are three funky cats who I think they come from the same Planet as our sheep so I hope you enjoyed that give it a try it's really easy and um I'll put links to all of these products in the description below and hopefully you'll enjoy having a try with these they'd make wonderful um birthday cards for somebody or bookmarks or any I think this would make a very nice birthday card I think I might send this one to my sister H okay I'll let you go they're really sweet actually I'm really quite pleased with those what do you think not bad eh right I'll see you again soon bye for now everybody bye-bye [Music] I'm just going to have a catnap it's okay it's just lty potty Hello Trouble me I know I no no no no no sorry Orel oh ly