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Draw a Cat - How to Draw a Cat in Graphite Pencil

By Helen South, About.com

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Shading Mid Tones in the Fur

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Using a B pencil, begin shading the mid-toned areas. Use a blending stump instead of your fingers to carefully smudge over and even out the shading. Where you have light fur against dark, use short strokes going against the direction of fur growth, leaving tiny spaces between the pencil marks for the light fur.

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