Saltine
Ship's cat- Sails with a small fishing boat
- Has never once been seasick
- Sleeps in the coil of rope at the bow
Free cat OC generator
Cat OC Maker & Creator
This free cat OC creator paints your cat for you. Pick a form, from house cat and kitten to anthro, cat-eared, fantasy or emoji cat, choose a coat pattern and a job, set the fur and eye colors, and get your cat OC as full-body art.
- No drawing skills needed
- 10 bonus credits when you sign up
- First image free
- Orange tabby, white socks
- Cat café greeter
- Bell on a blue collar
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Ideas
Cat OC ideas to start from
Stuck on a coat or a name? Load one of these cats into the cat OC creator, then change the form, the pattern or the colors until the cat feels like yours.
Tapioca
Café kitten- Youngest greeter at the cat café
- Falls asleep inside the tip jar
- Thinks every customer came for her
Pennywhistle
Anthro cat- Maps every rooftop in the old town
- Names stars after his favorite snacks
- Afraid of exactly one pigeon
Tilly Quillon
Cat-eared- Shelves books faster than anyone
- Her tail knocks over the returns pile
- Shushes people, then purrs sorry
Cirrus
Winged cat- A witch's familiar who can't fly yet
- Wings only lift her when she is happy
- Keeps starlight in her collar vial
Jellybean
Emoji cat- Started out as a stack of emoji
- Skates the alley every evening
- Waves at everyone, even pigeons
Art styles
One cat, every style
Kumquat Copperbell, an orange tabby café cat with white socks and a bell on a blue collar, drawn five ways from the same description. Switch the art style in the generator to do the same with your OC, or ask for a reference sheet with front, side and back views of the coat.
Know the rules
Cat OC forms, explained
The form decides everything else: whether your cat wears clothes, has paws or hands, and how fans read it at a glance. Pick one, then the coat pattern and the job.
- tabby patterns: mackerel, classic, ticked, spotted
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- tabby patterns: mackerel, classic, ticked, spotted
- of ginger cats are male
- ~75%
- of ginger cats are male
- the calico becomes Maryland state cat
- 2001
- the calico becomes Maryland state cat
- cat-face emoji added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
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- cat-face emoji added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Sources: Tabby cat (Wikipedia); Calico cat (Wikipedia); Emoticons (Unicode block) (Wikipedia)
House cat
A real cat on four legs, so the coat does the talking. Real coat genetics are a good guide: the orange gene sits on the X chromosome, so calico and tortoiseshell cats are almost always female and roughly three in four ginger cats are male. Every tabby has an M-shaped marking on its forehead.
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Kitten
Kittens open their eyes seven to ten days after birth, and those eyes start out blue before the adult color comes in, so blue eyes suit a young kitten OC. Draw a round face, big ears and oversized paws, and give the kitten one thing it is far too small for.
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Anthro cat
An anthro cat stands on two legs, wears clothes and uses its paws like hands. The idea is centuries old: Charles Perrault published the best-known version of Puss in Boots in 1697. Keep the cat head, fur, whiskers and tail so it still reads as a cat in any outfit.
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Cat-eared human
In Japan, cat ears and a tail on a human are called nekomimi, literally "cat ears". Manga such as Princess Knight (1953) and Star of Cottonland (1978) helped turn cat-eared characters from monsters into cute, friendly ones. Match the ears and tail to the hair, and let the tail show the mood.
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Fantasy cat
Magic cats are old folklore. In Japanese tales, a cat that lives for many years grows a second tail and becomes a nekomata, a cat yōkai. Give a fantasy cat one clear magic trait, like wings, a second tail or a glow, and keep everything else a cat.
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Emoji cat
Unicode 6.0 added nine cat-face emoji in 2010, from the grinning cat to the weary cat. Emoji cat OCs grew out of TikTok and YouTube from around late 2021: fans build a cat from emoji, with white hearts for ears, circles for the head, hands and eyes and squares for the body, then add hair, outfits and accessories.
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Names and accessories
Name your cat, pick a signature accessory
A cat OC name can be cute, fancy or both, and fans remember a cat by the one thing it always wears. Mix a name from a cute first name and a fantasy surname, then pick an accessory. None of the pairings is a famous cat, and every click goes straight onto your cat in the generator.
Cat name mixer
cute name + fantasy surname
Signature accessories
Pick the one thing your cat never goes without.
Guide
How to make a cat OC
A cat OC is easy to start and easy to make generic. These five decisions keep yours recognizable; the cat OC maker handles the drawing.
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Pick the form before anything else
A house cat, a kitten, an anthro cat, a cat-eared human, a fantasy cat and an emoji cat are drawn in completely different ways. The form decides whether your cat wears clothes, holds things in paws or hands, and which details matter most.
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Choose a coat that tells the truth, or breaks it on purpose
Real patterns like tabby, tuxedo, calico and colorpoint make a cat believable, and they follow real genetics: a calico or tortoiseshell is almost always a she-cat. Lavender or pastel pink fur reads as fantasy, which suits a winged or emoji cat better than a house cat.
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Give the cat a job and a place
A café greeter, a ship's cat, a library cat or a street cat who knows every shortcut comes with a setting, a routine and people to meet. Pick one Role and one Background, and your cat already has a story to step into.
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Add one signature accessory
Fans spot a cat by its collar bell, its scarf or its charm long before they read its name. Choose one accessory with a color that stands out against the fur, and keep it on the cat in every picture.
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Name it, then check it against famous cats
Food and fruit names suit cute cats, and a fantasy surname makes them sound grand. Search the name with the word "cat" before you post: names like Luna, Salem, Felix or Figaro already belong to famous cats.
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FAQ
Cat OC maker FAQ
Yes. Signing up gives you bonus credits for one free image, subject to availability; the free preview carries an occreator.org watermark. A purchase unlocks your remaining bonus credits. No card is needed to sign up.
A Picrew or dress-up OC cat maker stacks parts one artist drew, so every cat shares the same pose and pieces. This cat OC creator paints a new picture from your choices, so the coat, the accessory and the pose come out as your own. Think of it as a cat OC generator that does the drawing for you.
OC means original character, so a cat OC is a cat character you invented yourself. It can be a house cat, a kitten, an anthro cat that walks on two legs, a human with cat ears and a tail, a fantasy cat with wings or a round emoji cat. Pick one in the Cat form field.
The Coat pattern field has tabby, tuxedo, calico, tortoiseshell, colorpoint, solid, spotted and bicolor. Calico and tortoiseshell cats are almost always female, about three in four ginger cats are male, and every tabby has an M-shaped marking on its forehead. Click a pattern again to clear it and describe a rarer one, like smoke or van, in Extra details.
Yes, as a picture. Emoji cat OCs spread on TikTok and YouTube from around late 2021. The classic one is built from emoji: white hearts for ears, circles for the head, hands and eyes, squares for the body and letters for the mouth, often layered in Ibis Paint. Pick Emoji cat in the Cat form field to get a drawn cat with that round, simple look. It makes an image, not emoji you can type into a chat.
Medicine cats are the healers of the Warrior Cats books, and their names work like any Clan name: a prefix plus a suffix. The difference is the ceremony: a medicine cat apprentice gets a full name from their mentor at the half-moon meeting at the Moonpool or Moonstone, not from the leader. Use the Warriors name mixer on our Warrior Cats OC maker to build one; a plant or herb prefix suits a healer.
You can make a cat in the same spirit. Nyan Cat is the Pop-Tart cat with a rainbow trail that Christopher Torres animated in April 2011, so copying that exact cat is fan art of his character. For your own, pick Fantasy or Emoji cat, write a space background in Extra details, and give the cat its own snack body and its own trail, like a cinnamon bun leaving a trail of stars.
The Role field has café cat, witch's familiar, street cat, explorer, ship's cat, library cat and lucky cat. Several come from real life: cats have long sailed on ships to keep rodents out of the stores, the first cat café opened in Taipei in 1998, and the maneki-neko lucky cat figurine is traditionally a calico with one paw raised.
Give your cat one strength, one real flaw and one thing it wants. The usual trap is stacking rare traits on one cat: odd eyes, rainbow fur, wings, magic powers and a tragic past. Keep one rare trait, make the rest ordinary, and let the cat be bad at something, like climbing back down a tree.
Yes. Set Output to Ref sheet for front, side and back views with palette swatches, which is the easiest way to show where the stripes, patches and white socks go. Keep the Plain background so the coat pattern reads clearly.
Yes. Keep Anime for the cute cartoon look of this page, pick Semi-real for a painted, lifelike cat, Chibi for a round big-headed one, 3D for a soft toy-like render or Sketch for pencil art. Drawing the same cat in two styles is a quick way to get both an icon and a full illustration.
Yes. A cat you designed yourself is yours to post, use as a profile picture or sell, and we don't claim your OCs. Just don't copy famous cats: Garfield, Hello Kitty, Pusheen, Nyan Cat, Grumpy Cat, Puss in Boots, Luna and Artemis, Jiji, Salem and Cat Noir all belong to their owners. For a cat set in someone else's world, like the Clans or Miraculous, use the Warrior Cats or Miraculous OC maker and follow that series' fan art rules.
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