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Cat Head Three-Quarter View: Reference Photos
Reference photos of cat heads in three-quarter view: the head turned between fifty and seventy degrees from the camera. That is halfway between facing the camera and showing a full side profile. The turn goes to the left in some photos and to the right in others.
wellflat1985, CC BY 
keiichi.yasu, CC BY-SA 
Gunnar Ries zwo, CC BY-SA 
Vernon Fridy, CC BY 
eliduke, CC BY-SA 
Darío Calvente Viera, CC BY Maria Teneva, Unsplash License 
Nico Hernandez, CC BY 
Nonbinary-Naturalist, CC0 1.0 
りなべる, CC BY 
William Harland, CC BY 
hisashi_0822, CC BY-SA
What changes at this angle
- The far eye reads narrower than the near eye and sits close to the outline.
- The near ear shows the inside of its cup while the far ear shows mostly its back.
- The near cheek bulges against the outline, and the far cheek is hidden behind the muzzle.
- The forehead turns away between the eyes, so the centre line of the face from the brow to the nose curves.
- The near nostril shows in full and the far nostril is partly hidden by the nose.
What goes wrong
- Drawing both eyes the same size and shape, so the head reads as a front view and the muzzle seems bent to one side.
- Drawing both ear openings facing the viewer, so the ears read as pinned to the picture and the head looks flat as a mask.
- Drawing a straight centre line on a turned head, so the face reads as a flat plate rather than a rounded skull.
- Drawing two equal nostrils, so the nose reads as a front view stamped onto a turned head.
Try it
Open the animal head search at the same angle, filtered to cat, and turn the skull yourself to compare other turns.