Panda Cub Chewing a Bamboo Leaf Coloring Page

This cub arrives half finished, and that is worth knowing before you print it. The eye patches, the ears, the nose and the paw pads are all filled in solid black, which is what makes a panda recognizable but also means those areas are fixed. What is left is the white of the coat, the bamboo and the background, so the sheet works best as an exercise in shading rather than in color choice. A very light gray worked into the belly and along the underside of the arms gives the body some roundness against all that black. The cub sits upright holding a small sprig in one paw and lifting a leaf toward its open mouth. On the right a bamboo stalk climbs the full height of the page, segmented into sections by ringed joints with slim leaves branching off at each one. That stalk is the most rewarding part and it takes two greens nicely. Both back feet face forward with their pads showing.