Angelfish With Patterned Fins Coloring Page

This angelfish is built almost entirely from repetition, which is the whole appeal of the sheet. Rows of scalloped scale outlines run from the gill plate back to the tail base, roughly twenty across and a dozen deep, and each one is a small closed shape waiting for its own decision.

The two long fins are the other half of the design. One sweeps up from the back and one drops from the belly, both tapering to a point, and both are ruled with fine strokes that follow the curve rather than cutting across it. Those strokes sit close together. Anyone working in wax crayon will bridge them, which is fine, but a colored pencil or a fineliner will hold the separation.

A small fan tail sits at the left on a narrow stalk. The pectoral fin opens forward in a tight pleat, and the snout runs out to a blunt point with the eye set high behind it.

Print this one at full size. Reduced onto a smaller sheet, the scale rows close up and stop being colorable at all.

Treat the body as one graded field, light at the belly and deeper along the spine, and the fin ribbons will read as a separate material without any extra work.