Giraffe and Zebra Standing Together Coloring Page

Two savanna animals share this page and they are drawn in deliberately different ways. On the left a tall cartoon giraffe stands facing you with its long neck held upright, a bristly mane running down the back of it, and round open spots scattered over the neck, body and legs. Its face has two large eyes, a small smiling mouth and two horns capped with knobs.

On the right stands a zebra of about the same height, and its stripes are inked in solid rather than left open. Thick black bands wrap the neck, barrel and legs, the upright mane is striped to match, and all four hooves are filled in. What that leaves a colorist is the white between the bands, which is a very different job from the giraffe beside it: narrow repeating slivers instead of big rounded fields.

Both animals stand on one straight ground line with nothing behind them, so the pair reads clearly on the paper. Putting them next to each other also makes the size and shape comparison easy to talk about with a child, from the giraffe's stretched neck down to the zebra's short upright one. It suits a kid who likes a page with two things happening instead of one.