Giraffe at the Watering Hole Coloring Page

The watering hole on this sheet is a wide shallow oval drawn with two nested outlines, lying flat across the lower part of the paper. The giraffe stands at it rather than bending to drink, hooves at the near edge, head up and turned to the right with its mouth slightly open.

Its spots are drawn as blunt polygons instead of circles, large across the barrel and shoulder and smaller down the neck and legs. A braided looking mane runs the length of the neck, and the tail hangs behind with a dark tuft. The face is simple: one wide eye with a lash, a scatter of dots on the cheek, and a rounded muzzle.

A horizon line crosses behind the animal, which separates the open ground from the pool and gives you a reason to use two different tones on what would otherwise be one flat area. The pool itself takes a wash of blue easily because its inner outline leaves a band around the rim.

The whole thing is drawn in clean, heavy line with no small detail to lose, so it holds up to markers as well as pencils. It is a straightforward page that still has somewhere for the animal to be.