Smiling Giraffe Face Close Up Coloring Page

One giraffe face fills this entire sheet. It is drawn head on, from the horns down to the top of the neck, and the scale means every feature is large enough for a very young child to manage.

Two horns rise from the crown, each capped with a rounded knob, with a small ruffled tuft of hair between them. The ears are long leaf shapes angled out to either side. Below them sit two big eyes with heavy curved lashes, and beneath those a broad rounded muzzle holding two solid oval nostrils and a short curved smile.

The face is deliberately left plain. There is no patterning across the cheeks or forehead, just clean unbroken contours, which means the whole muzzle can be filled in a single flat color and still look finished. A short section of neck shows at the bottom of the page, cropped by the edge, carrying two or three open spots as a hint of the coat.

Because the shapes are few and very large, this is about as simple as line art gets. It also prints well at any size and works pasted onto card for a mask, since the outline of the head is one continuous line.