Capuchin Monkey Sitting on a Jungle Branch Coloring Page

This one is drawn from life rather than from cartoon shorthand. The capuchin sits high on a thick branch with one hand curled over the bark and its tail hanging down past it. Fur runs across the back and shoulders as hundreds of short separate strokes with white paper left between them, so the coat takes shading rather than flat color.

Work the fur in one direction and follow the strokes already there. A brown pencil laid down lightly along those lines, then a second darker pass only on the shoulder and the curve of the back, gives the animal a volume that flat color cannot reach.

The cap of fur on the head is outlined and not filled, which leaves the choice of how dark it goes entirely to you. Capuchins carry that darker crown above a pale face, and the contrast between the two is the feature that identifies the species at a glance.

Pointed leaves stand behind the branch as plain open outlines. Keep them light. If the leaves go in dark the monkey stops being the first thing the eye finds, and on a sheet carrying this much fur detail that would waste the best part of the drawing.