Howler Monkey Calling From the Treetops Coloring Page

A howler sits on a bare diagonal branch with its mouth open mid call. The jaw drops a long way, and that is anatomy rather than cartoon exaggeration. The bone structure under the throat works like a sounding box and pushes the call several miles through closed forest. Howlers are the loudest land animal in the Americas.

Almost everything worth doing on this sheet sits in the fur. It is built from dense directional strokes following the curve of the back and shoulder, with paper showing between them. Layer two browns along the stroke direction and the fur gains real depth. Fight those strokes with a flat fill and the texture disappears, so go with them instead.

Bare twigs reach in from one side and a handful of small leaves drift across the open paper. They are deliberately sparse, because the animal is meant to hold the page on its own.

Allow proper time for this one. It is the densest realistic sheet in the set and it rewards a pencil far more than a marker, which floods the gaps between the fur strokes and flattens everything at once.