Maltese Puppy With Silky White Fur Coloring Page

The coat is the reason to pick this maltese. It falls from the crown of the head all the way to the paws in long tapered strokes that curve gently outward, and every one of those strokes is drawn as an open line rather than as printed shading.

Two soft ears hang down past the jaw and frame the face, each covered in the same flowing hair as the body. The eyes are round and filled dark, set wide apart above a broad nose, and a short muzzle sits between them with the mouth drawn as a simple curve. Four paws rest along the bottom edge with the toes separated by small curved lines.

The background is left completely bare, so nothing competes with the animal for attention.

A real maltese coat is white, which makes this a good sheet for anyone who wants to practice tone rather than color. Choose one very pale shade and lay it across the whole body, then work a slightly deeper version of the same shade into the spaces between the hair strokes. The coat will start to read as layered rather than flat, and the printed strokes do most of the work for you.