Basking Shark With Wide Open Mouth Filter Feeding Coloring Page
A shark lifts its head clear of the waterline with its mouth open, drawn in loose sketchy strokes across an otherwise bare sheet.
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The line work on this sheet is looser than most, and that gives it a different character. Strokes are slightly uneven, the outline wobbles where it turns, and a few lines overshoot their corners. It looks handmade rather than machined, which suits the subject well.
A single long horizontal line crosses the entire width of the page as the waterline. The animal's head and shoulder rise above it while the body and fins stay below, so the drawing is cut into two halves that can be treated in completely different ways. Make the lower half submerged and dim, the upper half sunlit, and the page gains depth from one decision.
The mouth is wide open on a full row of dark teeth, drawn as heavy triangles that arrive already filled in. Nothing needs to be done to them.
Everything else is bare paper. There are no waves, no bubbles and no seabed, so the water is whatever a colorist chooses to make it.
Real basking sharks are filter feeders with tiny teeth. This drawing gives its subject a full set, and it is the more dramatic for the liberty.
