Realistic Cobra With Its Hood Spread Wide Coloring Page

A cobra raises the front third of its body off the ground and spreads its hood, which is the pose everyone pictures when they hear the word. A real cobra opens that hood by swinging long ribs outward under the skin, and it only bothers when something has worried it.

Look at where the detail actually sits. The raised throat carries a ladder of wide horizontal bands running from the coil up to the jaw, and the hood behind it is edged with fine scale work, so the standing part of this animal is the busiest area on the page rather than the emptiest. The coiled body below is denser still, packed with small diamond scales the whole way around the ring.

That leaves the head as the one broad calm shape. Keep it light and the eye stays the first thing anybody looks at.

The tongue reaches out long and forked over empty paper to the left.

Work the throat bands in two alternating tones and hold the ground coil darker, and the snake will look as though it is standing up off the page.