Realistic Garter Snake Sliding Over Fallen Leaves Coloring Page
A slender garter snake curves above a cluster of broad veined leaves, its belly drawn as a long row of open segments.
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A garter snake is the one most people in North America actually meet, and it is harmless. Here it curves through one long S with a fine tapering tail and its tongue out, and the body is divided into wide belly segments the whole way rather than left as one blank tube. That rhythm is the thing to work with.
The leaves below are not plain shapes. Four broad ones overlap in a cluster above a low fringe of grass, and every leaf carries a thick center rib with side veins branching off it, so each one breaks into several narrow panels instead of filling in a single pass. Allow more time for them than their size suggests.
A clear strip of paper separates the snake from the cluster. It reads as floating above those leaves rather than passing through them.
Take every other belly segment to bring the rhythm out, or run one flat tone from head to tail and let the veined leaves carry all the contrast. Fine tips beat broad ones on the leaf panels.
