Koala Clinging to a Eucalyptus Branch Coloring Page

This koala is drawn side on, which changes how the sheet colors compared to a face on animal. You see one round eye with a white catchlight, one raised eyebrow stroke, a small curved smile and a large solid black nose that fills most of the muzzle. That nose is already inked, so treat it as the fixed dark point of the page and build your tones out from it. The near ear is a big smooth curve tucked against the head, and the far ear reads as a spray of short spiky strokes above it, which is a good place to practice a light tone that fades toward the tips. Below the head the body is one enormous blank curve with no fur lines inside it at all, so a young child can fill it in seconds while an older colorist can build a soft gradient across it. Both arms and one foot wrap a slim eucalyptus stem that runs from the top of the sheet down to the bottom right corner, and three small pointed leaves sprout from it. The background is bare white paper. Nothing on the face arrives pre shaded, so the cheeks stay yours to decide.