Tiger Pacing Beside Its Pool Coloring Page

A tiger crosses the sheet in profile with its head turned slightly out toward the viewer, and the stripes are the job here. They run in tapered bands down the flank, tighten across the shoulder and hip, break into narrow flicks along the legs, and finish as clean rings around the tail. Most of them arrive as outlines rather than filled shapes, which means you can decide how dark the animal ends up. Filling every stripe gives a bold graphic result. Filling every second one and leaving the rest pale gives something softer and takes half the time. The face carries whisker dots, a small nose and two alert eyes. Behind the tiger a large boulder sits against the top edge with clumps of grass sprouting on both sides, and in front of it the pool spreads across the bottom corner with a few ripple rings on the surface. Keep the water very light. A tiger is already the strongest thing on any page it appears on, and a dark pool underneath it will make the bottom half of the sheet feel heavy.