Anime Boy With A Spiky Hairstyle Coloring Page

This boy is drawn in chibi proportions, so his head takes up nearly half the sheet and his body sits small and stocky underneath it. His hair sweeps up and back into nine tall points, each one a clean closed shape you can fill a shade apart if you want the light to read from one side. He stands square on with both hands pushed into his trouser pockets, an open jacket over a plain shirt, cuffed hems and high-top sneakers with the laces drawn in. The line weight is heavy and there is a lot of white space, so a five year old can stay inside the lines with a fat crayon while an older child works the smaller shapes: the two jacket buttons, the shoe eyelets, the short hatch marks on each cheek. Hair is the decision that changes the whole page. Flat black is the manga default, but a warm orange or a cool blue gray both look right and are far easier to keep even across nine points. Shonen, the label for manga aimed at young boys, is where this spiky silhouette comes from, and the height of the hair is usually shorthand for how much energy the character is supposed to have.