Basketball Bouncing on the Court Coloring Page

Two elements, and the space between them is the subject. A basketball floats in the upper half of the sheet, drawn large with its curved seam lines sweeping around the surface, and below it a wooden floor stretches away in long boards that narrow as they recede. That perspective is unusual for a simple sheet and it gives the picture real depth for very little line work. The floorboards run in dozens of thin parallel strips with short grain marks between them, and they are the part that takes time. Alternating two close wood tones every few boards reads far better than a single flat brown and turns the floor into the most convincing thing on the page. The ball above is left with plenty of open space inside each panel. Because it hangs clear of the floor with nothing touching it, a child can add a shadow underneath to show how high it has bounced, which is an easy way to make the drawing feel alive.