Basketball With Bold Seam Lines Coloring Page

One ball, blown up until it nearly touches every margin, and drawn with more care than the usual outline version. Four heavy seams curve across the surface and meet in the way they really do on a ball, dividing it into large panels, and each seam is thick enough to color as its own shape rather than just a line. Inside the panels the artist has stippled the leather with hundreds of small dots and dashes to suggest the pebbled grain, denser near the edges and sparser toward the middle. That texture is the reason to print this one. Laying a light orange over the stipple and leaving the dots showing produces a far more convincing ball than a flat fill ever will. A crayon on its side does the job beautifully. There is nothing else on the sheet, no court, no shadow and no background, so it also works as a template if you want to cut the ball out and mount it.