Multiple Tiered Waterfall In Lush Greenery Coloring Page
A staircase of four separate falls, each with its own pool and ferns spilling over every ledge.
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Instead of one drop, this waterfall comes down in a staircase. Four separate shelves step down the picture, each with its own small pool, and ferns and trailing plants spill over every ledge. The artist has textured the wet rock with short broken strokes and drawn each tier's water with its own direction of flow, so the eye travels down the page the way the water does. It is a detailed sheet aimed at adults and older teenagers.
Because the composition already steps downward, you can use color to reinforce it. Try making each tier slightly darker than the one above, so the bottom pool is your deepest tone. Keep the greenery varied rather than uniform, and let a few ferns go almost yellow where light would hit them. Fineliner-friendly paper and sharp pencils matter on this one, as several of the fern fronds are only a millimeter or two wide.
Tiered falls like this form where the riverbed runs across bands of rock with different hardness. Soft layers wear away faster than hard ones, and over thousands of years the river carves itself a set of natural steps.
