Take a Cake

The Princess Pups love cakes and visiting cake shops! Seeing so many different delicious cakes makes it tricky to pick the one to take home though...

The various cakes and their colors were based off of cakes from a local French pastry shop that me and the family love to go!  They also have a lot of macaroons, croissants, and frosted cookies in fun shapes, aaahh!

 

Birthday (Coloring) Party!

It’s September, dang! That means I get a year older and the pups have a party! I mean, they usually have parties…but for the purpose of this month’s coloring pages, it’s a birthday theme! First up are Teacup Pup and Corgi Pup bringing some birthday balloons. They’ve got a tight grip on them and luckily aren’t going to float away!

Teacup Pup and Corgi Pup are wrangling birthday balloons for you to color!

Our other Princess Pup pals are taking in the wonderful sight of birthday cupcakes! Pug Pup, Scruffy Pup, and Fluff Pup are all sporting fun and pointy birthday party hats. I made sure to give each cupcake a different topping to make for a variety of coloring options. I may have had to look up too many delicious reference images of cupcakes in the process though, and I don’t have any at home!

Pug Pup, Scruffy Pup, and Fluff Pup are ready for cupcakes!

I picked this coloring page for this month’s time lapse. See if you can spot when I saw the awful tangent where Scruffy Pup’s eye was touching Fluff Pup’s snout and I absolutely had to fix it! Remember to download these and other coloring pages (including birthday ones) over on the Coloring Pages section!

Ice Cream Social of Coloring?!

Dang, August, where’d you come from? It’s still summery weather for at least another month, so the Princess Pups are throwing an ice cream social and enjoying large quantities of ice cream for this month’s coloring pages! Ice cream parties are some of the best parties!

First up we have Scruffy Pup, Pug Pup and Fluff Pup enjoying bowls of ice cream. But somehow, Scruffy Pup and Pug Pup have a very large bowl filled with very large scoops of ice cream! Good thing Pug Pup brought a very large spoon. Fluff Pup still seems confused about how this happened, including the massive cherry at the top of the sundae, as she enjoys as sensible-sized bowl of ice cream.

Wait, that’s a giant bowl with giant scoops of ice cream, where’d that come from?

Meanwhile, Corgi Pup gets assistance from TeaCup Pup in stacking the perfect ice cream cone! TeaCup Pup enjoys using her magic wand to help her friends. She might be overdoing it though – that stack of scoops is gonna be taller than Corgi Pup! TeaCup Pup should stick with one or two scoops like in a recent comic

So many scoops!

I really like how both of these turned out! The timelapse for the scoopy illustration looked more interesting to me though. Maybe because I felt like I got the the inks the way I wanted them from the sketches of the pups? In either case, I need to buy some ice cream the next time I’m grocery shopping, Really, I should have gotten some for photo references?…Remember there’s these and tons of more coloring pages for you over here!

Princess Pups Coloring Plaza is Available Now!

Hooray! The second collection of Princess Pups coloring pages is available for you to enjoy: Princess Pups Coloring Plaza! I wrapped up the final touches on the layout in mid-June and finally smashed that “publish” button at the end of June!

This book collects a nice helping of Princess Pups coloring pages (without the URL, mind you) printed one-sided in a handy book so there’s less chance for colors to bleed through to your next coloring adventure! It’s also got some rad activities made just for this book, like mazes, spot the differences, and some drawing prompts! Not only that, but we also get Space Pups activities and coloring pages like the one sampled below:

A sneak peek of a drawing prompt with the Space Pups: draw a sweet rocket for them!
The same sneak peek of the Space Pups rocket drawing prompt tested out by my kiddo Harv

Somehow July slipped away from me, in part because I’ve been working on some other illustration projects on the side. The next planned coloring pages posted to the site will show up in the wee days of August. August? What happened, why is it almost August?

For a timelapse treat, here’s a 30 second timelapse of the creation of the cover art! Marvel at the doodles of ideas before I choose one to blow up and actually draw completely! See where I leave plain text notes about where the title text goes! After you’ve done that, go ahead and pick up a copy of Princess Pups Coloring Plaza for you or for a coloring friend.

Ocean Coloring Ahoy, and Coloring Book Number Two is Almost Ready!

It’s June! It showed up so fast, I didn’t have a chance to do coloring pages for May?! Where did the time go?

However, I’ve been working on the next printed coloring book for Princess Pups, which took a chunk of May from me! Here’s a work in progress version of the cover (which clearly shows I don’t have a title for this coloring book yet). Just like the first coloring book (which you can buy over here), the second will include extra goodies not on the website, like Spot the Differences, mazes and more! I’ll announce once it’s all finished up and available to buy. Hopefully I’ll have thought of a title for it by then?…

For June, the theme I went with was the ocean! All the pups are enjoying the ocean in multiple ways, start off with Pug Pup, Corgi Pup, and Fluff Pup sailing in a wee boat! It looks like an ocean critter is waving at them?

Corgi Pup realizes a cheeky octopus is waving at them!

Meanwhile, Teacup Pup and Scruffy Pup have found a lovely area of the ocean to go snorkeling! Scruffy Pup has managed to find yet another hermit crab pal as Teacup Pup gets a friendly smile from a large fish! I looked much too long at snorkeling images while drawing this, and then kinda winged it as far as how they looked…cuz they’re on some puppies after all 😛

There’s so much swimming around near Teacup Pup and Scruffy Pup!

The scuba image was so active, it was the obvious choice for this month’s time lapse! If you watch carefully, you can see all the times I futzed with those snorkeling masks. Remember you can nab these coloring pages and many others (including other summer themed ones!) in the coloring pages section of the site!