Salon Visit

Perhaps Scruffy Pup is mixing up the words "salon" and "saloon"?...

 

Valentine Craft Coloring!

Valentine’s Day is fully of hearts and chocolates but also: crafts! Or, as we say in our house: “craaaafts! I want to do craaaaafts!” This month’s coloring pages has all the Princess Pups participating in pretty popular Valentine themed crafts!

First up we have Scruffy Pup, TeaCup Pup, and Fluff Pup making heart-filled garlands to hang! There’s lots of patterns on the hearts to color in all sorts of ways, but I’m not sure that the string will be able to hang on the wall with TeaCup Pup swinging from it….

A coloring sheet featuring three of the Princess Pups. They're crafting Valentine's Day themed garlands to hang. TeaCup Pup, the smallest puppy, swings on one of the garlands between Scruffy Pup and Fluff Pup as they prepare to hang it. They're all happy pups!
So many hanging hearts!

In this month’s second coloring page, I’ve got Corgi Pup and Pug Pup crafting Valentine’s cards! While Corgi Pup has been focused on her card, it seems that Pug Pup has gone a bit overboard in the size of the card she made. (Don’t worry, it’s made of light-weight card stock paper, so it won’t hurt if it topples onto them!)

A coloring sheet of two of the Princess Pups doing Valentine Card crafts, Corgi Pup and Pug Pup. Corgi Pup has her eyes shifted to the right to look behind her at a giant, looming Valentine heart card that Pug Pup has made (and is very proud of). The floor around them is littered with crafting supplies like a jar of pom-poms, glue, paper and stickers. These also cover the giant heart card!
Pug Pup is so proud of her massive Valentine card!

The pups have had a few Valentine adventures in the past. I’ve even made some swell printable cards based on a comic. You can download these printable Princess Pups Valentines below!

This month’s timelapse video is a glimpse at the garland Valentine craft! It was fun doing different lil’ patterns to go into the hanging hearts, so I hope it adds lots of variety to your coloring! You’ll find this month’s coloring pages plus a ton more (including past Valentine ones!) over here in the Coloring Pages!

Step Right Up for Circus Coloring Pages!

It’s time for this month’s coloring pages so you have something to do to stay out of the cold! Hiding inside to drink hot chocolate and color is so much nicer (to me, anyway). This month, I peeped through some of my sketchbook doodles for a theme that I’d thought of a while back but hadn’t done yet: the circus! You can see the rough sketches below, crowded about with my rough notes of ideas.

A photo of a physical sketchbook page. There's lots of pencil drawings of bears and ideas for circus themed images for Princess Pups. The ideas include Scruffy Pup as a ringmaster with a goat on a ball, Fluff Pup and Corgi Pup as clowns, and TeaCup Pup and Pug Pup doing the trapeze with a goat
Some bear doodles from a previous comic are also living on this page!

I had three ideas that I liked, but I stick with two coloring pages max each month. After getting a bit of advice, I decided to combine the trapeze sketch as the background element of Scruffy Pup as a ringmaster! While I was working on it, I decided pushing the image with a nice big foreground element would make it even more interesting to color…and the best foreground element is usually a goat! This one was a lot of fun to draw, especially with TeaCup Pup being uncertain about how a goat can add to the complexity of doing a trapeze act!

I’d go to a circus with goat performers, hands-down.

Since goats were scattered in the first coloring page, I decided to add another in the second coloring page. Fluff Pup and Corgi Pup are decked out in clown gear with a lil’ assistant clown goat! I’m not sure Corgi Pup enjoys her clown outfit though. Maybe it’s the large shoes? Or maybe she’s bothered that she can’t juggle with a goat on her back and giant shoes on her feet?…

While Corgi Pup isn’t as big on being in clown gear, Fluff pup is super excited to juggle!

For this month’s timelapse, here’s a peek at how many times I had to shuffle around the parts of the main event illustration! Using layering is a super-big help with digital drawing, especially when there’s a lot going on. I eventually made the trapeze act larger because it didn’t look like it would be big enough to color at the original size. Originally, I hadn’t planned on the ball-balancing goat having a costume, but they needed a lil’ more flair. Remember that you can always nab these and other coloring pages over on the Coloring Pages section of the site!

A Delightful Wintery Mix of Coloring Pages!

Dang, we got some snow recently! We got enough wintery weather to go sledding on a hill near our house. Of course, this only happened once we finally trudged through stacks of snow to get to the hill!

This gave me the rad idea of “The Pups should sled in the next coloring page!” That’s why you’ll find a very worried Corgi Pup riding on a long sled behind a super excited Pug Pup in this month’s first coloring page! Any coloring pages where I can fit all the pups into it are lots more fun, so you’ll find a frantic Fluff Pup watching from the top of the hill as TeaCup Pup and Scruffy Pup observe from mid-hill territory! (Scruffy Pup seems to have gotten stuck in the snow sculpture?!)

Pug Pup is up for any and all steep sledding hills…Corgi Pup has second thoughts!

For this month’s second coloring page, I knew that I wanted to draw something involving jingle bells. Since cats tend to play with those more, I decided to plop the Commando Cats into Christmas-themed outfits, complete with a jingle bell hat! This is the first time the Commando Cats have made it onto a coloring page and they were fun to deck out into Christmasy clothes! Even if only one of them seems excited by it…

The best part of drawing cats in Christmas clothes is avoiding angry real-life cat reactions to dressing them in clothes!

This month’s timelapse shows just how many layers and colors I had going for the sledding image as I drew it! I’m going to find some time to color this one myself because I really love how it came out! Don’t forget that you can find these and tons of other coloring pages over here on the site to keep you busy the next time there’s snowy weather!

Enjoy Coloring These Goat and Princess Pup Halloween Costumes!

I love any excuse to dress up the Princess Pups in costumes, especially for Halloween! In this year’s Halloween comic, Pug Pup and Scruffy Pup are visited by Trick-or-Treaters that include a few goats. This inspired me to have the two of them dress as goats in their own fun way for a Halloween themed coloring page! Scruffy Pup is a fan of goats and probably used one of her favorite Goat World hats as part of her costume…

A coloring page by Lindsay Hornsby of Pug Pup and Scruffy Pup dressed in homepage Halloween costumes of goats!
Now that I think about it, maybe one of them should have had a goat candy bucket?….

The other pups weren’t in the Halloween comic this year. So at first, I wasn’t sure what their costumes should be. Then I realized they should dress as each other! Maximum cuteness! Fluff Pup’s rockin’ a TeaCup Pup headband as she happily tosses candy from their pile of candy loot. Corgi Pup and TeaCup Pup are tucked into cute onesie style costumes. Corgi Pup is dressed as Fluff Pup and TeaCup Pup is dressed as Corgi Pup!

A Princess Pups coloring page by Lindsay Hornsby. It's 3 of the Princess Pups dressed as each other for Halloween as they frolic in a pile of candy.
I dream of rolling around in this much candy.

I had some layers going on while working on this drawing so I could adjust Fluff Pup and the candy in the background if needed. You can check it out in the timelapse video below! And be sure to have a super fun and happy Halloween!