Comic Panel 1: Inside the Princess Pups castle, Fluff Pup and TeaCup Pup are wearing safety goggles and lab coats. Fluff Pup is in the middle of carefully adding one liquid to another in science lab beakers. TeaCup Pup is using her magic wand to keep a Science-Ish book floating up where Fluff Pup can read it Comic Panel 2: Closer image of Fluff Pup and TeaCup Pup; they’ve moved their science stuff onto a countertop.The glass beaker of liquid has some purple colored swirls coming out of it and floating above it. It's bubbling a lot! Fluff Pup is concentrating as she writes notes on a clipboard. TeaCup Pup sits on the other side with a pencil and open book, watching the liquid closely. Comic Panel 3: The swirl cloud disappears and the large bubbles stop, as the liquid settles itself into a lime green color. Fluff Pup and TeaCup Pup celebrate and have a word balloon showing a strong checkmark and happy faces to showcase that their science was a success! Right behind TeaCup Pup, Scruffy Pup is peeping her head up on the table with her tongue flopping out. She looks at the liquid with a soda can and a question-mark image above her head.

Comic Panel 4: Scruffy Pup has swooped up between Fluff Pup and TeaCup Pup to quickly grab the science liquid and starts to drink it! She has a word balloon with a soda can and heart above her head as she’s convinced this is soda! Fluff Pup cringes and looks startled as TeaCup Pup furiously waves her arms back and forth with an exclamatory word balloon with a crossed out image of a soda can, trying to warn her friend it’s NOT soda!

Comic Panel 5: A large, blocky BOOF! Sound effect takes up much of the space as the same purple swirls from earlier in the comic descend around Scruffy Pup. She now has a frog head, but still has her fluffy-floppy dog ears. Her tongue sticks out of her frog mouth with a bit of the green liquid on it and she has a puzzled look on her now-frog face.

Science (Not Soda): Part One

The pups get into Science Stuff, but probably should have told Scruffy Pup what they were doing before she jumped to her own conclusions!...

 

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!

Work Out Your Arms (by coloring)!

The last few Princess Pups comics have featured the Pups doing exercise related things! Or at least, pretending to have exercised?… I thought it would be fun to revisit a comic from the past where all the pups were working out in pseudo-80s clothes, but as coloring pages for this month! The first coloring page has Corgi Pup and Scruffy Pup using the dumbbells for their arms! (Er…legs? Front legs?) Except maybe Scruffy Pup’s using donut-bells?! Also, please make a note of Corgi Pup’s super cute, probably not functional, belt in her outfit.

A Princess Pups coloring page by Lindsay Hornsby. Corgi Pup, a corgi puppy wearing a sweat band, leotard, and a fun belt, uses small dumbbells to do bicep curls. She looks over with a confused face at her friend Scruffy Pup, a scruffy dog with floppy scruffy ears wearing a sweat band, tank top and workout bottoms. Scruffy Pup also does bicep curls but her dumbbells are made up of long donuts with circular donuts at each end. Scruffy Pup is chomping bites out of the donut-dumbbells with each curl and looks very happy.
The best part is Scruffy Pup probably had more donuts layered into her donut-bells to start.

This month’s second coloring page has TeaCup Pup and Fluff Pup doing energetic cardio, much like they did in the past comic! I’m still not sure how I feel about TeaCup Pup on her back legs like this, but I think I managed to draw her cuter this time around than in the past. In the back of the gym, however, Pug Pup seems content to workout her snack muscles on an entire pizza. (I’m sure she squeezed in some solid cardio before then?)

A Princess Pups coloring page by Lindsay Hornsby. TeaCup Pup, a small teacup chihuahua, dressed in a sweatband, tank top, and workout shorts, stands on her back legs circling her arms and doing cardio moves. Fluff Pup, a larger puppy with long fluffy ears and tail, does cardio with her. Fluff Pup has her long ears pulled back in a Scrunchie and wears a tank top and workout bottoms with sweatbands on her legs. Behind them in the room is other exercise equipment like a speed and punching bag. In the background, Pug Pup, a pug puppy also in workout clothes, happily chews on an entire pizza instead of working out.
Fluff Pup with a Scrunchie is a look I could do all the time.

For this month’s time lapse, you can see TeaCup Pup, Fluff Pup and Pug Pup all living in different colored layers so I could keep up with them in the gym. Maybe you can even spot the large set of dumbbells that I noped out of including in the final illustration because they caused a weird tangent? As always, these new coloring pages and many more await you in the Coloring Pages section so you can work out your coloring arm!