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.
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!
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?…
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!
I'm Lindsay and I draw the Princess Pups. It's an all-ages comic about puppies having adventures!