Hard coloring pages
Full scenes and fine lines, for anyone who wants an afternoon of it.
These drawings fill the whole sheet. Scenery to the edges, lines close together, and enough small pieces that the drawing is still there tomorrow. From six years up, and plenty of them hold an adult just as well.
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6 years and up Pumpkin bucket full of treats -
6 years and up Sleepy Stitch in pyjamas -
6 years and up Hello Kitty as a winged fairy -
6 years and up Halloween mummy in trailing bandages -
6 years and up Stitch with a pineapple -
6 years and up Princess Hello Kitty in a ball gown -
6 years and up Bluey popping out of a gift box -
6 years and up Stitch playing a video game -
6 years and up Dancing skeleton -
6 years and up Stitch flying his spaceship -
6 years and up Mermaid Hello Kitty -
6 years and up Stitch surfing a tall wave -
6 years and up Minnie Mouse wrapping a Christmas gift -
6 years and up Castle on a hill at midnight -
6 years and up Little witch with a broom -
6 years and up Stitch at Christmas with presents -
6 years and up Day of the Dead sugar skull -
6 years and up Pirate Stitch with a treasure chest -
6 years and up Bulbasaur in a flower meadow -
6 years and up Hello Kitty mandala -
6 years and up Trick-or-treating at the front door -
6 years and up Princess riding a unicorn -
6 years and up Gengar with a huge grin -
6 years and up Mewtwo the legendary Pokemon -
6 years and up Lucario ready to fight -
6 years and up Stitch in a grass skirt -
6 years and up Christmas tree with lights and gifts -
6 years and up Stitch wrapped up in fairy lights -
6 years and up Hello Kitty cycling through the park -
6 years and up Hello Kitty blowing out her candles -
6 years and up Bowl of Halloween candy -
6 years and up Unicorn mermaid under the sea -
6 years and up Sweet-covered gingerbread cottage -
6 years and up Haunted mansion -
6 years and up Unicorn head mandala
What makes a coloring page hard
A hard coloring page is not a harder subject, it is a busier one. The same cat becomes difficult once it sits in a garden with fifty flowers behind it, because every flower is an area of its own and the lines between them leave little room for the pencil.
That is what the measurement counts. Drawings on this page hold sixty separate areas or far more, and the linework is fine enough that a fat crayon no longer fits. A thin colored pencil or a fineliner is the tool here.
Work from the back forward. Sky and background first, subject last, and the drawing keeps its depth instead of flattening out.
Common questions
Are these coloring pages suitable for adults?
Part of them, yes. The adult page is the narrower selection: only the drawings with the finest linework and the most areas, where the pleasure is in the detail rather than the subject.
Which pencils work on fine lines?
Thin colored pencils or fineliners. A felt tip bleeds past a line that runs a millimetre from the next one, and the drawing loses exactly the detail you came for.