Peeking through the bandages
Wide-Eyed Kawaii Mummy Coloring Page
All you can see between this little mummy’s wraps are its face and the tips of its toes. Those wide eyes almost fill the gap. Start with the broad strip across the forehead: there’s room to try out a fold before moving on to the tiny ones around the hands.
- Free printable
- Hand-colored example
- Polychromos
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT
Your coloring page, ready to print
The complete drawing, centered with a margin. Choose your paper size and print at actual size, without cropping.
Try your colors before you start
Try two ochre strips. Leave one pale through the middle and shade the other along one edge. Record the combination that looks most like cloth on your swatch chart.
Color practice sheet
Practice light and firm pressure, layers and two-pencil blends.
Download practice sheetAlso available as PNG
Blank color chart
Keep 36 swatches and write down each pencil name and number.
Download blank color chartAlso available as PNGThese are separate A4 worksheets in English. Use them with any pencils and print them on the paper you plan to color on.
Hand-colored by patro_espigares
Golden wraps and blue-green eyes
In this version by @patro_espigares the wraps are warm, with violet skin showing between them. Open the picture for a closer look at where the strips cross.
Three details to look for
- The forehead
The widest wrap stays pale between two toasted edges.
- The eyes
A yellow-green crescent peeks out below the deep blue, well away from the white catchlights.
- The toes
Violet turns up again on the toes. That small echo ties the face and body together.
Pencils used for the colored example
Faber-Castell Polychromos
- 183Light Yellow Ochre
- 205Cadmium Yellow Lemon
- 160Manganese Violet
- 152Middle Phthalo Blue
- 175Dark Sepia
- 180Raw Umber
- 280Burnt Umber
- 102Cream
- 101White
- 157Dark Indigo
Another idea from Creative palettes
What would weathered linen look like?
For a different take, try the earth tones from this Atlas palette on the linen and save Malachite Green for the iris. The example above uses patro_espigares’s own ten Polychromos pencils.
Mummy: bandages and amulets
Caran d’Ache Luminance
- Butternut542 · Luminance
- Raw sienna036 · Luminance
- Brown olive 50%736 · Luminance
- French grey 70%808 · Luminance
- Malachite Green180 · Luminance
Starting with light layers
How to give the wraps some depth
Save the light
Lay cream over the forehead wrap, keeping the middle pale.
Find the lower strip
Where the arms cross, shade the lower bandage along the edge of the one above it.
Color the iris
Add a crescent of color at the bottom and work around the white catchlight.
Four finishing touches
The knot
Use a sharp point to separate the two loose ends beneath the cheek.
The cloth
A few short strokes following the curve of a wrap suggest threads.
The skin
Try violet with very light pressure on one toe before moving up to the face.
The ground
Keep the shadow darkest at the feet and fade it toward the pebbles.
How do I keep the bandages from looking flat?
Choose two overlaps and build the contrast there first. Outlining every strip equally makes it harder to see which one is in front.
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Print your mummy
Choose the PDF that matches your paper and print in portrait at actual size. Check that the loose ends and feet fit on the page.
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