Cool Coloring Sheets Made on the Sprout · Craftwhack

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I have coloring sheets for you lot! I've been wanting to brand coloring sheets forever, and I didn't know how, actually, apart from just cartoon them, but I wanted to be able to beginning from a point that wasn't a bare piece of paper. While I was messing around with the HP Sprout, I discovered that you lot could trace around any image right on the mat, and then delete the epitome to go out your outline.

Again, this opened upward an overwhelming set of possibilities in my head- you could trace around images of your kids' faces, the produce you scanned to brand weird faces like in my terminal Sprout project, scanned magazine photos, objects from around your house, and… anything yous discover on the internet!

I looked up fauna pics and plant some overnice, big, articulate images to apply for my mixed-upwardly coloring pages. I couldn't go just plain creature outlines for this, because I have a tendency to take things into the surreal/slightly creepy zone.

When I found an creature I liked, I only brought up the image onto the computer, and then tapped the screen capture image on the mat.

Voila! Information technology shows up on the mat and you can use 2 fingers to pinch it larger or smaller, and motion it to where you want it. You can zoom in on it or zoom out if you want to add some of your own cartoon to the background. I know information technology looks similar I'm trying to jam my fingers in the poor deer's oral cavity in the motion picture below, but I was just making him a piddling bigger.

Now start tracing. Don't worry virtually making a mistake- y'all tin can hit the back pointer to undo your last action, or apply the eraser in the sidebar where the pens are. With each of my animals, I tried to trace adequately quickly to get a shine line.

You switch to drawing mode on the left side of the mat, where you can choose your pen type, line thickness, and color. At that place'due south also an eraser there for mistakes.

When you're happy with your drawing, switch away from drawing fashion and move your groundwork a little away from your drawing, then press the delete trashcan on the right side of the mat. BOOM! Background is gone, and your drawing is at that place.

At this point, you can switch back to drawing mode and depict more, or redo parts you lot don't like. The eraser does non work at present on your lines, but a workaround is to switch the ink color to white and draw over any areas y'all want to re-depict.

(The gorgeous colorful lines you lot see in some photos are a outcome of trying to photograph all those light waves. Sometimes the pics turned out normal and sometimes liney.)

When y'all want to salve your cartoon, switch back away from drawing mode, press the upper correct lines and "relieve equally". I saved mine as pdf's.

How'south that for like shooting fish in a barrel and way, mode cool?

Here they are for you lot to download and accept a coloring party tonight with your kids or husband or drinking buddies at the bar. (Remember to bring extra markers to the bar. This is an excellent way to choice up men if you are single. I'm not sure what caliber of man, and then don't come lament to me if only creepy weirdos arroyo you.)

Click on each image to download the pdf.