Tiger Coloring Pages

The stripes are lines, not black bands

Nearly every tiger drawing fills the stripes in solid black. It looks right on a poster and it is hopeless on a colouring page — half the animal is already coloured, and the half that is left is a set of awkward white gaps. On all twenty pages here the markings are drawn as single thin lines with white paper on both sides of every one, so the whole tiger is yours: orange, white, blue, or striped in whatever colours you like.

The same goes for the parts that usually go dark without anyone deciding to. The noses are hollow outlines rather than black triangles, the inside of every ear is blank, no tail ends in a black tip, and the paws have toe lines instead of solid pads.

More than one kind of tiger

There is a white tiger walking through fresh snow under pine branches, a sabertooth on a rocky outcrop with its two long curved teeth showing, and a tiger wading chest-deep through a river — tigers are strong swimmers and genuinely like water, which surprises most people.

Cubs

A cub sitting up patting at a ball of wool, two cubs play-fighting in the grass, and a mother washing her cub while it dozes against her chest. There is also a tiger curled up fast asleep on a bed of leaves, with three little spirals above its head instead of the usual letters.

A mask you can wear

One page is a tiger face mask with a dashed line to cut along, two eye holes and a small hole at each side for string or elastic. Colour it first, then cut it out — it works best printed on thicker paper or card.

Which page to start with

The simple tiger is the easiest page here — big rounded shapes, very thick outlines and only a few hairline markings to work around. The mandala, the patterned tiger and the realistic portrait are the slow ones and work better with fineliners than pencils.

Printing

Print at 100% scale rather than “fit to page”, and match the file to your paper — Letter or A4. The button at the top bundles all twenty into a single download.