Gingerbread Village Winter Dragon coloring page
A nest of gingerbread people, a friendly winter dragon in his scarf and mittens- big shapes, clean lines and candy bits that are a joy to color.
It is a sweet-and-snowy coloring page where a little dragon can be seen walking through a gingerbread village. The dragon is clad in knit scarf (ey! Eyes ready to be patterned) and miniature mittens; puffy horns, cuddly belly scales, and scalloped back panels make him adorable and non threatening. Sugar-candy corn is crunching under foot as it winds back to frosting-trimmed houses with gumdrop roofs and peppermint swirls; fondant birds nest and candy-cane lampposts alongside. There are lollipop trees and jellybean bushes that give the images a fun form and there is puffy smoke that curls out of a chimney and there are large, easy snowflakes that drift in the sky. Clear windows are straightforward rectangles to give a warm look of glow and icicles are in neat and even lines, which is enjoyable to shade. There is a great deal of balance between wide spaces (dragon body, scarf, sky, rooftops) and satisfactory bits (icing zigzags, candy stripes, gumdrop dots). It all goes in a narrow, neat frame so the completed page will look clean in a binder or frame.
The way to color (step-by-step)
Candy Shop Brights: cherry red, lime, teal, lemon yellow, bubblegum pink.
Cozy Cocoa: cream icing, cranberries, evergreen and gingerbread browns.
Frosty Pastels: mint, lavender, peach, sky blue and buttery yellow.
First, base coats: keep the strokes light and uniform on the dragon (belly and inner wings 1-2 shades lighter), houses and sky.
Gingerbread glow: Put a tan background on the walls of houses, and on the cookie path. Brown with cinnamon or light brown on edges, under roof lines, and around candy to get the cookie look as if it has been baked.
Icing & snow: Leave icing light in color - not too white. Put some shred of cool blue or lilac in the shadows (under eaves, beneath swirls) to make it fluffy and cold. It is important to leave snow breadths the brightest.
Dragon depth: Diffuse under chin, across scarf folds, within the wing crevices and behind the curl of the tail a little darker tone. On snout, horn tips and a few edges of the scales leave tiny white highlights.
Scarf & mittens: Or striped or checked in alternate two or three colours. Put on a thinner lighter streak on the curve giving a suggestive woolly glow.
Candy details:
Peppermint & canes: color in the white areas, then add evenly spaced red (or pink) stripes which are a bit darker on the edges to look roundish.
Gumdrops & jellybeans: predominant color medium shade and darken one half and leave small white highlights of the sugar candy appearance.
Lollipops: convolute outward with light centre to darker edge; put a little white edge on to give shine.
Windows glow and lamppost: leave central windows of windows warm (pale yellow or cream). Gently surround the snow and candy around you with the same light color to give a warm night- time halo.
