Knight Holding Shield coloring page
A buff knight in front of a good castle gate with a shield on his arm. Significant outlines, expansive areas, and decorative armour render this colour page perfect to both children and adults.
The Knight Holding shield - clean castle gate scene coloring page depicts a heroic medieval character; a person who is proud to be in front of an easy but spectacular entrance into a castle. The powerful stance of the knight holding a huge shield makes a harsh concentration which only focuses at the first sight. His armour is very well defined with plates, straps and engravings and gives ample space to deep shadows and imaginative metallic lighting. The smooth, unsymmetrical castle gate, as seen behind him offers huge, simple to paint pieces, which leave the composition in balance and allow novice artists room to work with stone textures or low-key lighting. The combination of detail and simplicity in such a mix is what makes the page ideal in activity books, educational projects, fantasy topics or creative relaxation. Be it printed on children paper or as material in less discriminating hands, the air of this picture is a bold and inspirational, the lines are clear, and the lines of the outlay are sharp and inviting to imagination.
🎨 How to Color
Start the knight with the light grey or metallic silver in colouring in his armour and shadows the joints, edges and engravings to give the effect of a metal appearance in its shadows. Apply shades with a white pencil in order to make the armour shiny. The shield may have bold colours these may include red, blue, gold or green and make the shield stand out clearly with the background of the castle. When dealing with the castle gate, you can equally use light stone; pale grey, beige, or sand with a few darker lines between stones in between to create lusciousness. Maintain the simplicity of the gate, in order that the center attention be upon the knight. The natural environment can be soft shades of brown or green and the sky can be sumptuous gradient of blue or soft pastels. Coloured pencils are best used on smaller details of armour, whereas markers are the best to use as far as filling large areas cleanly is concerned. Build up the colours of the layers, soften gradually, accentuate the power and force of the knight with contrast.
