Goggles with a Motorcycle Coloring Page

This Goggles with a Motorcycle Coloring Page comes in close. A pair of riding goggles rests on a padded seat, drawn large enough to run most of the width of the sheet, with twin lenses joined by a pinched nose bridge, a thick foam rimmed frame, ribbed strap ends folded back at both sides and a winged star badge stitched to the strap above. Worth knowing before you print: the machine beneath them is drawn in real detail, not as a simple outline. A free printable page for ages 6 and up.

How this coloring page was created

For this page we entered the concept: "One bold pair of riding goggles with a wide strap above, resting on the seat of a small simple motorcycle below" on Colorin AI and generated a print ready coloring page in seconds.

"Resting on the seat" is the phrase that produced the whole composition, and it did more than expected. It gave the goggles a surface to sit on, which is why they look placed rather than floating, but it also pulled the viewpoint right down to seat level. What the prompt did not get was "small simple motorcycle": at that distance the bike came out cropped and detailed, with a sprung shock, a fuel tank seam and a spoked wheel all visible, so this sheet is a step above the rest of its group.

Details of this goggles coloring page

The badge on the strap is the piece worth printing this page for. It is a five pointed star inside a circle, with a swept wing spreading from each side, the kind of emblem that gets embroidered onto real riding gear.

It is small and it is the only symmetrical decoration on the sheet, which makes it the natural place for the one careful color choice. Everything else here is equipment; the badge is the part that belongs to a particular rider.

Counting the drawing: the goggles are built from about eleven closed shapes. Each lens is a rounded rectangle set inside a padded frame drawn as two nested outlines, and the two meet at a pinched bridge in the middle. The frame's foam edge is hatched along its lower run in roughly thirty short strokes. At each side the strap folds through a square buckle and its cut end is ribbed in about six bands. The badge above holds a star, a ring and two wings of three feathers each. Below, the seat is one long padded shape with a piped edge, and behind it the bike shows a tank with a seam line, a frame loop, a coil spring shock of nine turns, a round side cover and a wheel rim with a hatched tire.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Leave both lenses clear or give them the same very pale tint. They are the largest paired areas on the page and the temptation is to fill them with a strong color, but goggles read as goggles because you can see through them. A faint blue or amber, lighter than everything around it, is as far as this should go.

Use the foam hatching as a shading guide rather than coloring over it. Running a darker tone only through the hatched strip and keeping the frame above it light makes the padding look soft and the frame look rigid, which is the one place on this sheet where two materials meet.

The bike behind can take a single muted tone throughout. It is scenery here, and letting it stay quiet is what keeps the goggles as the subject.

Own a pair like these? Turn a photo into a coloring page and print your own goggles down to the badge on the strap.