Ninja Leaping With Two Blades Coloring Page

Looking for ninja with blades coloring pages? This Ninja Leaping With Two Blades Coloring Page catches a figure in mid air, one knee driven up and the other leg stretched down toward the bottom of the sheet. A forked blade is held high in a wrapped fist, and two long panels of cloth fall from the sash and trail all the way to the lower border in fine parallel folds. Only the eyes show above the mask. A free printable page for ages 8 and up, and one of the more demanding sheets in the ninja set.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we entered the concept: 'a detailed ninja leaping upward with two short blades drawn and cloth trailing down the page in fine folds' on Colorin AI and generated a print ready coloring page in seconds. The two blades came back on a single forked grip instead of one in each hand, so the free hand closes into a fist.

'Trailing down the page' is the phrase that decided the layout. Asked for a leaping ninja on its own, the generator centers a compact figure and leaves the lower half of the sheet empty. Naming the cloth and saying where it should go stretched the drawing to the full height of the paper, which is why the folds run from the sash to the bottom border.

What's in this ninja with blades coloring page

Close to half of this page is fabric, not figure. The leap is the subject, but the cloth is the work, and it is drawn in narrow ribbons rather than broad shapes.

That suits a colorer who wants a long sitting rather than a quick one. There is no background to fill and no scenery to invent, so the whole session goes into the folds and the wraps.

The raised right hand grips a wrapped handle with a ring guard, and two narrow blades fan out of it, the longer one angled up and to the right. That forearm carries about nine spiral wraps and the left forearm about eight, with the left hand closed in a fist at hip height. The hood leaves one opening for two eyes and a pair of brows. A scarf leaves the back of the head and streams to the right in four ribbon folds. The tunic crosses in a V lapel over a wide sash, tied off with a round knot medallion at the center. From that sash two cloth panels fall to the lower border, each ruled with more than a dozen long fold lines that never quite run parallel. Both shins are wrapped and both feet wear split toe boots with a divided front. A thin rectangle frames the whole leap over empty white paper.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

The cloth is the decision on this page. Two tones worked along the length of the folds, the darker one kept to the inside of each curve, will read as fabric in motion. One flat tone across all of it will flatten the leap into a standing pose.

Keep the arm and leg wraps a single off white and shade only the gaps between the bands. There are more than forty wraps here, and coloring them one by one takes the shape out of the limbs underneath.

Want to color your own? Turn a photo into a coloring page and print a photo from your own karate class the same way.