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21 Free Animal Coloring Pages for Adults

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These beautiful, detailed animals coloring pages for adults are the perfect way to de-stress and relax. Each page features detailed, zen-style illustrations of animals to color with a combination of doodle borders, mandalas, and complex backgrounds. There’s something for everyone in this set of 21 free animal coloring pages!

Most of these animals are tropical or warm-climate animals. If you’re looking for more animal coloring pages for adults, be sure to check out these owl coloring pages, zen bird coloring pages, and winter animal coloring pages for adults.

A preview of 10 printable zen-style animal coloring pages for adults. Pages include a lion head, parrot, chameleon, farro face, tropical fish, toucan, panda, lion, hippo, and a tiger.

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How to use printable coloring sheets

Printing your own coloring pages is easy and less expensive than buying coloring books. You can print and color your favorite designs time and again without buying a whole new book. It also removes the fear of making a “mistake” or picking a color you regret later. Just print a new copy and start over!

For a more enjoyable, relaxing coloring experience, print your coloring pages on 32lb bright white paper, not whatever cheap copy paper is in the printer at work. The 32 lb paper is thick, bright, and smooth for rich colors. Your marker or pencil will glide across the page when you use this paper!

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HP Paper Printer | 8.5 x 11 Paper | Premium 32 lb | 1 Ream - 500 Sheets |...
HP Paper Printer | 8.5 x 11 Paper | Premium 32 lb | 1 Ream - 500 Sheets |...
  • Made in USA: HP Papers is sourced from renewable forest resources and has achieved production with 0% deforestation in North America.
  • Heavyweight premium printing: HP Premium32 is a heavyweight (32 pounds), brighter (100 bright) and whiter (163 whiteness) paper with a super-smooth...
  • Certified sustainable: HP Premium32 presentation paper is Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified and contributes toward satisfying credit MR1...
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The markers, pens, or pencils you use to color can have a big impact on your coloring experience. Let’s take a quick look at three popular options for adult coloring pages:

  • Gel pens
  • Markers
  • Colored pencils

There are tons very inexpensive gel pen sets available. They’re so tempting to pick up, but usually a huge disappointment once you actually try to use them. That’s why I wrote an entire post on the best gel pens for coloring, including budget options that actually color. The TL;DR version is that these are my two top picks:

Best Gel Pens
SAKURA Gelly Roll Gel Pens - Ink Pen for Journaling, Art, or Drawing -...
Best Budget Pick
Gel Pens, 36 Colors Gel Pens Set for Adult Coloring Books, Colored Gel Pen...
SAKURA Gelly Roll Gel Pens - Ink Pen for Journaling, Art, or Drawing -...
Gel Pens, 36 Colors Gel Pens Set for Adult Coloring Books, Colored Gel Pen...
Best Gel Pens
SAKURA Gelly Roll Gel Pens - Ink Pen for Journaling, Art, or Drawing -...
SAKURA Gelly Roll Gel Pens - Ink Pen for Journaling, Art, or Drawing -...
Best Budget Pick
Gel Pens, 36 Colors Gel Pens Set for Adult Coloring Books, Colored Gel Pen...
Gel Pens, 36 Colors Gel Pens Set for Adult Coloring Books, Colored Gel Pen...

For coloring markers on a budget, try Crayola Supertips. They’re fun for both adults and children. They can color fine detail or make broad strokes, available in a variety of colors, and you can even use them for hand lettering practice! As a head’s up – though they do have a fine tip for a marker, they may have difficulty with the detail in many of these designs. I’d personally color these animal pages with pencils or pens for control and accuracy.

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Crayola 585050 Washable Super Tips Markers, Assorted, 50/Set
Crayola 585050 Washable Super Tips Markers, Assorted, 50/Set
  • Sold as 50/ST.
  • Markers have tips that are smooth, not scratchy.
  • Fine line markers with a versatile tip that draws thick or thin lines.
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When it comes to colored pencils, nothing can top a set of Prismacolors. Prismacolor colored pencils are soft and creamy. They color easily and are great for blending. 

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Prismacolor 3596T Premier Colored Pencils, Soft Core, 12 Count
Prismacolor 3596T Premier Colored Pencils, Soft Core, 12 Count
  • Soft, thick cores are perfect for shading and shadows
  • Ultra-smooth, even color laydown
  • Lightfast, richly saturated pigments
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Printable animal coloring pages for grown ups

Like all free printable coloring pages on The Artisan Life, these are licensed for personal and single classroom use. You may print and use them in your own personal classroom and with activities you are personally organizing, with your therapy clients, etc.

You are not licensed to redistribute the files or printouts to others for their personal use with their family members/students/clients. Please send friends and coworkers to this page so they can download their own copies.

Because people are frequently looking for a specific animal to color, a free download link for each individual page is located below the corresponding preview image. The link should open in a new tab and start downloading automatically. You may need to authorize downloads from Dropbox if a box appears asking for permission. Don’t worry – the purple watermark is not on your high resolution PDF coloring sheet!

If you love coloring and animals, you can save valuable time by snagging the whole printable coloring book with 21 pages for the very low price of $1.79. (Keep scrolling a tiny bit more for the individual freebie download links)

Alright, let’s get you to the free download links! As a reminder, each download link is below the relevant image. Make sure to allow downloads from Dropbox if a dialogue box appears asking for permission. Any blurriness or off-colors are just the result of image compression to help this page load quickly. Your PDFs are high resolution without the purple watermark.

An antelope head coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color and a mandala in the background

Antelope coloring page

A complex chameleon coloring page for adults with difficult patterns to color and a doodle frame of swirls and dots

Chameleon coloring page

A forward-facing elephant head coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color and a doodle border

Elephant head coloring page

A complex coloring page for adults with doodle filled elephant mother and baby over a complex background to color.

Elephant mom and baby coloring page

There tropical fish coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color. The fish are on top of abstract doodle waves to color.

Tropical fish coloring page

A flamingo coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color and a doodle border. A monstera leaf is also in each corner.

Flamingo coloring page

A walking giraffe coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color and a doodle border. There are also two large banana leaves to color.

Giraffe coloring page

A hippo coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color and a doodle border. There is a large flower in each corner of the page.

Hippo coloring page

A lion face looking forward coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color and a doodle border

Lion face coloring page

A lion head looking left coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color and a doodle border

Lion head coloring page

A lion coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color. A mandala to color is behind the lion.

Lion coloring page

A lizard coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color. The lizard is over an abstract mandala to color.

Lizard coloring page

A walking panda coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color. The panda is in front of abstract swirled wave designs to color.

Panda coloring page

A parrot coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color. The parrot is on a branch and there are three butterflies in the air around the sitting bird.

Parrot coloring page

A parrot head coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color. The parrot is over a complex floral doodle pattern to color.

Parrot face coloring page

A puma coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color and a doodle border. Two tropical leaves are between the puma and the doodle frame.

Puma coloring page

A rhino coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color. The rhino is on top of a complex abstract doodle design to color.

Rhinoceros coloring page

A jumping tiger coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color. The lion is in front of abstract swirled wave patterns to color.

Tiger coloring page

A tiger head with teeth bared coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color and a doodle border

Tiger head coloring page

A toucan coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color. The toucan is in front of swirling wave patterns to color.

Toucan coloring page

A zebra coloring page for adults with complex patterns to color and a doodle border

Zebra coloring page

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