Blobfish coloring pages: 24+ free printable PDF designs featuring the blobfish across sad, ugly, happy, funny, angry, cute, and adorable variants, a cartoon style, a Pikachu costume page, and a blobfish with weapons. Every page is free to download as a PDF or color in the browser, with no account required.
The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) is a deep-sea fish found at depths of 600 to 1,200 meters off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand. It became widely known in 2013 when the Ugly Animal Preservation Society voted it the world’s ugliest animal. The set covers the blobfish across a range of cartoon, expressive, and meme-inspired styles.
These pages suit children interested in ocean animals, anyone drawn to the blobfish’s internet fame, and fans of unusual animal coloring subjects.
The coloring challenge unique to this set: the same drooping face across 24 pages requires reading each page’s emotional register before choosing a palette. Moving from sad to Pikachu-costumed is a wider range than it looks.
Quick Answer
Blobfish coloring pages are a free set of 24+ printable PDFs and browser-based coloring sheets featuring the blobfish in expressive cartoon styles, a costume variant, and a full range of mood pages.
Best for: Children aged 4 and up, fans of deep-sea animals, anyone familiar with the blobfish’s internet fame, and parents or educators looking for an unusual ocean animal subject
Formats: printable PDF and online coloring
Popular pages: cute blobfish, sad blobfish, funny blobfish, blobfish in Pikachu costume, and blobfish with weapons
Creative uses: a full expression set, a Pikachu costume display, a deep-sea animal study, and a funny animal wall
What’s Inside Blobfish Coloring Pages
The set is organized around the blobfish’s famous expression range, from its iconic sad appearance through to absurd costume and weapons variants.
Expression Pages
The majority of the set covers the blobfish across distinct emotional states: ugly, sad, happy, funny, angry, cute, adorable, and a general face close-up.
Coloring the blobfish: the blobfish’s distinctive appearance centers on a very soft, formless face, a notably large drooping nose, small beady eyes, and a wide downward-curving mouth. The body is pale and gelatinous in overall form.
The blobfish’s natural coloring is a muted pale pink or off-white, soft and slightly translucent in quality. On expression pages, the base color choices are the same regardless of the labeled emotion: pale pink to light peach for the main body, slightly deeper or warmer pink at the nose, very pale for the underside, and small dark eyes. What changes between the sad, happy, and angry pages is the line quality of the mouth and the positioning of the eyebrows, not the color palette.
Sad and ugly pages: the most familiar blobfish expression is the deeply downward-curved mouth and heavy brow that reads as miserable. Pale pink with slightly grey-lavender shadows under the eyes and along the folds of the face gives the sad pages their characteristic melancholy quality without adding any color that is not naturally present in the fish.
Happy and cute pages: the upward-curved mouth version of the blobfish is the most surprising page in the expression set, because the same soft, pale face that reads as dejected with a downward curve reads as cheerful with an upward one. A slightly warmer, lighter pink (less grey, more peach) on happy and cute pages reinforces the cheerful reading.
Funny and angry pages: the angry blobfish typically features lowered, furrowed brow lines, which on the already-drooping face creates an expression of concentrated frustration. The funny pages often combine exaggerated expression with the blobfish’s inherently absurd proportions. Both work with the standard pale pink palette.
Blobfish in Pikachu Costume
One page shows the blobfish wearing a Pikachu costume.
Coloring the Pikachu costume page: This is the most color-contrast page in the set. The blobfish’s soft, pale pink face sits inside or beneath the vivid yellow of a Pikachu outfit. Pikachu’s characteristic yellow is a bright, warm primary yellow with red cheek circles and brown ear tips. Against the pale pink blobfish face, the yellow creates the strongest color contrast in the set. Keeping the Pikachu costume elements accurate (yellow body, red circles on cheeks, brown ear tips, black ear tips) while keeping the blobfish face its standard pale pink makes this page both accurate to both subjects and visually distinct from every other page in the collection.
Blobfish with Weapons
One page shows the blobfish holding weapons.
Coloring the weapons page: this is the most tonally absurd page in the set, pairing the blobfish’s soft, formless appearance with objects that imply threat. The weapons can be colored in standard metallic grey-silver, with the handles in warm brown or dark wrapped cord. The contrast between the blobfish’s pale, drooping palette and the hard, metallic weapons palette makes this page work as visual comedy.
Cartoon Blobfish
One page presents the blobfish in a simplified cartoon format.
Coloring the cartoon page: the cartoon blobfish uses the same pale pink base with simplified line work. The simplified form makes this the most accessible page in the set for younger children.
Printable PDF and Online Blobfish Coloring Pages
The Pikachu costume page and expression pages work well in both formats.
What These Pages Do
The face everyone knows is not the real face. The drooping nose, the downward frown, the collapsed soft shape that made the blobfish famous as the world’s ugliest animal: all of that happens because of decompression. Blobfish live where water pressure is 60 to 120 times what it is at the surface, and their gelatinous flesh is adapted for that pressure. Brought to the surface, the tissue expands and distorts. Underwater, the blobfish looks like an ordinary fish.
The Ugly Animal Preservation Society chose the blobfish as the world’s ugliest animal in 2013, and the image spread. What spread was a decompression artifact photographed out of its habitat, not a portrait of a living animal in its natural state.
Coloring 24 pages of that face is working with one of the most recognized animal images in internet culture, while knowing the image is a kind of accident. The sad pages, the ugly pages, the pages where the blobfish appears to be frowning at the world: they are illustrations of what happens when something is taken out of the conditions it needs. The Pikachu and weapons pages treat the same image as material for absurdist play.
The AAP notes that learning activities involving deep-sea animals, particularly those that explain the difference between how an animal appears in captivity or at the surface versus in its actual habitat, support early science literacy and build the habit of questioning first appearances.
Art therapy practitioners note that the blobfish’s expression range offers an unusual opportunity for projection-based coloring: children frequently assign emotional narratives to the blobfish’s face, and coloring pages labeled with emotions the animal cannot actually feel can prompt reflection on the difference between how something looks and what it is actually experiencing.
How to Color Blobfish Coloring Pages
Pale pink is the correct base color, not grey. The blobfish reads best in a soft, warm, pale pink or light peach rather than in grey or beige. Grey makes the blobfish look ill rather than gelatinous. Warm pale pink preserves the slightly fleshy, soft quality of the real animal.
Shadows and folds work in slightly deeper pink or soft lavender-grey. On pages with visible facial folds or drooping areas, a slightly deeper warm pink or a very muted cool lavender in the recessed areas gives the face its dimensionality without adding any unnatural color.
The Pikachu costume requires accurate Pikachu yellow: warm, bright, not lemon. Pikachu’s yellow is a warm, saturated primary yellow, not a cool lemon or a pale butter yellow. The contrast between that vivid warm yellow and the soft pale pink of the blobfish face is what makes the costume page work.
Weapons read best in silver-grey with warm brown handles. Standard metallic coloring: a mid-grey with lighter highlight areas for the metal, warm brown for wooden handles, or dark grey for wrapped cord. The contrast between the hard metallic palette and the blobfish’s soft flesh tones is the point of the page.
5 Creative Craft Ideas with Blobfish Coloring Pages
Full Expression Set
Color the sad, happy, angry, funny, and cute blobfish pages as a five-part expression display. Keep the base pink consistent across all five, changing only the shadow depth and highlight warmth to match the labeled mood.
A study of how line changes expression while color stays constant. Takes about twenty-five minutes.
Pikachu Blobfish Display
Color the Pikachu costume page with accurate Pikachu yellow, red cheek circles, and brown ear tips, against the standard pale pink blobfish face.
The highest-contrast page in the set. Takes about fifteen minutes.
Deep-Sea vs Surface Display
Color the cartoon blobfish in a natural pale pink to represent the surface appearance, and research a real deep-sea fish in dark blue or silver for a companion display – Mount with a note explaining the decompression difference.
A science literacy display pairing the famous image with factual context. Takes about twenty minutes.
Weapons and Sad Pair
Color the blobfish with weapons and the sad blobfish side by side as a contrast pair: the same face, wildly different contexts.
The set’s tonal range is in two pages. Takes about fifteen minutes.
Internet Famous Animal Wall
Color the cute blobfish, the funny blobfish, and the Pikachu costume page as a three-part internet-famous animal display. Display with a short caption explaining that the famous face is a decompression artifact.
Three pages from the meme range of the set. Takes about twenty minutes.
FAQ About Blobfish Coloring Pages
Are these blobfish coloring pages free, and can I color them online?
Yes. Every page is free, with no account, email, or payment required. Download the PDF to print at home, or open it in the online coloring tool to color on screen.
What is a blobfish?
The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) is a deep-sea fish found at depths of 600 to 1,200 meters off the coasts of mainland Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. It lives on or near the seafloor and feeds on small crustaceans and organic matter. Blobfish have no swim bladder; instead, their flesh has a density close to or slightly below that of seawater, allowing them to maintain buoyancy passively without expending energy.
Why does the blobfish look the way it does?
The blobfish’s famous drooping face is a decompression artifact, not its natural appearance. At depths of 600 to 1,200 meters, water pressure is 60 to 120 times the pressure at the surface. The blobfish’s gelatinous flesh is adapted for this pressure and maintains a normal fish-like shape in its habitat. When blobfish are brought to the surface during deep-sea trawling, the rapid reduction in pressure causes their tissue to expand and distort, producing the collapsed, drooping appearance that became famous. Underwater, in its natural habitat, the blobfish looks like an ordinary fish.
Why is the blobfish called the world’s ugliest animal?
The Ugly Animal Preservation Society, a UK-based group that advocates for the conservation of less charismatic species, voted the blobfish the world’s ugliest animal in 2013 as part of a campaign to raise awareness for overlooked species. The blobfish’s internet-famous image spread widely following the vote, and the animal became a recognizable internet meme. The title was based on the decompression-distorted surface appearance rather than the animal’s in-habitat appearance.
What does a real blobfish look like underwater?
In its natural deep-sea habitat, the blobfish has a more streamlined, ordinary fish-like appearance. It is typically greyish-white or pale, with small eyes and a standard fish body shape. The dramatic drooping nose, sagging face, and formless body are the result of decompression damage that occurs when the fish is brought to the surface, not its normal appearance in the wild.
Where do blobfish live?
Blobfish live in the deep ocean off the coasts of mainland Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, at depths of 600 to 1,200 meters. This zone of the ocean is characterized by near-freezing temperatures, complete darkness, and pressure 60 to 120 times that of the surface. Blobfish are rarely seen alive because accessing this depth requires specialized deep-sea submersibles or remote equipment.
Are these official blobfish coloring pages from a brand or show?
No. These are nature-themed coloring pages based on the blobfish as a real animal and a widely known internet subject. They are not affiliated with any licensed brand, animated series, or specific artwork.
What age group are these pages best suited for?
Blobfish coloring pages are suitable for a wide age range. The cartoon, cute, and simple expression pages are appropriate for children aged 4 and up. The weapons and Pikachu costume pages, and the more detailed face pages, are better suited to children aged 6 and up who can engage with the animal’s internet fame as context.
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