Free Descendants Coloring Pages: 30 printable PDF designs spanning all four films in the franchise, from the original four Villain Kids to a large, recently expanded set from Descendants: The Rise of Red. Each design can be saved as a full-resolution PDF or brought up straight away inside the site’s own coloring tool.
Descendants is a Disney Channel musical franchise set in a world where the children of famous Disney villains and heroes live side by side. The premise follows what might happen if a villain’s child chose a different path than their parent. The original Descendants (2015) introduced Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos, the children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar, and Cruella De Vil, as they leave the Isle of the Lost to attend Auradon Prep, the school for heroes’ children. Descendants 2 (2017) brought Uma, daughter of Ursula, into the story, and Descendants 3 (2019) closed out that generation’s arc. Descendants: The Rise of Red, released on Disney+ on July 12, 2024, is a prequel set years before the first film, introducing Red, the rebellious daughter of the Queen of Hearts, and Chloe, the perfectionist daughter of Cinderella, alongside a teenage version of Cinderella herself.
This collection splits into two eras: 16 pages from the original trilogy (2015 to 2019), and 14 pages from The Rise of Red (2024), including a newly added set of solo Red portraits, a royal Queen of Hearts design, and a group scene.
What’s Inside This Collection
The 30 designs group into two eras of the franchise, with The Rise of Red now making up nearly half the collection following a recent update.
The Original Four and Extended Cast (Descendants 1-3)
Sixteen pages cover the characters who built the franchise over its first three films. Mal is the daughter of Maleficent, with purple hair fading to green ombre tips and outfits in deep purples, blacks, and forest greens. Evie is the daughter of the Evil Queen, known for her design skills, styled in cobalt blue and crimson red with gold accessories. Jay is the son of Jafar, with a palette of burnt orange, warm gold, and rich burgundy. Carlos is the son of Cruella De Vil, his hair split black on one side and white on the other, styled in black and white with occasional red accents. The extended cast includes Uma, daughter of Ursula, in deep teal and aqua with hints of purple, Audrey, daughter of Sleeping Beauty’s Aurora, in soft pink and gold, Jane, daughter of the Fairy Godmother, in pale lavender and light blue, Lonnie, daughter of Mulan, and Doug, son of Dopey and Evie’s love interest. This set also includes group and location scenes, such as an Auradon Coronation page.
Red: Solo Portraits and Street-Style Looks
Four pages now focus on Red herself, a full-length design in her signature heart-patterned top and shorts with a lock-buckle belt reading her name, a close-up portrait in the same hearts-and-red palette, and a stylized hooded portrait done in a graffiti street-art style with her name written across the piece in dripping paint script.
The Royal Family of Hearts
This set covers the Wonderland side of Red’s family tree across four pages: two separate portraits of the Queen of Hearts, one built around deep red, black, and gold playing-card iconography and a newer, more formal design showing her in a jeweled crown and a heart-motif ball gown, plus Bridget, the film’s younger version of the Queen of Hearts played by Ruby Rose Turner, and a design of Cinderella as a teenager, years before she became the character remembered in fairy tales.
Red’s Circle and the Rise of Red Supporting Cast
The remaining six pages round out the new generation: Chloe, the daughter of Cinderella, styled with warm blonde hair and soft pink and gold outfits, a group page showing Red with two stylishly dressed friends sharing cupcakes inside a heart-shaped frame, a young version of Captain Hook, Uma in her Rise of Red role, and the official Descendants: The Rise of Red poster for coloring the full new cast together. One remaining page shows a young woman with a braided crown hairstyle and a quilted leather jacket in the same Rise of Red style as the rest of this set, though without a confirmed character name attached to the design. Several pages in this set carry the working title “Descendants 4,” which the film used before Disney announced Descendants: The Rise of Red as its official title.
What Descendants Coloring Pages Do
Practicing character-specific color palettes. Because each character in this collection owns a specific, consistent color family, this collection works well for practicing how a limited palette can define a character’s identity across many different pages.
Fine motor development. The American Academy of Pediatrics counts fine motor skill development among the real benefits of structured coloring for children ages 2 through 7, and the mix of simpler portrait pages and more detailed costume designs in this collection lets that practice scale with a child’s skill level.
A calmer kind of fan engagement. A 2005 paper in the Art Therapy Journal tracked lower anxiety levels among people who colored within structured outlines, and settling into a favorite character’s costume detail, one color at a time, offers fans that same kind of calming, absorbing focus.
Comparing two eras of one franchise. With both the original trilogy and The Rise of Red now well represented, this collection gives long-time fans a way to color characters across a decade of the franchise, and gives newer fans introduced through the 2024 film a starting point to explore the earlier films’ characters, too.
How to Color Descendants Pages Well
- Mal: Use deep violet for her hair, shifting to forest green at the tips, with dark plum and near-black purple for her outfits.
- Evie: Use a rich cobalt or royal blue for her hair and primary costume elements, with crimson red as the accent and gold for jewelry.
- Jay: Use warm orange deepened toward burnt sienna and terra cotta in the shadows, with gold and burgundy as accents.
- Carlos: Keep the white side of his hair clean and bright with minimal shadowing, and use cold, blue-tinted shadows on the black side.
- Red’s solo portraits: a true, saturated primary red for her hair and heart-print top, with black playing-card and graffiti-style accents kept sharp rather than blended.
- Chloe: Use warm blonde for her hair, with soft pink and gold for her outfit, keeping the tones lighter than Red’s saturated palette.
- Teenage Cinderella, Bridget, and the Queen of Hearts: Use deep true red, ink black, and bright gold across all four of these designs, building the red in layers for a rich tone rather than a flat wash, since Bridget and the Queen of Hearts are the same character at two points in the story, and the newer regal Queen of Hearts portrait rewards a deeper, more jewel-toned red than Red’s own brighter palette.
5 Creative Craft Ideas With Descendants Coloring Pages
1. Character Relationship Map
Color several solo portrait pages, cut them out, and arrange them on cardboard connected by string in each character’s own color, showing friendships and family connections across the cast.
2. Then and Now Display
Color a character who appears in both the original trilogy and The Rise of Red, such as Uma, using the same palette in each version, and display the two pages side by side.
3. Bookmark
Color a tall, narrow character design, cut it into a bookmark shape, and glue it to cardstock to make a sturdy reading bookmark.
4. Movie Marathon Card Set
Color one page from each of the four films, label each with its film title, and use them as a keepsake set during a Descendants movie marathon.
5. Fashion Redesign Sketch
Color a simpler portrait page, then use a blank sheet to sketch how that character might look in a different Descendants color palette.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Descendants coloring pages?
Descendants coloring pages are printable designs featuring characters from the Disney Channel musical franchise, including Mal, Evie, Jay, Carlos, Uma, Red, and Chloe. Each design in this collection can be downloaded as a PDF for printing or colored directly online in the browser, with no software required.
What is the Descendants franchise about?
Descendants follows the children of famous Disney villains and heroes living together at Auradon Prep. The franchise includes Descendants (2015), Descendants 2 (2017), Descendants 3 (2019), and the prequel Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024).
Which characters and films are included in this collection?
30 pages cover the original four, Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos, extended cast members like Uma, Audrey, Jane, Lonnie, and Doug, and an expanded Rise of Red generation, including four solo Red designs, Chloe, teenage Cinderella, Bridget, and two separate Queen of Hearts portraits.
What colors work best for coloring Descendants characters?
Use deep violet and forest green for Mal, cobalt blue and crimson red for Evie, warm orange and burgundy for Jay, and a clean black and white split for Carlos. Red calls for a true saturated red across her solo portraits, and Bridget and the Queen of Hearts both call for deep red, black, and gold, since they are the same character at two points in the story.
Why do some pages say “Descendants 4” instead of “The Rise of Red”?
Descendants: The Rise of Red was widely referred to as “Descendants 4” before Disney announced its official title. Several pages in this collection use that earlier working title, though they show the same characters and film as The Rise of Red.
What is Descendants: The Rise of Red about?
Descendants: The Rise of Red is a 2024 prequel released on Disney+, set years before the original film. It introduces Red, daughter of the Queen of Hearts, and Chloe, daughter of Cinderella, shows a teenage version of Cinderella before she became the character remembered in fairy tales, and reveals Bridget as the young woman who later becomes the Queen of Hearts herself.
Who is the group of girls shown together with cupcakes in the collection?
That page shows Red celebrating with two friends inside a heart-shaped frame, a lighter, more social addition to the Rise of Red set alongside the collection’s other solo character portraits.
Are Descendants coloring pages suitable for young children?
Yes. The Descendants franchise is produced for a family audience on Disney Channel and Disney+, and the coloring pages use clear, moderately detailed outlines suited to a wide age range.
Every design in this set is free to grab with a single click, no account, email, or payment involved, whether it gets printed at full resolution at home or finished on screen through the built-in coloring tool. Once a page is done, the Facebook and Pinterest share buttons at the top of each design make posting it simple.
