Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken coloring pages: 15 printable designs from the 2023 DreamWorks Animation film, covering Ruby in both her human and giant bioluminescent kraken forms, her mother Agatha, her friend Chelsea, and the Gillman family. Each page can be downloaded as a PDF to print or colored online in the browser.
What Is Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken?
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is a DreamWorks Animation film released June 30, 2023, rated PG, directed by Kirk DeMicco. Kaitlyn Dever voices Ruby, with Toni Collette as her mother Agatha, Annie Murphy as Chelsea, and Jane Fonda as Grandmamah, the Warrior Queen of the Krakens. The story follows sixteen-year-old Ruby, who discovers that entering the ocean triggers her transformation into a giant bioluminescent kraken, and that her entire family is krakens, legendary sea protectors who have guarded the ocean for centuries.
What’s Inside This Collection
Ruby in Human Form
Ruby’s human design centers on a warm, saturated purple-lavender hoodie with cool sage-green accents, curly dark brown hair, round glasses, and warm brown skin. Several tiles cover her standard school-day portrait.
Ruby in Kraken Form
Ruby’s giant kraken transformation is the collection’s most visually dramatic subject, with a deep ocean blue-teal body, trailing tentacles, and a vivid purple-white bioluminescent glow pattern that brightens toward the center of each marking.
Agatha Gillman and the Family
Ruby’s mother, Agatha, appears with warm brown skin and dark curly hair worn up, her warm tones complementing Ruby’s cooler purple palette in duo pages. A family ensemble page brings multiple Gillmans together in their human forms.
Chelsea and Arthur
Chelsea, a mermaid introduced as Ruby’s close friend, has a deliberately warm design, blonde hair, and a coral-pink and gold tail, which visually contrasts with Ruby’s cool palette. Arthur, Ruby’s human school crush, has an intentionally ordinary design that grounds the film’s human social world.
What These Pages Do
The American Academy of Pediatrics identifies fine motor skill development as a core benefit of structured coloring for children ages 2 through 7, and the contrast between Ruby’s detailed kraken form and simpler human portraits suits a range of skill levels.
A 2005 study in the Art Therapy Journal documented measurable reductions in anxiety following structured coloring sessions. Matching each character’s specific temperature, cool for Ruby, warm for Chelsea, gives colorists a clear, focused visual problem to solve.
How to Color Ruby Gillman Pages Well
- Ruby’s hoodie: a fully saturated, medium-warm purple, not so dark it reads violet or so light it reads lavender, with cool sage-to-mint green accents for contrast.
- Ruby’s kraken form: a deep, saturated ocean blue-teal base with the bioluminescent pattern in vivid purple-white, lighter and more saturated at the center of each marking and fading toward the edges.
- Chelsea’s mermaid design: the warmest, most saturated coral palette in the collection, coral-pink to peach-gold tail, and fully saturated warm golden-blonde hair.
- Temperature contrast on duo pages: keep Ruby’s purple genuinely cool and Chelsea’s coral genuinely warm, since that contrast is central to how the film visually distinguishes the two characters.
- Ocean backgrounds: near-black at the edges, graduating to lighter navy and teal toward the center, where Ruby’s bioluminescence casts light, keeping the glow as the lightest element on the page.
5 Creative Craft Ideas With Ruby Gillman Coloring Pages
1. Ocean Poster
Color a full-figure kraken transformation page in the film’s vivid ocean palette, deep blues and teals for the environment, and vivid purple-white for the bioluminescent glow, then frame the finished page as wall art.
2. Character Sticker Set
Print the individual portrait tiles for Ruby, Chelsea, and Agatha on sticker paper, color each in its canonical palette, then cut out the silhouettes for phone cases, notebooks, or water bottles.
3. Kraken Suncatcher
Color a Ruby kraken-form page in vivid ocean blues and purple bioluminescent tones, cover with a clear vinyl adhesive sheet, and hang it in a window so light passing through creates a glowing effect that suits the character’s design.
4. Ruby Puppet
Color the kraken transformation page’s upper body in deep teal with purple markings, attach it to a cardboard tube, and add strips of blue and purple paper shaped into tentacles around the base.
5. Character Mask
Color Ruby’s human-form portrait in her canonical palette, cut out the face shape with eye holes, punch holes on either side, and thread elastic for a wearable costume mask.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken about?
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is a 2023 DreamWorks film about a sixteen-year-old girl who discovers her family are krakens, legendary sea protectors, after breaking her mother’s rule and entering the ocean for the first time.
Who directed Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken?
The film was directed by Kirk DeMicco and produced by DreamWorks Animation, released June 30, 2023, with a PG rating.
Who voices Ruby Gillman?
Ruby is voiced by Kaitlyn Dever, with Toni Collette as her mother Agatha, Annie Murphy as Chelsea, and Jane Fonda as Grandmamah, the Warrior Queen of the Krakens.
Which characters are included in this collection?
The collection features 15 designs of Ruby in both human and kraken form, her mother Agatha, her friend Chelsea, her crush Arthur, and the Gillman family together.
What colors are used for Ruby’s kraken form?
A deep ocean blue-teal base color with a vivid bioluminescent purple-white pattern overlay, brightest at the center of each marking and darker toward the edges.
What colors are used for Chelsea’s mermaid design?
A coral-pink to peach-gold tail with fully saturated warm golden-blonde hair, the warmest palette in the collection, deliberately contrasting with Ruby’s cool purple.
Is Ruby’s family the only kraken family in the film?
The Gillmans, including Ruby, Agatha, and Grandmamah, represent a long line of krakens who have protected the ocean for centuries, a heritage Ruby only learns about after her first transformation.
Are Ruby Gillman coloring pages free to print?
Yes. All pages are free to download as a PDF and print, or to color online in the browser. No account, email, or payment is required.
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