Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken Coloring Pages
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken Coloring Pages at ColoringPagesOnly.com brings together 15 free printable pages from DreamWorks Animation’s 2023 underwater coming-of-age film – Ruby in her human form with her signature purple hoodie and glasses, Ruby transforming into her giant bioluminescent kraken form, her mother Agatha Gillman, her school crush Arthur, her apparent mermaid friend Chelsea, and multiple duo and family ensemble compositions. The collection captures both sides of Ruby’s identity: the anxious, sweet teenager trying to fit in at Oceanside High and the enormous, glowing sea creature she discovers herself to be. The full Cartoons collection is available through our Cartoons Coloring Pages hub.
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About Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is a DreamWorks Animation film released on June 30, 2023, rated PG, directed by Kirk DeMicco (The Croods). The film stars Kaitlyn Dever as Ruby, Toni Collette as Agatha Gillman, Annie Murphy as Chelsea, Lana Condor as Margot, and Jane Fonda as Grandmamah – the legendary Warrior Queen of the Krakens.
The story follows Ruby Gillman, a sixteen-year-old girl living with her family in the small Canadian coastal town of Oceanside. Ruby is cheerful, slightly anxious, and desperately wants to fit in – but her mother Agatha has one firm rule: Ruby is never allowed to go in the ocean. When Ruby breaks this rule to impress Arthur, her school crush, she discovers why – contact with seawater triggers her transformation into a giant bioluminescent kraken, and reveals that her entire family is krakens, legendary sea monsters who have been the ocean’s ancient protectors for centuries.
The film’s central relationship is between Ruby and Chelsea, a mermaid who appears at Oceanside High and quickly becomes Ruby’s close friend, seemingly helping her understand her kraken powers. As the story develops, Chelsea’s true identity and motivations are revealed – she is not who she appears to be, and her interest in Ruby’s kraken heritage has darker purposes connected to a legendary trident and the ancient war between krakens and mermaids. The film uses this twist to explore themes of self-acceptance, the gap between a parent’s fear and a child’s potential, and the danger of trusting people who tell you only what you want to hear.
Characters in This Collection
Ruby Gillman (human form) is depicted in her standard school-day appearance across multiple tiles in the collection. Her human design centers on a purple-lavender hoodie with green accents and details – a warm, saturated purple that reads as distinctly her color without being overly dark. She has curly dark brown hair that frames her face loosely, round glasses with simple frames, and warm brown skin. Her overall palette in human form is warm and slightly muted – the purple hoodie is the most vivid color element, while her skin, hair, and jeans are warm, naturalistic tones. The Ruby Gillman Coloring Page, Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken Coloring Page, and the Images Ruby Gillman Coloring Page tiles all cover her human portrait form.
Ruby Gillman (kraken form) is the most visually dramatic subject in the collection – her giant transformation is depicted in the Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken Color Page and the full-film composition tiles. In kraken form, Ruby becomes enormous – multiple stories tall – with a body that glows with bioluminescent purple-blue-teal light, multiple long tentacles that trail from her lower body, and the ability to emit a concentrated bio-optical purple beam from her eyes. The color palette for Kraken Ruby is almost entirely cool – deep ocean blues and teals as the base body color, with vivid purple-white as the bioluminescent glow pattern. The glow is brightest at the center of patterns and fades to the deeper ocean tones at the edges.
Agatha Gillman is Ruby’s mother – a warm, protective woman who has spent years hiding the family’s kraken nature out of fear for her children’s safety. Her human form is depicted with warm brown skin, dark curly hair worn up, and typically practical, warm-colored clothing. She is also a kraken, though her own transformation is less frequent in the film than Ruby’s. The Agatha Gillman Coloring Page and Ruby and Agatha Coloring Sheet tiles cover her individually and alongside Ruby. In duo pages, the warm tones of Agatha’s design complement Ruby’s cooler purple palette.
Chelsea is introduced as a mermaid with a deliberately warm, approachable design – long blonde hair, light pink-coral skin, and a mermaid tail in coral-pink and warm gold tones. Her color palette is intentionally the warmest and most inviting in the film – visually reassuring and friendly – which makes the contrast with her later revelation as an antagonist all the more effective narratively. For coloring, Chelsea’s warm coral-and-gold mermaid aesthetic sits at the opposite end of the temperature spectrum from Ruby’s cool purple kraken form. The Chelsea Coloring Page, Ruby and Chelsea Color Sheets, Pictures Ruby and Chelsea Coloring Page, and Ruby Gillman and Chelsea Coloring Page tiles all capture their apparent friendship.
Arthur is Ruby’s human school crush – a warm-toned teenage boy with light skin, brown hair, and casual school clothing. His design is deliberately ordinary compared to the fantastical kraken and mermaid characters, grounding him as a touchstone for Ruby’s human social world. The Arthur Coloring Page covers his portrait.
The Gillman family ensemble appears in the Familia Gillman Coloring Sheet and Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken Coloring Page for Kids tiles – group compositions showing Ruby with multiple family members in their human forms, the warm, close-knit family unit that anchors Ruby’s emotional world throughout the film.
Coloring Guide
Ruby’s human form works most effectively when the purple hoodie is colored as a fully saturated, medium-warm purple – not so dark it reads as violet, not so light it reads as lavender, but a clear, confident purple in the mid-range. The green accents on the hoodie are a cool sage-to-mint green, creating a warm-cool contrast against the purple that is one of the film’s most consistent character color choices. Her dark curly hair is a very dark warm brown – close to black but with visible brown warmth, especially where light hits the curls. Her skin is a warm medium brown with golden undertones.
Ruby’s kraken form requires a different approach entirely – the transformation calls for a primarily cool, deep palette with vivid luminescent accents. The body base is deep ocean blue-teal – saturated and dark, suggesting the depth of the ocean. The bioluminescent pattern overlaid on this base is vivid purple-white, rendered as lighter and more saturated at the center of each pattern element and transitioning to the darker base at the edges. This gradient quality – bright center to dark edge – is what makes bioluminescent creature designs read as genuinely glowing rather than simply two-tone.
Chelsea’s mermaid design calls for the warmest and most saturated coral palette in the collection. Her tail is coral-pink to peach-gold, with the gold saturation increasing toward the fin edges where the tail catches light. Her hair is a warm golden blonde – fully saturated warm yellow-gold rather than a cool or ashy blonde. Her overall warmth should be noticeably higher than any other character on the same page, which serves the film’s visual storytelling: Chelsea is designed to look welcoming and trustworthy.
The two-character temperature contrast in any Ruby-and-Chelsea page is the most important coloring decision in the collection. Ruby’s cool purple palette against Chelsea’s warm coral palette creates a natural visual tension that, with the knowledge of how Chelsea’s character arc develops, reads as foreshadowing. Maximizing this warm-versus-cool contrast – keeping Ruby’s purple genuinely cool and Chelsea’s coral genuinely warm – gives the duo pages the most visual depth.
Ocean background elements in the transformation and kraken-form pages benefit from deep, layered blues – starting with near-black at the edges and graduating to slightly lighter navy and teal toward the center, where Ruby’s bioluminescence casts light. The bioluminescent glow should be the lightest element on any kraken-form page, surrounded by increasingly dark ocean depths.
7 Creative Ideas for Your Ruby Gillman Pages
Design a Poster
Choose a full-figure Ruby composition – particularly the kraken transformation pages – and color it in the film’s vivid ocean palette: deep blues and teals for the ocean environment, vivid purple-white for the bioluminescent glow pattern. Frame the finished page and display it as wall art.
Make Stickers
Print the individual character portrait tiles – Ruby, Chelsea, Agatha – on sticker paper at approximately 4×6 inches. Color them in each character’s canonical palette, cut out the character silhouettes, and use them as stickers on phone cases, notebooks, or water bottles.
Image source: AliExpress.
Create Character Masks
Select a front-facing portrait page – Ruby’s human form works particularly well. Color the hair, skin, and clothing in Ruby’s canonical palette, cut out the face shape, leaving eye holes, punch holes on either side, and thread elastic to create a wearable mask for costume play.
Decorate a Cup
Color a character page in bright, vivid tones – Chelsea’s warm coral mermaid design works especially well for this. Apply a transparent adhesive layer over the finished coloring, cut out the character, and use double-sided tape to attach it to the outside of a cup or water bottle.
Image source: Etsy.
Make a Suncatcher
Color a Ruby kraken-form page using vivid ocean blues and purple bioluminescent tones, then cover with a clear vinyl adhesive sheet. Cut out the kraken silhouette and hang it in a window using a ribbon or adhesive hook – the translucent vinyl allows light to pass through the colored areas, creating a glowing bioluminescent effect that suits Ruby’s kraken design perfectly.
Build a Ruby Puppet
Print the Ruby kraken transformation page on cardstock and color her upper body in deep teal with purple bioluminescent markings. Cut out Ruby’s upper body and attach it to the top of a bottle or cardboard tube, using strips of blue and purple paper or bubble wrap shaped into tentacles around the base.
Decorate a Notebook Cover
Color one of the Ruby portrait pages in her canonical purple-and-green palette. Attach the finished page to the front cover of a notebook and cover with a clear adhesive sheet to protect from wear. The Gillman family ensemble page works particularly well for larger notebook covers.
FAQs
What is Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken about? Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023) is a DreamWorks Animation film about a 16-year-old girl who discovers her family are krakens – legendary sea monster protectors of the ocean – when she breaks her mother’s rule and enters the ocean, triggering her first transformation into a giant bioluminescent kraken.
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. Other voice cast members include Toni Collette as Agatha, Annie Murphy as Chelsea, and Jane Fonda as Grandmamah, the Warrior Queen of the Krakens.
Is Chelsea a villain in Ruby Gillman? Yes – though Chelsea is introduced as a friendly mermaid who helps Ruby understand her kraken powers, the film reveals she is the antagonist. Her warm, trustworthy visual design is an intentional contrast with this reveal.
What colors are used for Ruby’s kraken form? Ruby’s kraken form is primarily deep ocean blue-teal for the base body color, with vivid bioluminescent purple-white as the glowing pattern overlay. Her bio-optical beam (eye attack) is a concentrated purple-white.
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