Goth Coloring Pages

Pastel Goth Chibi Girl Coloring Page | Faiza Louali

Plague doctor, clouds. Coloring book for children. Coloring book for adults. Halloween. | Olya Kushch

Dark colors, mysterious characters, dramatic fashion, skeletons, unusual creatures, and just a little bit of whimsy come together in our Goth Coloring Pages collection. These printable designs explore several different sides of gothic and goth-inspired art, from pastel goth style and cute macabre characters to the unmistakable silhouette of a plague doctor and the eerie beauty of a death’s-head moth.

The collection currently features four very different designs: a Pastel Goth chibi girl, a plague doctor surrounded by dramatic clouds, a cute skeleton, and a death’s-head moth. That variety means you can make one page soft and pastel, another almost completely black and gray, and another rich with jewel tones, metallic-looking accents, or unexpected color combinations.

Goth coloring certainly doesn’t mean reaching for the black pencil and putting every other color away. Black can be part of the palette, but purple, burgundy, silver, deep green, dusty rose, midnight blue, blood red, lavender, and even soft pastel shades can all fit beautifully.

Grab your colored pencils, markers, or crayons and explore the darker side of the coloring box.

🖤 Color the Pastel Goth Chibi Girl

The Pastel Goth chibi girl combines a cute, oversized character style with a darker alternative aesthetic, making her one of the most playful pictures in the collection.

Pastel goth is especially fun for coloring because it pairs dark elements with unexpectedly soft shades. Instead of limiting the page to black, try combining it with lavender, pale pink, mint green, baby blue, or dusty purple.

Her hair could be:

Black with lavender streaks
Silver with pink tips
Purple fading into blue
Pastel pink with black accents
Deep blue with turquoise highlights
Completely rainbow-colored

Then use her clothes and accessories to create contrast.

A black outfit can look dramatically different when paired with pale lavender details. Purple clothing can stand out against silver hair. Pink and black together create a wonderfully playful version of the goth palette.

There is no need for every part of the picture to be dark. In fact, the contrast between sweet pastel colors and darker imagery is part of what makes the design so much fun.

💜 Create a Pastel Goth Color Palette

If you want the whole chibi page to feel coordinated, choose four or five shades before you begin.

Try one of these combinations:

Lavender Night

Black, lavender, silver-gray, pale blue, and white.

Pink & Black

Black, dusty rose, pale pink, burgundy, and gray.

Mint Gothic

Black, mint green, turquoise, silver, and purple.

Pastel Rainbow Goth

Black, pink, lavender, mint, baby blue, and pale yellow.

Moonlight Pastels

Charcoal, violet, pale blue, silver-gray, and dusty pink.

Repeating the same few colors throughout the page can create a polished look even when there are lots of little details.

🕸️ Add Your Own Goth Accessories

The Pastel Goth character can also become the starting point for a larger drawing.

Add a background filled with things that match the aesthetic, such as:

Crescent moons
Stars
Bats
Roses
Candles
Spiderwebs
Tiny skulls
Moths
Black cats
Crystals
Lace-inspired patterns
Gothic windows

You could even design an entire bedroom around the character.

What posters would hang on the walls? What would the bedspread look like? Would there be candles, old books, plants, fairy lights, records, or a black cat curled up nearby?

A coloring page can easily grow into an original piece of artwork.

🩶 Goth Doesn’t Have to Mean All Black

Black is strongly associated with goth fashion, but goth style has never been limited to one single look.

Contemporary goth fashion has developed many variations over the decades, drawing inspiration from music, historical dress, punk, romantic imagery, horror, theatrical fashion, and other alternative styles.

That makes a goth coloring page surprisingly flexible.

Try pairing black with:

Deep red
Burgundy
Royal purple
Emerald green
Midnight blue
Silver
White
Dusty rose
Lavender
Turquoise

Even brown, cream, and muted gold can create a beautiful antique or Victorian-inspired look.

Instead of asking, “What colors are goth?” try asking, “What mood do I want this picture to have?”

🎵 A Little About Goth Culture

Modern goth culture is closely connected with music. The goth subculture developed out of the British post-punk scene around the late 1970s and early 1980s and gradually developed recognizable music, fashion, club, and artistic traditions.

Its visual influences became wonderfully varied. Black clothing may be the most recognizable element, but goth style has also borrowed from punk, historical fashion, Romantic and Victorian imagery, horror movies, Gothic literature, theatrical makeup, and much more.

Later styles continued to mix and remix those influences, giving rise to looks ranging from romantic goth and cybergoth to pastel goth and other contemporary variations.

That history is one reason these four coloring pages can look so different while still feeling at home together.

🏰 Goth and Gothic Aren’t Quite the Same Thing

The words goth and Gothic are often used interchangeably today, but historically they describe different things.

Gothic art and architecture emerged in medieval Europe centuries before modern goth music and fashion existed. Gothic architecture became famous for features such as pointed arches, soaring interiors, elaborate stonework, and enormous stained-glass windows.

Later Gothic literature and Gothic Revival art introduced another layer of associations: old castles, ruins, mystery, darkness, supernatural stories, dramatic landscapes, and romantic melancholy.

Modern goth culture developed much later, but it has drawn inspiration from some of those older Gothic and Romantic traditions.

For coloring, the distinction simply gives you even more ideas.

One page might look modern and alternative, while another could feel like something from a mysterious Victorian novel or a ruined medieval castle.

🐦‍⬛ Color the Mysterious Plague Doctor

The plague doctor page is probably the darkest and most dramatic design in this collection.

Its long beaked mask, dark clothing, and surrounding clouds create an instantly recognizable silhouette that works beautifully with subdued colors.

Try a traditional dark palette of:

Black
Charcoal
Deep brown
Burgundy
Dark gray
Olive green
Cream

Keep the coat almost black and use slightly lighter gray along folds and edges so the details remain visible.

The mask might be cream, brown, gray, or weathered white.

Then use the clouds to establish the mood. Stormy gray creates a gloomy scene, while purple, dark blue, or green can make the illustration feel more fantastical.

🎭 The Story Behind the Plague Doctor Look

The beaked plague doctor has become a familiar character in gothic art, Halloween imagery, games, masks, and alternative fashion, but the historical costume is more specific than popular culture sometimes suggests.

The famous beaked protective costume is associated with European plague outbreaks in the 17th century, rather than being a standard uniform worn throughout the medieval Black Death.

The long beak could be filled with aromatic substances such as herbs or spices because people at the time had very different ideas about how disease spread.

Today, the plague doctor silhouette has moved far beyond its original medical context. The mask has become an instantly recognizable symbol in dark fantasy, costume design, steampunk, gothic art, and Halloween imagery.

That makes it an especially atmospheric subject for coloring.

🌩️ Create a Dramatic Plague Doctor Sky

The clouds around the plague doctor are an opportunity to create atmosphere.

For a stormy look, layer:

Charcoal
Medium gray
Blue-gray
Deep navy
Violet

Leave small sections lighter so the clouds have some depth.

For something supernatural, try sickly green mixed with black and purple.

For a dramatic sunset, use crimson, burgundy, orange, and deep purple behind the dark figure.

The same plague doctor can feel historical, mysterious, apocalyptic, or completely fantastical depending on the sky.

🕯️ Turn the Plague Doctor Into Dark Fantasy

You don’t have to keep the picture historically inspired.

Transform the character into a fantasy traveler wandering through a strange world.

Add:

Lanterns
Ravens
An old castle
Bare trees
Mountains
A crescent moon
Ancient ruins
Mushrooms
Potion bottles
Fog
Stars

Maybe this plague doctor isn’t a doctor at all.

Perhaps the character is an alchemist, mysterious traveler, keeper of an enchanted forest, or collector of magical herbs.

Once the coloring begins, the story belongs to you.

💀 Color the Cute Skeleton

The cute skeleton offers a completely different take on macabre imagery.

Instead of dark and frightening, this character can be playful and almost cartoon-like.

A traditional skeleton might be mostly white or cream with gray shadows. Use pale blue-gray inside deeper areas and leave much of the bone uncolored.

Or take a completely different approach.

Try:

Pink bones
Lavender skeleton
Turquoise skeleton
Rainbow bones
Black skeleton with white highlights
Gold skeleton
Neon green skeleton

A cute skeleton is already ignoring reality a little, so there is no reason the colors have to behave realistically either.

🌈 Make a Rainbow Skeleton

A skeleton naturally divides into lots of separate shapes, which makes it perfect for a rainbow challenge.

Give the skull one color, ribs another, arms another, and legs another.

Or gradually transition through the rainbow from head to toe.

For example:

Skull: Purple
Ribs: Blue
Arms: Green
Pelvis: Yellow
Legs: Orange and red

You could also keep the skeleton cream or white and make the background explode with color.

Add stars, flowers, hearts, bats, or confetti around it for a creepy-cute look.

🌹 Give the Skeleton a Romantic Goth Makeover

Skeleton imagery doesn’t have to be Halloween-only.

Try surrounding the character with roses, vines, candles, lace-inspired patterns, or ornamental frames.

Use deep red roses against black and cream.

Add burgundy, dark green, antique gold, and faded pink for a romantic goth palette.

You could even give the skeleton a flower crown.

The combination of bones and beautiful flowers is a classic example of contrasting imagery—something delicate and alive placed alongside a symbol of mortality.

That contrast can create an especially striking coloring page.

🦋 Color the Death’s-Head Moth

The death’s-head moth may look as though it was invented specifically for gothic art, but its eerie appearance is inspired by a real group of moths.

Death’s-head hawkmoths are known for a skull-like marking on the upper part of the body. That unusual pattern helped give the moth its ominous reputation in European folklore and popular culture.

For a nature-inspired version, try warm combinations of:

Brown
Black
Golden yellow
Cream
Rust
Tan

Keep the wings darker and use yellow or gold in the abdomen.

Then highlight the skull-like marking so it remains easy to see.

🖤 Why the Death’s-Head Moth Looks So Gothic

The death’s-head hawkmoth’s naturally dramatic pattern has made it a favorite in dark art and popular culture.

Its combination of broad dark wings, yellow markings, and the skull-like pattern on its thorax creates an appearance that people have historically associated with mystery and ominous symbolism.

The real moth is even stranger than the artwork suggests: death’s-head hawkmoths can produce a squeaking sound when disturbed.

That combination of unusual appearance and behavior made the moth particularly memorable in folklore.

For coloring purposes, it offers the best of both worlds: a real animal with a design that already looks like gothic fantasy.

🌙 Create a Moonlit Moth Scene

Instead of leaving the moth by itself, draw a nighttime background around it.

Add a large full moon behind the wings.

Color the sky:

Midnight blue
Black
Deep purple
Indigo

Then scatter tiny stars around the page.

Plants, flowers, bare branches, or dark leaves can frame the moth.

For a softer version, use lavender skies, silver stars, and dusty pink flowers.

The moth can look haunting or dreamy depending entirely on the palette.

🥀 Add Gothic Flowers

Flowers and gothic imagery work surprisingly well together.

Try adding:

Dark red roses
Black dahlias
Purple irises
White lilies
Burgundy peonies
Twisting vines

The moth or skeleton can sit at the center while the flowers form an elaborate border.

Older colorists can use several shades inside each flower to create depth.

For a faded antique look, avoid the brightest crayons and concentrate on burgundy, muted purple, dusty rose, olive green, cream, and brown.

🎨 Goth Coloring Palette Ideas

These pages can look completely different depending on the colors you choose.

🖤 Classic Goth

Black, charcoal, white, burgundy, and silver.

💜 Pastel Goth

Black, lavender, pale pink, mint, and baby blue.

🌹 Romantic Goth

Burgundy, black, cream, dusty rose, and dark green.

🌙 Moonlight Goth

Navy, violet, silver, black, and pale blue.

🕯️ Antique Gothic

Brown, cream, rust, faded gold, burgundy, and olive.

🧪 Toxic Gothic

Black, lime green, purple, gray, and turquoise.

🦇 Halloween Goth

Black, orange, purple, green, and white.

💎 Jewel-Tone Goth

Emerald, ruby red, sapphire blue, amethyst purple, and black.

You can keep one palette throughout all four pages or give every image its own mood.

🔴 Use Red as an Accent Color

One particularly effective coloring technique is to create a mostly black, white, and gray picture and then introduce just one bold color.

Red works especially well.

Imagine:

A black-and-gray plague doctor beneath red clouds.

A cream skeleton surrounded by crimson roses.

A black moth with bright red flowers.

A grayscale goth girl with only her hair streaks and lipstick colored burgundy.

Because there is so little color elsewhere, the red immediately becomes the focal point.

Purple, turquoise, or bright green can work the same way.

⚫ Try a Mostly Monochrome Page

Goth artwork is also perfect for experimenting with monochrome coloring.

Choose one basic color and gather several versions of it.

For purple:

Pale lavender
Medium purple
Violet
Plum
Deep purple

For blue:

Pale blue
Slate blue
Cobalt
Navy
Blue-black

For gray:

Silver-gray
Medium gray
Charcoal
Black

Using different values of one color can create plenty of variation without making the page feel busy.

✨ Add Metallic-Looking Details

Gold and silver accents can make dark pictures especially dramatic.

If you have metallic pencils or gel pens, use them on small areas such as jewelry, buttons, mask details, stars, or borders.

No metallic supplies?

Regular colors can imitate the effect.

For gold, combine yellow, ochre, brown, and small white highlights.

For silver, use light gray, charcoal, and white.

Copper can be created with orange, brown, and rust.

Tiny metallic-looking areas can stand out beautifully against large black sections.

🖍️ Colored Pencils Are Great for These Pages

Because goth designs often rely on dark shading and subtle contrast, colored pencils are especially useful.

Instead of pressing down hard immediately, begin with a lighter layer.

Gradually add more pigment where you want shadows.

Black can be surprisingly powerful, so use it slowly. A dark purple, navy, or brown can sometimes create a richer shadow than pure black.

Markers are excellent for strong blocks of color, especially on the Pastel Goth character and cute skeleton.

Crayons can also work well, particularly for younger colorists.

The best art supply is simply whichever one makes you want to keep coloring.

✏️ Mix Black With Color Instead of Replacing It

A common problem with dark coloring pages is that using too much black can hide the line art.

Instead, pair black with nearby colors.

For a black coat, try black plus charcoal.

For black hair, add dark purple or navy highlights.

For black wings, layer brown or deep blue into the feathers or patterns.

For a dark background, combine black with violet, blue, or burgundy.

The picture can still look wonderfully dark without turning into one large black shape.

🧵 Experiment With Texture

Dark artwork becomes even more interesting when different surfaces look different.

Use short strokes for hair.

Smooth layers can make fabric look soft.

Small irregular marks can give a plague doctor coat a weathered appearance.

Crosshatching works well for shadows.

Tiny dots can add texture behind the moth or skeleton.

Patterns can also help separate clothing pieces that are all technically black.

One section might have stripes, another lace-inspired shapes, and another solid shading.

📖 Turn the Characters Into Gothic Stories

Every design in this collection looks as though it belongs to a larger story.

Ask:

Who is the Pastel Goth girl?
Where is the plague doctor traveling?
Why is the skeleton smiling?
Where did the mysterious moth come from?
Are these characters part of the same world?
What happens when they meet?
Is the setting modern, historical, or fantasy?
What lies beyond the clouds?

Then write a short story or draw another picture showing what happens next.

Perhaps the moth leads the plague doctor toward an abandoned castle.

Maybe the cute skeleton owns a strange little flower shop.

The Pastel Goth girl could be searching for the mysterious moth after seeing it outside her bedroom window.

Four unrelated pictures can become one entire gothic universe.

🏚️ Build a Haunted Background

A background can completely change these pages.

Try adding:

Abandoned mansions
Gothic windows
Ruined castles
Overgrown gardens
Foggy cemeteries
Bare trees
Antique libraries
Moonlit forests
Old iron gates
Candlelit rooms

Younger children can add just a moon and a few bats.

Older artists can build elaborate architectural scenes around the original character.

There is no requirement to stay within the printed lines.

🎃 Give the Pages a Halloween Makeover

These designs naturally fit the spooky season.

Add orange pumpkins behind the skeleton.

Place bats around the plague doctor.

Give the Pastel Goth girl a Halloween candy bucket.

Surround the moth with jack-o’-lanterns and a huge October moon.

Then continue the spooky creativity with our Coloring Pages of Halloween, which include witches, ghosts, a bubbling cauldron, black cat, scarecrow, pumpkins, and more.

The two collections work nicely together while still having different personalities: Halloween is festive and seasonal, while these goth pages lean more heavily into alternative and macabre imagery.

👻 Try Something Creepy and Cute

If the smiling skeleton and Pastel Goth character are your favorites, you may especially enjoy the combination of spooky imagery with kawaii style.

Our Creepy Cute Coloring Page for World Goth Day features a tiny ghost wrapped in a dark cloak.

It is more adorable than terrifying, making it a natural companion to this collection.

You can use the same pastel goth palette across both pages and create your own creepy-cute mini coloring book.

🐈 Explore More Adorable Spooky Characters

Our 24 Adorable Coloring Pages collection also includes several designs that blend cute characters with slightly spooky settings, including friendly ghosts and cozy nighttime scenes.

Pairing those pages with the cute skeleton gives you a softer alternative to traditional horror artwork.

Use lavender, pink, black, turquoise, and gray to create a unified kawaii-goth color palette.

🕯️ Try More Aesthetic Coloring Pages

If what you enjoy most is choosing a mood, palette, and visual style rather than following realistic colors, explore our Aesthetic Coloring Pages.

Aesthetic coloring is especially compatible with goth because the colors themselves can become part of the atmosphere.

Try coloring the same design twice.

Make one version dark and romantic.

Make another pastel goth.

The line art stays exactly the same, but the finished pictures may look as though they belong to completely different worlds.

🌎 Coloring for Kids, Teens, and Adults

These Goth Coloring Pages have a wider age range than many simple character collections.

Younger colorists may gravitate toward the cute skeleton or chibi girl, while teens and adults may especially enjoy experimenting with the plague doctor, moth, atmospheric backgrounds, and more controlled color palettes.

The collection is currently included in both the site’s kids and adult coloring categories, so there’s no need to treat goth art as belonging to only one age group.

The level of detail, theme, and individual interest can help determine which page feels like the best fit.

✋ Creative Practice With Coloring Tools

For younger artists, coloring also offers opportunities to practice controlling crayons, pencils, and markers.

Large areas are easier to fill, while smaller accessories, moth patterns, bones, and clothing details offer gradually more challenging spaces.

Older colorists can experiment with blending, shading, color theory, limited palettes, texture, and background drawing.

There is no need to create a flawless finished page.

A crooked stripe, unexpected color, or patch of scribbling may simply become part of the artwork.

🖼️ Create a Mini Goth Art Gallery

Once all four pages are finished, display them together.

Choose one consistent palette so they look like a coordinated collection, or make every picture completely different.

For example:

Pastel Goth Girl: lavender, pink, mint, black.

Plague Doctor: charcoal, burgundy, brown, cream.

Skeleton: black, white, red, silver.

Death’s-Head Moth: brown, gold, navy, purple.

Put the finished pages side by side and notice how many different moods can fit under the goth umbrella.

✂️ Turn the Finished Pages Into Crafts

Finished pictures can also become part of larger projects.

With appropriate supervision, cut out the characters and use them for:

Halloween cards
Scrapbook pages
Bedroom decorations
Bookmarks
Gothic collages
Journal covers
Party decorations
Homemade storybooks

The death’s-head moth could become the center of a botanical collage filled with dark flowers.

The skeleton could appear on a Halloween card.

The Pastel Goth girl could decorate a journal cover surrounded by stars and moons.

The artwork doesn’t need to end when the coloring is finished.

🌙 Create Your Own Darkly Beautiful World

These Goth Coloring Pages show just how varied dark-inspired artwork can be.

One page combines kawaii style with pastel goth fashion. Another brings the unmistakable silhouette of the historical plague doctor into a dramatic cloudy setting. The smiling skeleton turns macabre imagery into something playful, while the death’s-head moth proves that nature itself can create designs that look perfectly gothic.

Color everything black and gray if that is the mood you want.

Or bring in burgundy, violet, forest green, silver, dusty rose, turquoise, pale pink, and glowing gold.

Make the characters spooky, romantic, cute, mysterious, historical, futuristic, or completely fantastical.

Goth creativity doesn’t require one specific palette or one specific style.

Sometimes the shadows are exactly where the most interesting colors are hiding.

Happy coloring!

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