Three hippos follow a winding channel, with their heads and rounded backs above the water.

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Hippos Following a Shallow Channel

Three hippos follow a winding channel, with their heads and rounded backs above the water. Long grass and rounded rocks line both banks, with broad-canopied trees behind and many water lines between the animals.

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Blue water links three lavender hippos

Follow the winding channel with one continuous blue fill.

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Digital example: Three lavender hippos in a blue channel between green grass and beige rocks.

1. Lavender-gray — hippos
2. Blue — water
3. Green — foliage
4. Beige — rocks and bank
5. Brown — tree trunk and branches
6. Pink — inner ears

Color each visible hippo body lavender-gray, preserving the facial lines.
Fill the river blue, working around bodies, plants and ripple lines.
Repeat green across leaves, grasses, bushes and tree crowns.
Color the rocks and dry far bank beige.
Color the tree trunk and branches brown.
Add pale pink inside the ears.

Check that three separate bodies sit inside the blue channel and the ripple lines remain clear.

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