Daily Archives: October 16, 2015

I received a free sample of this coloring book for test and review purposes.

This is coloring book filled with adorable dog designs. Most of them are based on simple line drawings but are filled in (both inside of the dog and in the background) with lighter design elements which are cute and fun. The bonus pages seem to be sketches of dogs (rather than line drawings) and have had other design items added around them.

While the designs are really cute and should be fun to color for the most part, most of the designs simply stop near the edge without a frame which leaves the colorist with open-ended and unfinished elements to their coloring. This is a particular nit of mine as I hate to be left without a definite edge or finished element as it gives a very uneven and unfinished look to my work.

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I received a free sample of this coloring book for test and review purposes.

This is coloring book filled with cute cat designs. There are a variety of styles but most are line drawings with fun elements added both inside and around the cats. Others are stylized portraits of cat faces and the bonus pages have pictures of many different types of cats, including wild and large cats.

While almost all of these cat designs are very cute and fill be lots of fun to color, there are a couple things to note: print quality between designs are quite different, a few designs are sized too large for the page and edges are missing, and some designs simply stop near the edge without a frame which leaves the colorist with open-ended and unfinished elements to their coloring. All three of these issues could be fixed in future books.

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