Daily Archives: February 9, 2016

The Doodle series is a fun set of coloring books that push the envelope on coloring designs. I own Doodle Invasion and Doodle Fusion and have enjoyed coloring the designs by the artists who teamed up with Zifflin on those books. Doodle Chaos has yet another new artist (to me), Irvin Ranada. Once again, the central theme is quirky little characters, animals, and other odd bits and pieces are drawn in such a way as to create another image (I especially like the take on the Statue of Liberty and New York City) or to create a silly or cute vignette (such as the little critters in the gumball machine.) The 32 designs are fun to color as your imagination can take over and you can use any color you wish.

The designs are printed on one side of thin white non-perforated paper. The binding is glued rather than sewn, so you will have to cut pages out if you choose to remove them from the book. Almost all of the designs in the book merge into the binding, so you will lose parts of the design if you remove them from the book. By breaking the spine somewhat, I was able to get the book to lay fairly flat.

All of my markers, India ink art pens, and gel pens leak through this paper to some degree. My coloring pencils work well but the hard lead pencils leave an indent on the back of the page. Because of the paper, I will always use a blotter page (card stock or heavy weight paper) under the page I am working on to keep the following design from being ruined by leaking ink and/or dents from my hard lead pencils. I will list, in the comments section below, the coloring mediums I used to test this coloring book.