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Dragons: An Adult Coloring Book with Fun, Beautiful, and Relaxing Coloring Pages (Perfect Gift for Dragon Lovers)

By: Jade Summer

Rating: 5 of 5

This wonderful fantasy coloring book contains 25 unique designs but you are given two copies of each there is a total of 50 design pages. The line drawings are of various types of dragons. There is a nice variety of dragon styles with all having a serious look about them. A few seem gentle in the hands of their human, with even the baby dragons, there is no mistaking that each one can be ferocious when necessary.

Gray is used in a number of the illustrations for shading purposes. It’s easy to color over and get a nice shade effect. The designs are quite detailed and some contain small and intricate areas to color.
While you can have access to .PDFs when you purchase this book, my review is based on the book as it is received from Amazon. That way you will know what the pages look like and how they accept color. I like that the publisher provides the digital version as well so you can choose the paper you wish to use and/or to color the pictures as many times as you choose.
This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring medium:
25 x 2 each intricate and detailed dragon inspired designs for a total of 50 coloring pages
Designs are printed on one side of the page
Paper is typical of CreateSpace: white, thin, slightly rough and non-perforated. The back of the page is printed black.
The designs do not merge into the binding. There is a heavy framing line at the outer edges of the design.
Glue Binding (there is room to cut the pages out if you choose to do so.)
Though you cannot see the bleed-through easily due to the back of the page being printed in black, I recommend the use of a blotter page when working in this book. I use a page of card stock or several sheets of heavyweight paper under my working page. It keeps seeping ink and marring dents from ruining the pages below.
Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page quickly.
Water-based markers bleed through in spots.
Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows on back of the page. India ink can bleed through if you apply heavily or multiple coats.
Coloring Pencils work well with this paper. I found that I could layers the same color for deeper pigment or multiple colors and I could blend easily using a blending stick. I tested both oil and wax based pencils. I also found that hard lead pencils leave dents through the paper.