47 Beautiful Forest and Fantasy related Designs printed on one side of white non-perforated paper

I love to color animals and flowers whether real or fantasy related. In this book, I get the both of best worlds. The book is filled with great and fun to color designs. The designs are curated from around the world which means that they have been licensed from a number of designers. This gives us a wide variety of styles in a single book instead of having to buy multiple books.

The designs vary in size and complexity with some being easy to color and others having small and intricate parts to them. I decided to color one of the intricate designs with fairly large swathes of color using my water-based Tombow markers with the brush end. I then went back with other markers to color in some of the details. It made for a fun evening of color without straining my brain, eyes, or hand.

The designs are printed on one side of thin white paper. The pages are not perforated but the artist has left ample room to cut a page out if you choose to do so. The binding is glued rather than sewn so you will have to cut the pages if you want to remove them. The designs all have finished elements or a small framing line on the outer portions of the designs. I really like this as it helps give work a more polished a finished look.

You can see a list of my coloring medium used for testing below. All of my markers (water-based as well as alcohol) and all of my gel pens bleed through this paper. My coloring pencils work well with it and behave according to their type of lead (though my hard lead pencils leave a noticeable indent on the back of the page. As the backside of the page is blank, I can use a heavyweight paper or chipboard beneath my working page to keep ink from leaking through or my indents from marring the page beneath. Chipboard can be purchased at an office supply store or on-line fairly inexpensively. I can reuse it many times over, so that is becoming my standard blotter sheet.

These are the coloring medium that I use for testing. If there is something else you feel I should be testing, please let me know and I will see if I can add it to my growing pile:

Markers: 1) alcohol-based Copic Sketch, Prismacolor double ended markers (brush and fine point), Sharpies (fine and ultra-fine) and 2) water-based Tombows dual end markers (brush and fine point), Stabilo 88, Staedler triplus fineliners, and Pentel markers

Gel Pens: Sakura, Fiskars, Uni-ball Signo 0.38, and Tekwriter

Coloring Pencils: Prismacolor Premier Soft Core, Derwent Colorsoft, Prismacolor Verithins, and Faber-Castel Polychromos

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