Adult Coloring Book: Designs
By: Two Hoots Coloring
Rating: 5 of 5
This is a coloring book of 48 designs that have lots of patterning within them. Most of the designs are intricate while others are fairly open and easy to color. The intricate designs are not difficult to color (i.e., they don’t have tiny little spaces) but certainly take a little more time and thought. Most of the designs are mandalas which I find fun to color as it gives me the opportunity to try different colorways. These designs are curated which means that they are licensed from various artists. It gives you a wider range of design styles but along with it, you get very different quality of lines and print. Some designs have heavy and/or dark black lines while others seem almost dark gray in color. In a few very, some of the lines seem less distinct than in others.
The designs are printed on one side of thin white. 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, and Tekwriter
Coloring Pencils: Prismacolor Premiere 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.