46 Very Lovely and Intricate Hand Drawn Animal Designs printed on one side of non-perforated paper

This is a really lovely book of animal coloring designs. I have a number of other animal coloring books and yet I have never seen anything similar to this book. The animals are drawn very realistically and, for some, they remain realistic. In many cases, the artist has added doodle style patterns, designs, and flowers into the animal shape or the background to give the colorist a more fun and challenging experience. There are horses, giraffes, lions, birds, fish, elephants and many others. For the animal lover, this is a challenging and fun book that can take many hours to complete.

The designs are quite intricate and some have a bit of gray scale shading already added to them. I like to use my Tombow water-based markers on this type of area to let the already done shading work with the color I have chosen. This type of coloring reminds me when colorizing black and white photos was popular a number of years ago. It is very much a similar concept.

The designs are printed on one side of non-perforated paper. The binding is glued rather than sewn so you will have to cut pages out if you wish to remove them. Many of the designs merge into the binding, so you will lose some portion of the design if you cut the page out. In some cases, it would be portions of framing and would make your design unbalanced. I will probably not be removing pages from this book because of this reason. I was able to break the spine of the book and get it to lay fairly flat.

All of my markers (see coloring medium below) bled through this paper. My gel pens did not bleed through but left a shadow on the back of the page. That didn’t surprise me as the design is also noticeable from the back of the page. The gel pens did not take any extra drying time. My coloring pencils worked fairly well and according to the type of lead used. I will certainly be using some markers (especially my Tombows) when coloring these designs, so I will use a piece of chip board or card stock under the page that I am working on to keep the ink from leaking through the rest of the book.

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 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.