Lost in woods
By: Yu Chen Huang
Rating: 5 of 5
This is my third coloring book by the talented artists at Dream State Studio. This new book is by artist ChO (Yu Chen Huang.) In addition to this coloring book, she was a contributing artist on another of my favorite coloring books Fantastic Animals. The designs in Lost In Woods have a similar look and feel lots of animals with some being very imaginatively drawn while others are most realistically drawn.
The 28 designs in this book are quite detailed and intricately drawn with lots of doodle elements. There are many tiny spots which require either a very sharp pencil or tiny nibs on pens and/or markers.
For my first project that I will upload, I used an undercoat of alcohol-based markers and then finished the design with a variety of soft and hard lead coloring pencils. While my project had some small areas to color, it was not one that I would consider as intricate as many others in the book.
This is what I found out about this book while testing and coloring in it:
28 Imaginative and Intricately drawn Animal designs
Thumbnails of each design are printed at the front of the book
Designs are printed on one side of the thin white non-perforated paper (typical of CreateSpace coloring books)
Some of the designs merge into the binding area and you will lose some portion of the design if you remove it from the book
Glue Bound
Alcohol and water-based markers bleed through this paper
Gel pens and India ink pens leave colorful shadows on the back of the page
Coloring pencils work well with this paper. The soft lead pencils blend and layer well; however, the hard lead pencils leave dents on the back of the page.
As with all Create Space published books, I highly recommend using a piece of card stock or other heavyweight paper under the page you are working on. This will keep dents and seeping ink from ruining the pages below.