Doodle Dogs Coloring Book for Adults
By: Happy Coloring
Rating: 5 of 5
I own most of Amanda Neel’s coloring books and really appreciate her artistic ability. In her previous dog coloring book, Lovely Dogs, she portrayed a realistic version of various dog breeds. In Doodle Dogs, she takes a different approach by creating a realistic outline of the dog and then filling them with beautiful doodles. That allows me to go experiments with colors to create a dog of my own imagining.
The designs are quite detailed and have intricate spots to color. Other than using an ultra-fine point marker, I didn’t have to use anything special to color the designs.
There are two types of designs in the book. One is a head portrait and the other is a full body portrait. The head portraits have elaborate doodle style frames around them. The full body designs have backgrounds included and a simple line frame around the outside of the design. There are a variety of breeds included but, unfortunately, no listing of which are in the book.
This is what I found when I colored in this book and tested the paper with my various coloring medium:
30 Doodle Dog designs of various breeds
Designs are printed on one side of the page.
Paper is typical of CreateSpace, thin, white, slightly rough and non-perforated.
Glue Binding
Designs stop before the binding area with plenty of room to cut out pages if you choose to do so.
Designs have frames or framing lines around the outer edges of the design
Book opens fairly flat for coloring
Alcohol and water-based markers bleed through the paper though water-based are mostly spotting.
Gel pens and India ink pens leave colorful shadows. India ink can bleed through if you use multiple coats of medium.
Colored pencils work well with the paper though hard leads leave dents at the back of the page. Oil an wax-based pencils can provide good color (especially with multiple layers.) I was able to blend and layer well with all types of pencils.
I suggest using a blotter page under your working page to keep both dents and ink from marring the pages below.