20 Fantasy with great details printed on side of the card stock page

Fantasia An Adult Coloring Book Of Fantasy & Mythology: Spiral Bound, 100lb Coverstock Paper, Perforated Pages, Story Edition

By: Casey L Gilmore

Rating: 5 of 5

This is a beautiful and very different type of fantasy coloring book. Along with the extremely well-drawn artwork, the artist has included an interesting story about each of the design characters in the book. The story pages are printed on the left side and the designs are on the right. It helps put the character into context and gives me a back story to think about as I am coloring. The designs are detailed and some include a considerable amount of shading. It stops short of grayscale but some of the techniques I use in grayscale, I use with portions these designs.

It seems to me that some of the characters come from mythology and legend, some from fantasy games, and others possibly from the imagination of the artist. It proved to be a really nice mix of design concepts.

The book is published in a fantastic manner. The pages are heavyweight card stock and the binding is spiral. This makes it easy to get the book to lay flat for coloring. Add to that, the pages are all perforated and you simply can’t get a better published coloring book format than this one.

This is what I discovered as I colored in this book and tested the paper with my coloring medium:

20 Fantasy Detailed Fantasy designs with story included

Printed on one side of the page

Pages are heavyweight, warm white, lightly smooth, and perforated

Spiral binding

Designs stop before the perforations for ease of removal without loss of design elements

Book opens to flat position effortlessly

Alcohol-based markers can lightly spot through the page with heavy application. If you use a free flowing marker, such as Copics, you might want to use a blotter page below for peace of mind though I doubt it will bleed through to the page below.

Water-based markers, gel pens, and India ink pens do not bleed through the page

Coloring pencils work well with this card stock. I was able to blend, layer and get good pigment lay down with both oil and wax based pencils.

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