20 Great Animorphia Postcards on card stock already printed for ease of use in addressing and mailing

Animorphia Postcards

By: Kerby Rosanes

Rating: 5 of 5

While I was a tiny bit disappointed that Kerby Rosanes iconic cover art design was not included in this set, that was the only small complaint I had about the set. There are 20 postcards, each with a different design. Rather than just shrink designs to fit, these are designs that are cropped and, in most cases, enlarged for ease of coloring. It makes for a whole new coloring experience for those of us who have Mr. Rosanes coloring book.

While the elements of the designs were enlarged for these postcards, I still found that I needed fairly sharp pencils and ultra-fine or brush markers and small nib gel pens to color much of the designs. Some of the designs are quite intricate and may prove challenging for those who have issues with vision and fine motor skills.

I was so happy that I could use markers without worry of bleed-through (though my alcohol-based markers did seep through a bit.) I don’t use most of my postcards as such. Instead, I mount the on cards and either frame them as gifts or use them as cards. Because of that, I don’t care about a tad of bleed through but I will include a picture of the back so you can see for yourself.

I’m actually hoping to see an artist’s edition similar to those by other artists where the designs are printed on card stock and are on the page without loss of design in the binding. That would be the perfect way to color some of the fantastic animal designs from the original book. In the meantime, this is a pint-size version of my dream Rosanes book and I am enjoying it tremendously.

This is what I found while coloring in this set of cards and testing my coloring medium on the card stock. In the comments section below, I’ll include a list of the medium I use for testing and for most of my coloring projects.

20 Designs cropped from the Animorphia coloring book by Kerby Rosanes

Printed on one side of card stock

Card stock is white, heavyweight and slightly smooth

Glue binding (in the sense of a notepad where pages can easily be removed in whole.

Back is printed for use as a postcard

Alcohol-based markers bleed through slightly. A little more than spotting but not enough to bleed onto my blotter page below. I recommend either removing the postcard from the book to color or the use of a blotter just in case. I cut down a piece of heavyweight paper to keep in the book.

Water-based markers, gel pens, and India ink artist pens do not bleed through this card stock.

Colored pencils worked well. Both wax and oil based pencils provided good color, layered, and blended well. Hard lead pencils provide deep and crisp color.