48 Imaginative Circular Doodle Designs printed one side of the page

Adult Coloring Book: Doodle Worlds (The Peaceful Adult Coloring Book Series)

By: Lei Melendres

Rating: 5 of 5

This is my second coloring book by artist Lei Melendres. The first, by another publisher, was Doodle Fusion and I have really enjoyed coloring with Mr. Melendres imaginative artwork in that book. This new book has taken his doodle artwork to a new level. The designs are in a circular form, kind of like a doodle mandala. I enjoy both forms of coloring, so getting designs that merge the two together has been great fun.

The designs are detailed to the point of being intricate. While they are intricate and detailed, I didn’t find the elements to be so small that I needed special pens, etc. to color them. The exception to this was the double-sided introduction page which, if you wish, you can color as well but is not counted as part of the 48 designs. There is just so much in this book to discover as you are coloring. I was in the middle of my first project and as I was coloring, I found things that I hadn’t seen at first glance. It was almost like having a treasure hunt.

The publishing of this book is a real improvement over the last book. The improved paper quality, the one page printing, and the perforation on each page are things that I look for. As an added bonus, there are two double-sided pages at the back of the book for use in determining color palettes. This is something I really appreciate.

This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring medium. In the comments section below, I will include a list of the coloring medium I use for my tests and which I generally use for coloring my projects.

48 Circular format Doodle Designs plus 2 double-sided color palette test pages

Printed on one side of the page

Paper is medium weight, white, slightly rough and perforated for easy removal

Glue Bound

Opens fairly flat for coloring if you crease or break the spine of the book

Alcohol-based markers bleed through this paper.

Water-based markers leave colorful shadows and tiny spots that bleed through on the back of the page.

Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows on the page of the page.

Colored pencils work well with this paper. The slight roughness of the paper is excellent for grabbing coloring from both oil and wax based pencils. I was able to get good pigment through multiple layers of the same color, to layer different colors and to blend colors using a pencils style blending stick. Hard leads left slight dents through the page when the pencils was extremely sharp.

I suggest either removing project pages from the book or using a blotter page behind your working page. I like card stock but a couple of sheets of heavyweight paper work as well.