31 Animal Designs with Angular Doodles printed one side of the page

Creative Haven Insanely Intricate Angular Animals Coloring Book (Adult Coloring)

By: Connor Martyn

Rating: 4 of 5

While this book definitely contains detailed designs, I don’t know if I would consider them insanely intricate. There are 31 animal designs that have been filled with what I see to be mostly triangles (though there are a few circles and other shapes as well.) The doodle elements are not tiny but they can be time consuming to color. I didn’t have to use any unusually small nib pens, markers, etc. to color my first project.

I do like doodle style designs if I don’t have to try to figure out where things stop and start and, for the most part, I found that this book was fairly easy to work with. The animals designs are all quite different but the doodles in each follow a similar format of shape and style.

This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper:

31 Animal Designs with lots of angle style doodles.

Printed on one side of the page

Paper is standard for Creative Haven: medium weight, white, lightly rough and perforated

Glue bound but pages can be removed easily at perforations

Designs stop before the perforations

Alcohol and water based markers bleed through to some degree

Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows of color on the back of the page

Coloring pencils work well with this paper. Both wax and oil based pencils lay down good color, layer and blend well. Hard lead pencils leave dents on the back of the page.

I remove pages from Creative Haven books for coloring or use card stock or several sheets of heavyweight paper as a blotter below my working page. That keeps the rest of the book safe from seeping ink.