31 Inuit inspired animal designs – printed one side of page

Creative Haven Untamed Designs Coloring Book (Adult Coloring)

By: Arkady Roytman

Rating: 5 of 5

When I ordered this book, I thought it would be merely doodle style animals. I enjoy coloring that style of design provided it is original artwork. I was really surprised to find that Untamed Designs is inspired by Inuit patterns and designs. I’ve enjoyed Inuit art for a number of years after my husband and I took some vacations in the areas where the artwork is more prevalent.

The designs are quite detailed. In some cases, there are intricate and small elements that may require small nib pens, markers, or sharp pencils to color. In the comments section below, I’ll list the coloring medium I used for testing this book and which I use most of the time for coloring.

The designs in this book feature many types of animals and they all have lots of detailed and sometimes intricate doodles in them or in the rest of the design. I sometimes use these as an opportunity to explore with color variations and other times, I simply color the animal, doodle and all, with one big swathe of color essentially ignoring the doodle. I did a little of both in my first two projects in this book: a wolf and a zebra. I liked the way both turned out and will continue through the book having fun coloring in different ways.

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

31 Animal designs with an Inuit influence doodle concept

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 colorful shadows on the back of the page. India ink can bleed through in spots if you use several layers of ink.

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 usually remove pages from Creative Haven books for coloring. If you prefer to keep it in the book, you may want to consider using a blotter page of card stock or several sheets of heavyweight paper to keep seeping ink and marring dents from damaging the pages below you working page.