47 SpongeBob Squarepants designs with majority being wallpaper style designs designs printed on one side of the page

SpongeBob’s Very Grown-Up Coloring Book (SpongeBob SquarePants) (Adult Coloring Book)

By: Random House

Rating: 4 of 5

I have been a fan of SpongeBob over the years and was excited to see a coloring book being released for adult colorists. The reality was a little disappointing in that of the 47 design pages, at least 24 pages were in a repeating wallpaper style of design. Of those, a number were done in a very small and intricate style which will make it more difficult to color. I would have preferred a mix of more designs and less repeating designs or at least bringing up the size of some of those tiny ones to a size that makes it easier to see and to color. Because of this, I find I like the book but don’t really love it.

I really like the regular design pages and those will probably be the ones that I will color. Not sure if I will ever make my way to the wallpaper designs but time will tell.

This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring mediums. In the comments section below, I will list the coloring medium I used for testing this book and which are also the ones I usually use for coloring my projects.

47 SpongeBob Squarepants Designs (plus title page)

Printed on one side of the page with a quote or saying on the back of the page

Paper is heavyweight, white, slightly rough, non-perforated

Glue Bound

Designs merge into the binding area

Book opens fairly flat for coloring by breaking or creasing the spine heavily.

Alcohol-based markers bleed through the paper. If you use this style of marker, I suggest using a blotter page under your working page. I use card stock or several sheets of heavyweight paper as my blotter.

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

Colored pencils work very well with this paper. Both oil and wax-based pencils worked equally well. I was able to layer the same color for deeper pigment, layer multiple colors, and blend easily using a pencil style stick blender.