25 Fantastic grayscale style Dragon Designs printed on one side of the page

Colour My Sketchbook DRAGONS

By: Bennett Klein

Rating: 5 of 5

I have a number of Bennett Klein’s coloring books and have been hoping that he would do one dedicated to dragons and here it is! It is everything I had hoped for and more. The designs are printed primarily on white backgrounds but a few of them have black printed backgrounds. The dragons have a fierce and very realistic look to them. They are fearsome dragons but seem very gentle with their chosen companions. I am so appreciative of this particular book that I am buying extras for gifts for my friends and family who enjoy coloring fantasy.

As with his other coloring books with black backgrounds, the designs in this format in this book also have wonderful gray tone elements which give the overall look a wonderful accent.
I will be able to use both my markers and my colored pencils while coloring in this book. As that is my preferred coloring method (markers for background and pencils for details), I am very happy with the way the book has been published.
The artist provides a table of contents with the title of each of his pieces of art. I really appreciate that extra touch as many of the titles give context to his intent with the design.
This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper.
25 Hand-drawn Dragon illustrations with both white and black backgrounds
Designs are printed on one side of thin, slightly rough non-perforated paper typical of CreateSpace. All of the paper is white; if there is a black background, it is printed on white paper.
Glue Binding
Easy to open to flat position for coloring
Designs do not merge into the binding and there is plenty of room to cut pages out if you choose to do so
Alcohol and water-based markers bleed through the page to some degree. Water-based bleed through in spots while alcohol-based bleed through freely
Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows of color on the back of page. India ink can bleed through if you use multiple layers or apply heavily.
Colored pencils work well with this paper. Both oil and wax based provide good color when I use multiple layers of the same color. I am easily able to blend (using a pencil style blender stick) and layer multiple colors as well. Hard lead pencils leave dents through the back of the page.
Because of the bleed through and dents, I suggest (and use) a blotter page below my working page no matter what medium I use. I prefer card stock but several sheets of heavyweight paper work as well.