Great coloring book based on the characters of the Discworld series printed both sides of the page

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Coloring Book

By: Terry Pratchett

Rating: 5 of 5

My husband and I have enjoyed the late Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels over the years and were very happy to find a coloring book based on those books. The illustrator is Paul Kidby whose portfolio, The Art of Discworld, is a fantastic collection of artwork based on the series. The designs in this coloring book are based on that portfolio.

There many characters and bits and pieces of various stories spread throughout. The designs are quite detailed and some have intricate and small areas to color. In addition to the line drawings, there are 16 pages of original artwork to guide your color choices if you wish to remain true to the original. Even if you go your own way with color, it is fun to have the artwork to look at (or remove if you wish as the pages are perforated.
My only small nit with the book (besides it being printed on both sides of the page) is that the two page spread designs have a white strip between the pages. In one way, I like it (as I don’t have to color into the binding. On the other hand, it does create a design that is not connected and, in my copy, there is a slight duplication of the images on both sides of the page closest to the binding. This doesn’t trouble me too much but I did want to mention that it exists.
This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing it with my coloring medium.
77 coloring book design pages based on the Discworld series and its characters. There are an addition 16 full color pictures of some of the original drawings of the designs included in the book.
Printed on both sides of the page; while most design are contained on one page there are a handful of two-page spread designs
Paper is heavyweight, white, lightly rough, and perforated
Sewn binding with perforated pages
Many designs cross over the perforations but stop short of merging into the binding. This is true of the two-page spread with results with a white strip down the middle of the two pages.
Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page. If you use these, you will have ink seep through and mar the design on the back of the page.
Water-based markers, gel pens and India ink pens do not bleed through the page.
Colored pencils work well with the paper. I was able to blend, layer the same and multiple colors using both oil and wax-based pencils with ease.