Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A Book of 20 Postcards to Color
By: HarperCollins Publishers
Rating: 5 of 5
This is a set of postcards (from Harper Collins) which is based on the first coloring book in the new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series. Postcards are, by nature, somewhat more difficult to color as everything is scaled so much smaller than in a book. I’ve found that if I use small nib gel pens, ultra-fine point markers, and very sharp and hard pencils, I have an easier time getting into all the small and intricate details.
The mix of designs in the postcards are fairly good for my taste. It includes many of the designs I enjoyed from the original coloring book and it will be nice to color them again (especially using small nib alcohol-based markers.) I don’t really send postcards per se, so I will probably mount these on folded cards and either frame them or give them as cards. That is my personal preference but these should hold up well as postcards in use provided you use waterproof medium so that rain and moisture won’t cause havoc with your coloring.
Here is a brief overview of what I found in this set of postcards:
20 Postcards based on the Fantastic Beasts Magical Characters coloring book.
Printed on one side of heavy weight, somewhat smooth, white card stock
Address and stamp areas are defined and printed on the back of the card
Postcards are glue bound with a hinged cover (think notepad style glue binding.) They are very easy to remove from the binding.
Alcohol-based markers left a faint shadow on the back of the card
Water-based markers, India ink and gel pens do not bleed through the card stock. Gel pens took a longer than usual time to dry.
Colored pencils worked well with this slightly smooth paper. I tested both oil and wax based pencils and got good color with multiple layers of the same color, good results from layers of different colors and fairly nice results using a blending stick.