Creative Animals Coloring Book for Adults Paperback – March 1, 2016

This is my second coloring book by artist Juliana Emerson. The first, “Cute Cats” is one of my favorite realistic cat coloring books. In “Creative Animals”, Ms. Emerson has created 30 “doodle” style animals with some with blank backgrounds and others in various settings. The outline of the animals is very realistic; however, the doodles give the colorist the ability to use many different colors in place of a realistic rendering of the animal.There are many animal designs in this book, including: lion, koala bear, elephant, cat, peacock and much much more. I am really pleased to see a “doodle” style book of original designs as so many others are simply licensing that I have already seen and colored before.My first project in this coloring book was the elephant in a savannah setting. I used my Tombows water-based markers for this design. I find that using the brush side gives a more muted water-color effect to my projects.I will provide a detailed description of what I found in the book below, but here is a quick overview:30 Hand-drawn “doodle” style animals designsDesigns are printed on one side of non-perforated white pageGlue boundDesigns do not merge into the bindingAlcohol and water-based markers bleed through pageGel pens and Pitt India Ink pens leave shadows of color on back of pageColoring pencils work well with this paperThe designs are printed on one side of thin white non-perforated paper that is typical for books published by CreateSpace. The binding is glued but there is plenty of room for you to cut a page out if you choose to do so. The designs stop well before the binding. I was able to get the book to lay flat by press down hard on the open spine.All of the designs have a “framing” line around the outside. I really like this as it gives me a natural stopping point, saves ink/pencil, and also gives me a more finished looking project when I color. I always try to mention it if an artist includes this feature.I test my coloring books with a wide variety of coloring medium, which I will list at the end of this review. Here is what my tests found:All of my markers (alcohol and water based) bleed through and my gel pens and India Ink artist pens either bleed through or leave a distinct shadow on the back of the page. My coloring pencils work well with the paper and behave as expected for their type of lead. The hard lead leaves indents on the back of the page. I will use a piece of chipboard or heavy paper behind the page I am working on so I don't ruin the following page with leaking ink.These are the coloring medium that I use for testing. If there is something else you feel I should be testing, please let me know and I will see if I can add it to my growing pile:Markers: 1) alcohol-based – Copic Sketch, Prismacolor double ended markers (brush and fine point), Sharpies (fine and ultra-fine) Bic Mark-its (fine and ultra-fine) and 2) water-based – Tombows dual end markers (brush and fine point), Stabilo 88, and Staedler triplus finelinersIndia Ink: Faber-Castell PITT artist pens (brush tip)Gel Pens: Sakura, Fiskars, Uni-ball Signo in the following sizes - 0.28/0.38/0.5/1.0 and TekwriterColoring Pencils: Prismacolor Premier Soft Core, Derwent Colorsoft, Prismacolor Verithins, Caran D'Ache Pablo Colored Pencils and Faber-Castell Polychromos

If it weren't for the thin paper and cheap printing/ink, this book would have gotten five stars. The designs are fun.The paper is so thin that you can see the design on the following page while you're coloring the one you're working on. I recommend using a backing sheet to block that out. Good thing the pages are at least single sided.The ink smudges into a lot of the lighter colored pencils I've used...not all of them. It must have something to do with the base used for the pencils, but it shouldn't be happening at all.

Has good pic's in it to color. Has a wide variety of different animals . You can use color pencils or pens but if you use pens you might want to have paper underneath the on you are working on just in case of color bleed through. I have just used pencils and have not had any problems with colors going through.

Very creative and intricate patterns. These patterns are not got the new artist but for experienced artist simply amazing! You creative juices begin to flow as soon as you open you open your book. Hours of fun.

I just started coloring in this book so far I love all the different animal pictures. I am new at adult colring and this book is done in such a way that it is very easy to follow as far as what colors to use. I would recommend it to anyone who is just starting to do adult coloring.

Glad I purchased this coloring book! Love it! I do a lot of coloring and I love the pictures! Swift delivery, thank you Amazon!

My granddaughter and daughter love them. From the moment these books were on the shelves they've wanting them. Beautiful colors. They are very pleased.

Gorgeous pages to color with lots of layers

jadore mes livres les images la qualité du papier,mais malheureusement plier par poste canada car je vie au 4ieme etage d'un bloc appartement je suis decu de la poste

Dieses Malbuch beinhaltet ausgesprochen schöne Zeichnungen, teilweise mit Hintergrund, es sind wunderbare Vorlagen zum Ausmalen, die Ergebnisse machen Freude. Sehr empfehlenswert.

Sehr schönes Buch, sehr wertig und tolle Vorlagen. Würde es immer wieder verschenken, aber das erste bleibt auf jeden Fall bei uns!

I love it.