Believe Adult Coloring Book (31 stress-relieving designs) (Studio: Artists' Coloring Books)

This is a coloring book with designs of animals and plants (including many flowers.) Unlike Posh books from earlier years, this book focuses on a single artist, Zoe Ingram, instead of a single subject matter with multiple artists. The designs in the book are beautiful and will be a joy to color. There are all sorts of flowers and a few of the animals include: deer, rabbits, peacocks, an owl, and a swan. There are also some lovely mandalas included. The designs in this book are detailed and beautiful. While they will take some time to color, I don't think that they will require anything special by way of coloring medium. The pages are a heavyweight of bright white paper that is micro perforated. The designs are printed on one side of the page only and while most stop prior to the perforations, a few extend beyond it. The designs do not merge into the binding area; however, a number of design elements are cut off on the edges of the designs which leaves open-ended parts to the design. The paper in this book is also acid-free which means that it will not turn colors with age and all the work you put into coloring the designs should be safe. The binding is glued rather than sewn. If you are willing to “break” the spine a bit, it can be pushed into lying flat to give you access to make coloring in this book if you prefer that over taking pages out. My alcohol-based markers bleed through this paper. My water-based markers do not. My gel pens work fine and do not leave a shadow on the backside of the page. Coloring pencils work well and as expected according to their type (soft or hard core.) If you are using alcohol based markers or just for general safety, you can put an extra page of card stock or chipboard under the page you are working on to keep ink from leaking through. 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) and 2) water-based – Tombows dual end markers (brush and fine point), Stabilo 88, Staedler triplus fineliners, and Pentel markers Gel Pens: Sakura, Fiskars, Uni-ball Signo 0.38/0.28 and Tekwriter Coloring Pencils: Prismacolor Premier Soft Core, Derwent Colorsoft, Prismacolor Verithins, and Faber-Castel Polychromos

Awesomeness is the Best word I know to describe the coloring book .... It's has 31 Beautifully created pages .... Flowers in a vase, whimsical little rain clouds with raindrops falling, hot air balloons, a whimsical "Imagine" drawing, birds, dragonflies, kites, just to name a few .... The paper is a heavy type paper, I'm not anticipating any bleed thru problems .... The drawings themselves are clear & well defined & can be torn out (I like to tear mine out to color .... It's just easier for me) .... The book itself is well made; No fear of the pages coming unbound unless you take them out .... There are simple designs right down to intricate ones; some that would take just alittle while to ones more time consuming .... I can't wait to finish the page I'm on & started on these .... I Highly Recommended It for Any Level of Coloring 😍

This book has quite a few pictures to color. It's very relaxing to lie in bed and bring the pages to life with my many colored pens. There are complex pictures as well as easy pictures. Each one is a joy to brighten with my colored pens.

I do really like this book. The paper is good quality. The pictures are beautiful. The reason I gave it a 4 is because of the margins. I would rather have a bit of a margin around the picture instead of the picture going directly to the edge. This makes the pictures a bit difficult to color, especially the pictures near the back. The book really doesn't open flat.

This book is the by far that I have ordered...the pages are great to color..there not to thin..so I'm trying to find another one just like it but with different ..😁

While the coloring book is fun and relaxing it is not the greatest for gel pens, which is what I use. I have two different brands of gel pens this happens with both. They do not dry quickly or even a longer period of time....while that is good for blending colors you have to be extremely careful that you do not smear the colors. VERY easy to do. You almost cannot work on a picture for any length of time before some part of your hand gets into a wet area. I do not have the steadiest of hands so take that into consideration. The pages are so that you can take them out of the book quite easily and this is a nice feature and the colors do not bleed through...another nice feature. You almost have to take the page out of the book and maybe work on one page and while that fully dries work on another.

Awesome book! Love all the pictures and the pages are very thick, however I was not expecting the book to be so square shaped and I have a hard time coloring without taking pages out of the book, other than that this is my favorite book!

Thick pages without two-sided pictures so one isn’t ruined when you color on one side. I like this trait in a coloring book.