New Guide to Coloring for Crafts, Adult Coloring Books, and Other Coloristas!: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for All Skill Levels! (Design Originals) Step-by-Step Lessons & 100 Ready-to-Color Designs - Softcover

Editors Of DO Magazine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497200873 ISBN 13: 9781497200876

Publisher: Design Originals, 2016

Synopsis

There's never been a comprehensive guide to coloring as a hobby—until now! Take your experience to the next level with the first ever comprehensive coloring guidebook:

• Easy-to-follow tips & tricks for ALL skill levels: Become an accomplished colorista in no time!
• Master advanced techniques like patterning, blending, layering, cross-hatching, and shading
• Step-by-step lessons
• Beautiful examples by top coloring book artists
• Discover today's coloring tools and how best to use them
• Advice for your favorite coloring implements: Many types of gel pens, markers, colored pencils, watercolor pencils, & other art media
• More than 100 ready-to-color designs to help you apply what you've learned

Coloring can be a wonderfully relaxing way to de-stress and unwind. But getting great coloring results is not as simple as it looks—from color choices to shading techniques to drawing implements, there's much to consider before you ever put pen to paper. Don't let coloring stress you out!

Inside this friendly guidebook you'll find tons of easy-to-follow advice from best selling coloring book artists. Their tips and tricks will have you drawing like an accomplished "colorista" in no time.

Discover the differences between gel pens and markers. Learn the best way to use watercolor pencils. Understand why expensive materials are different than the cheaper ones. Master exciting techniques like patterning, blending, cross-hatching, shading, and other cool ways to "up" your coloring experience.

Learn all the cool ways you can take your coloring experience to the next level!

About this title

About the Author

Our mission at DO Magazine is to promote the handmade arts and crafts for enjoyment and health. We love to capture the inspiration and knowledge of innovative crafters, artisans and designers — to bring you fresh ideas and techniques to elevate your creative energy. At DO we are blessed to publish outstanding new work from many talented artists, ranging from coloring, drawing, pattern ornamentation and tangling to quilting, crochet, sewing, jewelry making, macramé, art journaling and more.

From the Back Cover

The Ultimate Guide to Coloring

Here is THE ultimate guide to coloring for all you millions of adult coloring book lovers out there! This is the first book of its type. There's never been a comprehensive guide to coloring as a hobby—until now.

More than just a fad, coloring books are crowding bookstore shelves and burning up the bestseller lists. But getting great results is not as simple as it looks. Inside this friendly guidebook you'll find easy-to-follow advice on tools and techniques that will have you creating art like an accomplished "colorista" in no time. Each step-by-step lesson includes beautiful examples by top coloring book artists.

Discover the many types of markers, colored pencils, gel pens, watercolors, and other art media now available—there are many more options today than you had back in grade school! Master exciting techniques like patterning, blending, layering, shading, and other cool ways to take your coloring experience to the next level.

Unleash Your Inner Colorista!

• Tips and tricks to enhance your skills
• Guide to choosing and using markers, pencils, pens, and other media
• Explore patterning, shading, blending, and layering
• Gallery of inspirational examples
• Dozens of practice coloring exercises and designs

Edition details

• Publisher: Design Originals
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1497200873
• ISBN 13: 9781497200876
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128