Dog and Cat Coloring Books are the most popular in the adult coloring book genre but other animal coloring books are also popular. I wanted to start with some of the lesser-known books that you might enjoy.
This adorable story about the romantic journey with a cow named Lulu as she searches for her true love will win your heart. It’s professionally published with nice quality paper and 68 illustrations.
After seeing colorings from this book on Instagram I purchased it on Amazon. It’s a greyscale book that makes your colorings really come to life. It’s a hardbound book that opens at the top so great for left-handed colorists too.
Over 70 unique and stunning hand-drawn illustrations of chickens, roosters and baby chicks by an artist and a chicken owner. The illustrations vary from minimal detail to highly detailed, making it perfect for multiple coloring methods. Click to Order Amazon US
20 hand-drawn whimsical chicken illustrations for the chicken lover as well as anyone who enjoys humor and coloring. Color fanciful chickens in pajamas and bunny slippers or covered with detailed flowers and leaves. Those drawings are then recreated in a 4×6 size for framing or card making Click to Order Amazon US
Lots of fun whimsical representations of 26 sheep and fiber-producing animals including a variety of sheep breeds, alpaca, llama, goats, yak, muskox and more. Images include Zentangle-inspired designs and decorative fiber animals for adult coloring enthusiasts. Coloring pages are printed on one side to prevent bleed-through. Friends include Alpaca, Angora Rabbits, Angora Goat, Bison, Bactrian Camel, Cashmere Goat, Highland Cow, Horse, Llama, Muskox, Old English Sheepdog, Pygora Goat, Vicuna and Yak. Sheep breeds include (whimsical interpretations) Border Leicester, Cheviot, Icelandic, Lincoln, Merino, Oxford Down, Rough Fell, Rambouillet, Scottish Blackface, Shetland.
72 pages of beautiful and meditative horse-themed designs including ponies, unicorns, winged horses, and horseshoe patterns are all included. Horses is a top-bound coloring pad is perfect for the right and left-handed.
Kerby Rosanes coloring books certainly can’t be left off the list of Animal Coloring books and every colorist needs to have at least one of these books of art in their collection.
Kerby works in intricately detailed black and white line to create creatures, characters, patterns, and tiny elements to form compositions of mind-boggling complexity.
In Imagimorphia, animals and objects morph and explode into astounding detail. Bring each intricate image to life with color and find the objects hidden throughout the book.
These are something a little different and more interactive than your standard coloring book, these animal masks are ready for you to color in and then punch out, attach the elastic strap included with the coloring book from Barrons Educational Books and have fun. Perfect for a party any time of the year.
Of course, I have to mention some of the most well-known animal coloring books as well, those by Millie Marotta.
Animal Kingdom Color Me, Draw Me- Illustrated by Millie Marotta
Millie’s first coloring book was “Animal Kingdom” in 2014 which includes all sorts of detailed animals from beautiful birds to fantastic fish, delicate dragonflies to elaborately decorated elephants.
Reviewers have things like this to say about Millie’s second coloring book:
“In her books, you’ll find whimsical images of idiosyncratic animals, flowers in bloom, and sophisticated patterns at play. Who doesn’t love the idea of immersing oneself into a fantastical world of monochromatic illustrations and bringing them to (colorful) life?” —MarthaStewart.com
60 cat designs are made up of hundreds of triangles that, when filled in, transform a flat illustration or 2D piece of work into a 3D image. Each page has a different breed of cat from the ordinary to the rare. The color keys on each page allow you to use either traditional colors or bright non-realistic colors for a pop-art look. Some of the cats have quite tiny spaces to color while others are a bit larger. This reminds me of those picture puzzles in crossword books where you didn’t know how the picture would turn out until the end.
I kept seeing amazing illustrations in my Facebook Colorings groups where the books are not available on Amazon or Book Depository and it is quite distressing to see some of the beautiful colorings and not being able to see them all for yourself, then I found Etsy. Not only can you get the beautiful Japanese, Polish and European books from the Etsy shop owners but you can also get instant gratification from some of your favorite artists as they sell you downloadable PDFs that you can be printing and coloring in a matter of moments.
Tanya Bond is one of my favorite figurative artists who shares her work with us to color in, paint in or just use as beautiful works of art as inspiration.
She has just released a new downloadable book on her Etsy page here
One of my first coloring books purchased was Tanya Bond’s Inklings via Amazon. While I adored her artwork, the CreateSpace paper just didn’t do it justice. I was thrilled to discover that she sells her books along with a ton of her art in both digital download formats as well as all of her coloring books on beautiful thick paper. I immediately ordered both.
Tanya Bond’s artwork is incredible with her iconic big eyed girls most of which have their lovely animal friend as well. These books are printed on one side with gorgeous thick paper. You won’t be disappointed. YES, they are more expensive than on Amazon but if you are a paper snob like I am, it’s worth it.
“Inklings 2” colouring book has 24 black line illustrations and a full colour cover showing examples of inklings in colour. The book is a big but easily manageable A4 size (a little under 9×12 inches) and has 150gsm pages that are stapled together with a full-colour cover into one beautiful colouring book. The images are printed on one side of the pages – the back of each image is blank. Click to order on Etsy.
I’m about to receive this book from the author so I will post a flip thru as soon as I can but in the meantime, you can take a look at the colored in images from this little gem on Instagram here. The book ships direct to you from the Czech Republic via her Etsy profile here.
Klara messaged me this morning that she has been able to get her book Čarovné lahodnosti’s / Magical Delights in stock on Amazon US. Yes it is a bit more expensive than most books but it’s worth the extra cost.
You’ll notice that the facing pages have a spot for you to write in and provide you with a backing to avoid bleed through. This is from Fairy Celebrations
Ellen Topitzer Illustrations
Ellen’s art is exclusive to Etsy with 8 original drawings available for immediate download by clicking here. This one is my favorite!
This instant download coloring book has 60 gorgeous intricate frosty winter snowflake patterns to color in. I would recommend sparkly gel pens and narrow markers for most of these leaving the larger spaces for some pencil shading work. Of course, since you can print this on your own paper, you can use your fancy alcohol markers on these too. It is available in a printed format on Amazon as well.
The first time I saw one of Daria Song’s coloring books I fell completely in love with her illustration style.
These are simply GORGEOUS Adult coloring books.
DARIA SONG is an author and artist from Seoul, Korea. Winner of the Kyung Hyang Arts Contest, Song has a master’s degree in fiber arts and has exhibited at numerous galleries and museums in Korea, Singapore, Turkey, and Hong Kong. She spent five years of her childhood in San Francisco, California, before returning to Korea, and the sense of wonder and mystery that comes from living in a far-off place inspired The Time Garden.
Daria has gone and done it again, created a magical book that is completely different from anything else on the market. I received the book from her publishers and still can’t bring myself to color in it or cut out anything because it’s just that perfect. There are paper doll sets to cut out, puzzles to do, search for treasure and mostly just enjoying the amazing artwork throughout the book. This is much more than a coloring book. I did a flip-through for the members of the Facebook group here, so join us to see.
A young girl, playing in the countryside, enters a mysterious mansion and must solve a variety of puzzles and riddles to get out. With a range of different activities—from dot-to-dot, to intricate mazes, to optical illusions and coloring pages.
I was so excited to receive Daria’s first book “The Time Garden” from Amazon and it is spectacular, gorgeous, intricate, whimsical I could gush on and on. If you like Johanna Basford’s style of illustration I think you will love these intricate coloring books too. They are completely different in subject matter yet for some reason they seem similar to me. Perhaps it is the luscious thick paper printed with pictures on both sides of the paper telling a story.
Daria Song’s Christmas Book “The Gift” or.. “Night Voyage”
The third book in Daria Song’s “Time” series is available for pre-order in the US. Known throughout Asia as “The Gift,” or “All Gifts of the World.” The English version is called “The Night Voyage: A Magical Adventure and Coloring Book” I think I like “The Gift” better but I’m not in charge. I have seen Daria sharing images from this book since October and am beyond excited to get my hands on one of them.
The Gift or All Gifts of the World or the Night Voyage are all alternate names for Daria Song’s Christmas book.
The tabby cat you see in this image is throughout the book for you cat lovers that are also Daria Song fans. Her Christmas book follows the little girl on a new nighttime adventure when the conductor of her toy train comes to life and helps her distribute gifts across the world.
The Night Voyage is an evocatively illustrated story of a little girl who is swept away on the eve of her birthday by her toy train conductor on a magical journey to distribute gifts around the globe. Taking devotees of The Time Garden and The Time Chamber on an imaginative new adventure, The Night Voyage continues Daria Song’s wildly successful series with the beautifully intricate art that her fans have come to love, featuring a world of paper cranes, penny-farthing bicycles, trolleys, cityscapes, and hot air balloon-filled skies.
In both of Daria’s books, you get to travel along with her to her childhood imagination and then out into the pages that her talented hands create and illustrate. This first book “The Time Garden” has a little red-headed girl escaping from a coo-coo clock and exploring the big beautiful world outside. My best advice is to not stick to a traditional color palette and let your creativity wander while you fill in these gorgeous illustrations with color. Order Online from Amazon USUK CanadaSpain, Italy, Sweden & France ~ Book Depository
A dazzlingly beautiful coloring book for all ages, The Time Garden will sweep you away into a whimsical cuckoo clock–inspired world, created in intricate pen and ink by the internationally best-selling Korean artist Daria Song. Then, explore the magical world outside the clock through the eyes of a fairy in the sequel, The Time Chamber: A Magical Story and Coloring Book.
Journey through the doors of a mysterious cuckoo clock into its inky inner workings to discover a magical land of clock gears, rooftops, starry skies, and giant flying owls—all ready for you to customize with whatever colors you can dream up.
The Time Chamber: A Magical Story and Coloring Book
Korean artist Daria Song’s sequel to The Time Garden takes readers on a visual journey into a magical nighttime world seen through the eyes of that same little ginger girl.
This second book in best-selling Korean artist Daria Song’s coloring series features the voyage of a fairy who, when the cuckoo clock chimes midnight, enters the human world. To the tiny fairy, everything seems enormous and magical, from the curtains to the chandelier to a mystical rowboat that takes her further into an inky adventure. Filled with the imaginative, intricately detailed illustrations Song’s readers have come to love, The Time Chamber presents a view of our world made new—and ready for coloring.
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We are not kidding you need this book if you love intriguing detailed coloring books. You probably should get two because someone else is going to want it for a gift once they see it.
All of Daria’s books feature extra-thick craft paper, ideal for non-bleed-through coloring, and the jacketed cover with flaps is removable and colorable. Special gold-foil stamping on the cover and spine and a To/From page make it perfect for gifting to adults and kids alike.
Daria Song’s Christmas Coloring Book “The Gift”
Daria has created an AMAZING Christmas Coloring book this year as well but it is only available in Korea, Viet Nam, and the Philippines right now. If you follow her on social media I’m sure you have seen many of the colored images. It’s fantastic and amazing and has everything wonderful about Christmas in it. At least Johanna gave us 4 intricate Christmas illustrations to color in this year but I am really hoping and praying for both these talented illustrators to give the UK and the US Christmas coloring books in 2016!
A full coloring page faces each week so you can enjoy coloring on the go and keep yourself organized.
The Time Chamber: A Magical Story and Coloring Book
Korean artist Daria Song’s sequel to The Time Garden takes readers on a visual journey into a magical nighttime world seen through the eyes of a fairy.
I just received Daria’s first book “The Time Garden” and it is spectacular. This gorgeous book has arrived! See the instagram video below, and images of the boat picture I’m working on first on the Coloring Book Addicts FB page.
Click to order on Amazon… not kidding you need this book if you love intriguing detailed coloring books. You probably should get two because someone else is going to want it for a gift once they see it.
This second book in best-selling Korean artist Daria Song’s coloring series features the voyage of a fairy who, when the cuckoo clock chimes midnight, enters the human world. To the tiny fairy, everything seems enormous and magical, from the curtains to the chandelier to a mystical rowboat that takes her further into an inky adventure. Filled with the imaginative, intricately detailed illustrations Song’s readers have come to love, The Time Chamber presents a view of our world made new—and ready for coloring.
Daria Song’s two books are in the large square format and printed on both sides of the luscious thick paper like Secret Garden. Here is a quick flip through of the Time Garden.
These are the four I’m excited about receiving… Let me know in the comments if I have missed any of your favorites.
You might know Steve “Squidoodle” Turner from his generous sharing of his incredibly unique black and white illustrations that he posts on many of the Coloring Book groups on Facebook. Indeed that’s how I discovered his quirky and imaginative doodle creatures and creations.
Steve’s latest and greatest creation is Skull Doodles! This isn’t your regular skull coloring book you know, for your coloring pleasure you’ll find sugar skulls, patterned skulls, skull mandalas, dinosaur skulls, unicorn skulls and other creations from this prolific illustrator.
Steve launched his second highly detailed coloring book in November of 2015. It includes all the letters of the alphabet with each letter filled with creatures and items that start with that letter.
All 26 letters of the alphabet, on single side pages with doodles items to color in. Taken from the intricate hand drawn pen drawings of Steve Turner a.k.a Squidoodle. Each letter is detailed and ornate, with doodled items beginning with that letter. Try and spot as many as you can! As well as the 26 letters of the alphabet there are four added symbols – & + = and a heart. Each letter sits centrally on the page, away from the spine – you can cut the letters out, color them and give them as gifts to family or friends.
All the pages inside this book are taken from the hand-drawn illustrations by Steve Squidoodle Turner. I carefully selected items to be contained in each letter – making it fun for kids and adults alike. The A contains an astronaut, an apple, an aeroplane, an anchor…. The B contains a bee, Big Ben, a beetle, balloons…. you get the idea!!
Steve kindly agreed to answer a few questions so you could get to know where his inspiration comes from and how the mind of an artist works.
Coloring Book Artist Steve “Squidoodle” Turner Q & A
Q. What do you Enjoy Drawing the Most? A. I love drawing animals the Most
Q. How did you get started? A. I’ve always drawn but only recently started taking it seriously. I mainly draw because it’s therapeutic.
Q. Who or what is your inspiration? A. I draw inspiration from nature and mechanics and the interesting contradiction between them.
Q. What materials do you enjoy using the most? A. Fineline pens and drawing pads.
Q. Do you like to color in your designs or prefer to have others do that? A. I prefer it when other people colour my work because it creates something completely different. I never do a drawing just for colouring, I envisage them as black and white so when someone colours my drawing, it takes on a whole new identity which is fantastic.
Q. What supplies or brands do you recommend for your book or designs? A. For colouring in I’ve heard prismacolour pencils are pretty good. Sharpies are bold but they bleed a little. I’d like to see someone colour my drawing with pastels.
Q. What is your favorite thing to do when you aren’t doing art? A. Apart from drawing, I like going away camping in my old campervan. But I still take a sketchbook with me….
Bonus! I asked Steve if there was anything else I should ask that his fans might want to know about him. He came up with the question…”What’s the strangest thing you’ve drawn?” A. I did a commissioned drawing of the entire digestive system. It was really unusual and fun and I actually learned a lot doing it.
Steve’s first coloring books is available on Amazon
In Steve’s words….. My first coloring book for grown-ups or kids! Squidoodle’s Adventures in Colouring and Doodling is an A4 (For we Yanks that’s 8 1/2 x 11 letter size) It’s a 16-page coloring book, on single sides, featuring all the favorites: Ornate owl, campervan, dragon, Steampunk and more. Color it in, Doodle the backgrounds….or both! Printed on single sides so if you use pens, it doesn’t matter if they go through. Many of the designs have white areas for you to complete in your own doodle style.
Steve created this detailed Breast Cancer Ribbon for everyone to color-in in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month of October. He would love to see you color it in and post it to his Facebook page. He’s been overwhelmed with how many people have downloaded and colored.
*****GRAB YOUR PINK PENS AND COLOUR FOR BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH*****
Let’s raise some money!! As you all know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I have drawn a doodle-ribbon, with flowers, hearts, butterflies, a “There is always hope” scroll, leaves, diamonds, a dove, a glass of wine and loads more. I want you all to color it. In hot pinks.. pencils, pens, whatever you fancy. All I ask, is that if you download, print it and color it, please take a photo of your colouring and make a small donation to the Cancer charity of your choice. Then send me the photo and I’ll create an album on my page, of all the wonderful colored ribbons. Make sure you share this so others can get involved. You don’t need to tell me who you have donated to, or how much, but if you do we can get a better idea of how much we can raise.
Bennett Klein started out quietly entering the coloring book market with a single book and yet his popularity has skyrocketed in the last year with his Facebook coloring group waiting anxiously every Friday for his #FridayFreebie offer.
Bennett Klein Colour My Sketchbook Coloring Books
Mr. Klein’s images are incredibly imaginative and ridiculously detailed. He often merges mythical creatures with real ones, or two creatures into a completely new creation that will enchant you as you color.
Latest line art coloring book offering from Bennett Klein
Not a big surprise, every image in this Bennett Klein book contains a flower of some sort, not in the expected ways of course! One of my favorites is topping an ice cream cone.
In case you ever wondered whether or not artistic talent can be inherited, take a look at Bennett Klein’s daughter Mae’s work in her new “Maedalas” series of Coloring Books. I also have to say that Mae does a better job on the covers of her books. Maybe she could help her dad out with those!
This book was the first of Mr. Klein’s incredible art that I experienced and though the paper isn’t the greatest, it’s one of those books where you choose to either work with the Createspace paper or you copy the images onto cardstock. He also has a few of his books available at a slightly lower cost in electronic version
A classically-trained illustrator and compulsive sketcher, Bennett Klein has been designing and illustrating for over 30 years. His preference for fanciful black and white drawings is a natural fit for the adult colouring world.
presents a view of our world made new—and ready for coloring.
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