How to Make an Adult Coloring Book | DIY Coloring Book

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Learn the skills needed to create your own adult coloring book!

STEPS:
First you need to draw something to sketch. I recommend starting with something easy, either flowers or tracing the silhouette of an animal. It’s important to draw a clean, stark, black line.

Remember, adult coloring books are all about repetition of patterns. Use circles, lines, and shapes to fill in spaces.

Experiment with different thicknesses or strokes of line.

Look online and get ideas from other artists. Take a look at the patterns and shapes they use.

Clean up any rough lines. If when a line connects it accidentally overlaps, thicken it up so you can’t see the mistake. Make sure all your lines connect somewhere, creating the space where someone will color it in.


Scan your drawing or take a photo of it with your phone. If you take a photo make sure the lighting is good and that there’s a high contrast on the photo.


Edit your photo, digitally, to ensure contrast is high enough. Thicken up any lines in Photoshop that may be too thin using the brush or pencil tool. Export a high quality JPEG.


Import the JPEG into Illustrator.
Select Object Image Trace Make and Expand
Then highlight the image and go to
Select Object Live Paint Make

Now each segment of your drawing can be digitally filled in. You can either print it and color by hand or color digitally using the paint bucket tool.


Enjoy your art!