During the time of scripting this article (August 2015), 25 % of Amazon’s top twenty best-selling books are coloring in magazines. So what is a adult coloring book, and exactly how do these are currently outselling top fiction authors with new releases such as E.L. James and Paula Hawkins?
Adult coloring books are, plain and simple, coloring in magazines for grown ups. Like children’s coloring books, these are packed with outline illustrations meant to be completed with colored pencils, markers, crayons, or whatever other media you would like to use.
What’s in the adult coloring in book?
The real difference between adults’ and kids’ color books would be that the adult versions generally feature less juvenile images and designs. As an alternative to superheroes, barnyard animals, and tv characters, adult coloring in magazines tend to be often filled with:
aspects of natural world, such as trees, flowers, leaves, gardens, animals and insects;
geometric designs;
psychedelic patterns;
repetitive ‘wallpaper’ type patterns;
cities and buildings;
anatomical drawings;
goddesses, angels, and mermaids;
mandalas; and
celtic designs.
In addition there are many ‘theme’ specific books available, featuring diverse subjects such as cars, steampunk designs, and Art Nouveau patterns.
What makes them very popular?
A Scottish illustrator named Johanna Basford published a jewish adult coloring books called Secret Garden in 2013, featuring pages of beautifully hand-illustrated ink drawings. The New York Times reported in March which a Korean pop star named Kim Ki-bum posted an image on Instagram of your ‘delicately colored-in floral pattern’ from Secret Garden. At the time, Ki-bum were built with a massive 1.8 million Instagram followers. The post went viral and helped to ignite the craze.
The growth in popularity of the books reportedly has much to do with adult relaxation and stress release. Many adults who use the books are convinced that they find the repetitive, low-stress nature of coloring straight into be soothing, relaxing, plus a strategy for de-stressing outside the pressures of life and work.
One of many other great things about adult coloring in magazines, they also claim to enjoy recapturing the nostalgia of childhood by starting a task usually available children. It takes people time for a less strenuous time, and may be also a way for moms and dads in order to connect and bond using children to take a seat into color together with them. Needless to say, many parents have been happily coloring in kids’ books for many years, however they’ve choices that are not limited by Dora the Explorer or SpongeBob SquarePants.
To conclude, coloring for adults seems to be a growing past-time which allows adults to relax and unplug through the stress within their lives, by starting a hands-on activity that involves minimal commitment and maximum nostalgia.
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