If you’re looking for a way to unwind and destress after a long day, adult coloring books are a great option. With their intricate patterns and designs, these books offer a creative outlet that can help calm your mind and ease your worries. So the next time you’re feeling overwhelmed, try picking up an adult coloring book and see how it can help you relax and unwind.
If you decide to look for an adult coloring book, ensure the book has good quality papers. That will prevent the pages from bleeding and altering the colorings. You could also consider unique patterns before purchasing the book. This article looks at 30 coloring books you can consider playing with.
1. A Girl & Her Plants
This fantastic book is perfect for plant enthusiasts. Remember that when looking for a coloring book, it is vital to look at what you love most. What is your passion? You can then a coloring plant in that field.
Plant enthusiasts will enjoy this book since it has 44 hip gardening illustrations of diverse plants. The book was created by Sagekind and featured 22 fascinating pages. Every page in this book showcases alluring plant moms and their plant babies. Throughout the book, you will also come across different plant care tips to help you become a better plant individual.
2. Cindy Elsharouni Coloring Book
Cindy Elsharouni is among the top-selling adult coloring books. The book promotes creativity and relaxation with the wild animals and fine lines drawings. Make sure you use fine-point markers or colored pencils that do not bleed to color the pages. That is because its paper is thin.
Inside the book, you will encounter intricate plant and animal life designs. These may include horses, a raccoon, owls, flowers, and a wolf. The book also has mandalas and paisleys that allow stress relief when coloring. The book has 64 diverse pages to relieve stress; all pages are one-sided to reduce bleeding.
3. 100 Amazing Patterns
The Amazing Patterns book comprises over 100 complex patterns. It is an adult coloring book with various mind-bending kaleidoscopic images and geometric shapes for adults to get creative.
The fantastic book has over 10,000 five-star ratings on several platforms, including Amazon. Most reviewers agree that the book has the perfect quality paper that works well with pencil and pen.
4. Thomas Kinkade Disney Dreams Collection
This adult coloring book is ideal for beginners. It contains beginner-friendly designs and Disney characters. Some characters you can find in the book include Fantasia, The Little Mermaid, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan, among others.
This coloring book has thicker pages meaning you can color with various instruments, including colored pencils, gel pens, and Tombow markers.
5. Luna Coloring Book for Adults
Luna is ideal for individuals that are carefree and whimsical. The Maria Trolle book provides relaxation and stress relief. Every page in this book showcases the magical world of flowers, fairies, and woodlands.
The book has double-sided pages meaning you can use colored pencils to avoid bleeding. Luna also has intricate pages and a black background for artists to unleash their creative side.
6. Stress Relief Coloring Book for Adults
With this book, you can celebrate and appreciate your love for nature and art. The book consists of 35 soothing images and a 4.5-star rating on Amazon. Color this fantastic book and relax your mind thanks to the full-page images of botanicals, gardens, and other phenomenal natural landscapes.
7. Secret Worlds
This remarkable book by Karen Sue Chen will quickly spark your imagination. In the secret worlds, you will encounter adorable critters and tiny habitats. The book orchestrates 38 original artworks. Reviewers highly rate the Secret Worlds book, as some describe it as “pure magic.”
The pages are high quality and thick, meaning you can work with lots of pencils and pens. It is a book you will love and bring out your best in terms of creativity.
8. The Anatomy Coloring Book
This adult coloring book has more than 8,000 five-star ratings and has remained relevant for the past 35 years. It contains 162 pages of drawn figures of the human body. This remarkable book will help you remember the various parts of the body and help you relax your mind.
9. 50 Shades of Bullsht
Being naughty at times can help clear your mind. This fantastic book has gathered over 11,000 five-star reviews on the central e-commerce platform Amazon. It is a humorous adult coloring book that will help you calm down and forget about your stress. Most users say that it feels incredible coloring the swearing words. It also helps reduce anger.
10. The Anatomy Coloring Book
This charming book has more than 8,000 five-star ratings and has been relevant for so long. It is the ideal gift, especially for a student in med school. The anatomy coloring book comes with 162 pages of hand-drawn figurines of the human body. Every page has a different body part that explains what it is and its function in the body. With this coloring book, you will know almost every aspect of the body and still relieve stress.
11. Beauty in the Bible
It is the perfect adult coloring book if you are a staunch Christian. Inside this charming book, you will encounter encouraging Bible verses, inspirational scriptures, and other alluring designs to color. Beauty in the Bible also has thick papers that one can remove from the book. You can also frame some inspirational scriptures and hang them up in your home after coloring them.
12. Ocean Treasures Color & Frame
If you fancy the beach scenes and turquoise waters of the ocean, this is the right adult coloring book for you. The book has sensational sea art drawn on its 64 pages. If you feel you will never make it to the beach next summer, get this book and color your way to the beach. It comes with whimsical designs that can help calm down your mind.
Reviewers also note that the pages respond perfectly to markers and appreciate how detailed yet simple they are.
13. Free to Be Me
Get inspired with this adult coloring book created for Black women and girls. The book will help you forget about stress from the 58 pages of pictures, quotes, and affirmations. All these art pieces in the book are made to invoke positive thinking, self-love, and reflection in the user. You can choose any of the five alluring covers with diverse Black hairstyles.
14. Irrelevant Adult Coloring Book
This adult coloring book has one of the highest-quality paper pages. With over 21 patterns available, you can color many things here. It is another humorous adult coloring book with numerous curse words to color.
If you appreciate coloring curse words to help release your stress, this is the book to look for. Every page in this book is just one-sided. That means you can color without worrying about bleeding through.
Even though many coloring books come with clean content, this book displays humorous animals, paisley designs, and fun fairy images. You will also come across numerous curse words to color and make you feel better.
you have family members or friends, this is the ideal gift to get them. This book has several intricate designs, including animal drawings and fairies. However, you should notice that this book is not for your kids.
15. Secret Garden
The secret garden by Johanna Basford, the coloring book is among the most brilliant adult coloring books you will come across. This book is ideal for relaxing while it is also meditative. The book contains impressive art of flowers, paisley designs, and animals that take your imagination to another level.
With the intricate designs found in this book, you will quickly forget all about your stress. The book comes with thick pages meaning you can use markers even with alcohol brands, and they will not bleed to other pages. However, please refrain from using watercolor markers since their paper does not hold water perfectly.
Even though the pages of the Secret Garden book are not one-sided, they still offer the user an engaging experience, especially for beginners. One of the advantages of this book is that it comes with numerous detailed pictures. Another advantage is that you can find coloring tutorials on YouTube if you cannot color perfectly on your own. According to reviewers, this book offers stress relief to most of its users.
16. 100 Animals Adult Coloring Book
If you are an avid animal lover, this book is for you. With over 100 animals to color, you can play with many options. The book has exclusive designs and animal drawings, from simple to advanced and detailed.
It is ideal for the whole family since anyone can color what they want in the book. The book can also be a perfect gift for a friend or a family member that is an avid animal lover. These impressive designs are printed on one side of the page to prevent bleeding. You can still pluck pages from the book even though its pages are not perforated.
17. Positive Vibes
This adult coloring book is perfect for beginners and people struggling with eyesight. Positive vibes are the ultimate stress relief. The fascinating book has 114 pages filled with easy-to-see designs and exquisite patterns. The best part about this book is that it is very simple to color, thanks to the large prints.
Positive vibes are also ideal for the entire family since everyone can easily color what they like in the book, regardless of age. The book contains positive quotes that help your mind focus on hope and gratitude. It will help reduce negative feelings as well as reduce stress levels.
18. Fantastic Structures
If your love impressive architectural designs, this is the adult coloring book to look for. Let your mind take an excellent tour of the iconic structures as you color them. Steve McDonald creates exemplary pages of favorite designs worldwide for adults to color.
These structures have sensational designs to keep you occupied and help you forget stress. You will have fifty-four coloring images to play with on both sides of the pages. However, that means you should avoid any alcohol-based markers. These markers will make the ink bleed through and affect the image on the other side of the page.
19. 100 Countryside Scenes
Do you love the countryside? Do you love the sheer thinking of rustic cottages and vast pieces of grasslands? If this is you, get yourself the 100 countryside scenes adult coloring book. The book encompasses rustic cabins, farmyards, the English countryside, and meadows. You will come across 100 hand-drawn designs to choose from.
Every image in this book is drawn only on one side of the page. That will prevent alcohol-based pens, watercolors, and markers from bleeding. Even though some designs may appear more complicated than others, you will easily find an image that works perfectly for you. The book is ideal for both beginners and advanced drawers.
20. Tropical World
It is an adventure coloring book for adults to help reduce stress levels. Check out the tropical world if you want a unique and beautiful artistry book. The book is ideal for both intermediate and expert-level artists. This book is among the top-selling coloring books thanks to its intricate designs.
Pages showcase animals and tropical foliage, giving users a creative space to color. However, you should note that the pages are printed on both sides, so you should use colored pencils only to avoid bleeding on the other page. With this book, you can create patterns because of the wide-set outlines.
21. Butts, Bleps, and Beans Cat Coloring
This book is for cat lovers. If you fall in love once you encounter a cat, this book will reduce your stress level. The book has several five-star ratings on Amazon. There are 35 pieces of art in the book for you to play with.
These drawings are detailed and contain impressive cat drawings. The book has thick pages meaning you do not have to worry about bleeding through. You can choose on the images to color, whether the beans where the cat exposes adorable paw pads or the bleps where the cats show a bit of tongue.
22. Fantastic Cities
It is another excellent adult coloring book for lovers of cityscapes. This book will help reduce stress as you color and think about your dream city destination. The drawings will inspire you and help you add new cities to your bucket list that you would want to visit.
The inspiring book features impressive aerial views of cities worldwide, including architectural mandalas. The artistic work covers global locales such as Tokyo, Istanbul, Paris, London, Amsterdam, and Melbourne, among many other major cities.
23. Calm Down
When working through boredom and sadness, the best thing you can do to boost your spirit is yoga. Yoga promotes your mental health and helps reduce stress. If you cannot do the yoga where you are, you can at least get a yoga-themed book to color. This adult coloring book will help spark positivity, creativity, and a sense of calmness.
24. Mid-Century Retro Designs
Do you fancy the ancient home designs of the 1960s and 1950s? If this is you, this adult coloring book is for you. Mid-century designs by Robin Pickens feature 32 charming illustrations of mid-century home goods.
With this book, you will come across diverse coloring, clean lines, and impressive Mad Men-style decor. The book has received many five-star ratings on Etsy, meaning most users love it. Hidden in every design are unique symbols and little icons you are supposed to find. Finding these symbols is a lot of fun and helps reduce stress.
This book teaches you how to color the same drawing differently to create a masterpiece. That is because it comes with full-color examples to inspire you.
25. The Beauty of Horror
This adult coloring book is ideal for horror lovers. It is a creepy coloring book with lots of mysterious drawings. If you fancy zombies, severed heads, and murderous clowns, this is the book to look for. Coloring the book will help reduce stress levels thanks to the detailed pictures on its pages.
Its paper quality is thick and easy to use. Make sure you use pens or nice sharp pencils to color the books. Color some of the most thrilling zombie apocalypse scenes, burial grounds, and torture chambers. The book offers horror lovers a chance to get creative in the blood-soaked world.
26. Tattoo Coloring Book
The tattoo coloring book is the ideal adult coloring book for tattoo lovers and artists. If you love playing with ink, this is the perfect book to help you relax and calm down your mind. Whether you are coloring a contemporary or traditional tattoo design, this book will inspire you to draw your next tattoo.
You will see tattoos from hearts, sailors, motifs, girls, skulls, roses, and contemporary art pieces. This book will reduce stress and is also the perfect gift for a tattoo artist or lover.
27. The Tarot Coloring Book
This adult coloring book is for tarot card lovers. The book will allow you to work on tarot cards and make them appear as you want via coloring. Every image depicts various tarot motifs and symbols that will brighten your day as you color them.
The best part is that the tarots also come with descriptions. That means as you color; you will also learn more about them. You can check out different YouTube videos for more inspiration on color tarots.
28. Vogue Fashion
Vogue fashion is the best adult coloring book for retro fashion lovers. The book has numerous illustrations from the 1950s era to play with. Adults will enjoy making masterpieces of fashion designs of the ancient period. The book has 66 pages of retro fashion images, so you have many choices.
The pages of this book are thick and printed only on one side to ensure the paint does not bleed through. The book will help you calm down and reduce stress on a lazy sunny afternoon. Some images may be repeated, allowing you to try something different on the same idea.
29. Relaxation
It is another brilliant adult coloring book for adults. The book is fun and beautiful, especially for women. Women and men can take advantage of this book as it has high-quality pages with high-resolution hand designs. Its pages are single-sided, meaning they cannot bleed to the other side.
Inside the book, you will find numerous floral animals, gardens, and flowers to color and reduce stress levels. The art designs also contain unique leaf patterns and garden designs for outdoor lovers. If you love floral arrangements, this is the book to look for.
30. Color Your Own Famous American Paintings
It is an adult coloring book with line drawings of about 30 masterpieces. Colorists can add their hues to these famous paintings. Here you will find Edward Hopper’s Hotel Room, Edward Hicks, Grandma Moses, Childe Hassam, Albert Bierstadt, and Mary Cassatt’s Mother and Child.
The book showcases some of the masterpieces from the Italian Renaissance to the Impressionist movement. These masterpieces are printed on one side of the pages. That means you can pluck the pages and hang them in your home or somewhere else after creating the masterpiece. The best part about this book is that it has the original paintings of these masterpieces. You can reference them as you try to create your own.
Take Away
Adult coloring books are great if you want to color your passion and reduce stress. Make sure you get an adult coloring book that covers your topic of interest. Get a coloring book on what you love, whether you are a fashion, cat, nature, horror, or garden lover. It makes the experience wonderful since this is something you already love.
Take charge of your life now and bring yourself the happiness you deserve. Most of these books will have inspirations where you can learn how to color what you love perfectly. Make good use of these books and live a stress-free life full of joy and great vibes.
