ARTEZA Adult Coloring Books, Doodle & Animal Designs, Pack of 2, 72 Sheets Each, 6.4×6.4 Inches Coloring Pages, 100 lb Paper

As a disclaimer, this picture is literally my first time ever coloring in an adult coloring book. I make my own art and have never considered coloring books before, but I just decided to give it a go, and I bought these books.I’m brand new to adult coloring books but I’m not new to coloring, as it were. I’ve been using pens and colored pencils and all manner of art mediums for years, so I don’t think my struggle with the fine details in this book were user error or a lack of experience with the materials. They are just incredibly tiny details, and it’s very hard to get even cheap oil-based colored pencils sharp enough to fit into the spaces. I had planned to do markers over pencils (Polychromos and Luminance pencils and Staedtler multi-ink brush pens). I started with the pencils but I ended up abandoning them. I just used the brush pens and added a little bit of white gel pen (Stabilo) at the end to bring back some highlights.I like how my picture turned out, so I can’t complain. The pictures are fun. It’s nice that they are single-sided, and my ink did not bleed through or absorb too quickly (the ink is permanent when dry but I was able to blend with my fingers and even the pens themselves). I’m very used to thick, highly-absorbent watercolor paper, so I expected this very thin paper would struggle to accept many layers and would bleed through. I was pleasantly surprised with how it stood up. As long as I let the ink dry first I was able to add quite a few layers without it getting muddy or damaging the paper. I went back over my layers with the blue green for the water several times and it took each one. Impressive.Mainly I just think a book this size should probably not have such intricate details, and I didn’t really grasp how that would be in actual practice when looking at the images online. If your vision isn’t the best or if your hands are not super steady you might not enjoy these pages.