Are you a coloring addict that wish to one day create your coloring sheets like the beautiful ones you color all the time? If so, I guess I can confirm that you are going to love reading further on coloring page designing, my fellow color lovers. In this 7 steps will unveil your creativity and hand made coloring books taken to a whole new level.
Are you a pro artist or an amateur colorer looking to jumpstart your coloring skills, this article will give you all the tools you need to transform your thoughts into physical colourful works of art. Let us jump in then, grab a sketchpad and sharp the pencils.
Understand Your Target Audience:
Your target audience is the first step in making a coloring page work out rightThe audience i.e. age, interest and skill level, will all drive the overall style, complexity and content of your design.
Are you making coloring pages for little kids, adult die hard enthusiasts or something in between as far your creations are concern. In this case knowing who your target end user is, will help you create palliatives that caters and embraces them to an extent, your coloring sheets will be seen and loved at its best by those readers you intended it for.
Brainstorm and Sketch Your Ideas:
You are now ready to start brainstorming and sketch your coloring page idea targeting your target group. This exploratory phase is where everything great happens so get your creative brain to the grind-house and have fun.
Try varying themes, patterns and shapes, and discover random keys of inspirations from nature/geography/motivational quotes/your own experience etc. Even in its sketch form, making your ideas will lead to a better conceptual design and presentable final product that looks visually brilliant uncompromised.
Establish a Balanced Composition:
Keep a keen eye on the layout of your coloring page design as you further develop and improve. Use your jittery best to create a well laid-out page that directs the viewer’s eye around and through that piece, with a prominent focus and consistent negative space.
Think about where your major pieces are, what paths the lines and shapes take, the cadence of patterns and textures. The composition, a well executed one will not only make your coloring page looks good but also deliver colored user through subtle structure and visual appeal.
Include Minute Detailing and Patterns:
If you want a great coloring page, be sure the page you select has those cool patterns and lots of detail. Those Not only adds more aesthetics to your design, but also makes the coloring experience for your better and more gratifying experience you give them.
Play around with different patterns, textures and small patterned elements like florals, mandalas or geometric shapes. It is essential that these details are scattered all over the page and give it a multi-dimensional quality which will keep your expertise repeating colors over and over.
Select Complementary Color Scheme
Your Color Palette (for your coloring page design) plays an incredibly important role in soaking majority of the overall mood, ambience & emotional impact of your creation.
Be it a bright, loud color scheme or a subdued earthy pallet you seek the goal should always be about linking and blending perfectly through your design.
Think about the psychological and symbolic meanings of colors, as these can trigger certain emotions in your audience. Using your subtle color scheme decisions to better not only the aesthetic of your page but the storytelling in your coloring design.
Refine and Refine your Design:
You are now in the final few stages of your coloring page design, time to refine and sharpen up your own work. Reexamine your work closely, the particular inclusions or eradication from some line quality, proportions which will add a overall balance and harmony with it as it is designed.
Don’t be too precious itsy bitsy – coloring page you have to alter and refine — the iterations process is crucial to appropriately craft a refined, expected coloring page. Get feedback from loyal craftsman and take from positive criticism on what you could improve about your design to further elevate it
Finalize and Ready for Print
Now, You have designed and polished your coloring page, we conclude the process and we’re going to create your final creation ready for it to be a published. This could include, tasks like scanning or digitizing of your original, changing the file type and resolution, and doing everything you have to get the design ready for print or digital.
As you wrap up your coloring page think of other features to include such as borders, titles or instructions that will make the experience more holistic for the user. Also, keep in mind legal/ copyright issues when sharing your creation on the world.
Conclusion
Coloring pages should be a fun and fulfilling creative endeavor No more, no less. This, in following the 7 clever processes provided above should be sufficient for you to embark on your way to unleash the super powers of your mind and make beautiful coloring masterpieces for your audience.
Remember that the most important part, of all the coloring page design is understanding your niche (read the thought print), getting into the creative flow and being quite attentive to the details. Well, my fellow colorists? Pick up your sketchpad, sharpen those pencils and get to work – The world needs coloring ‘!
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