Coloring books made their name as an easily relaxing, fun and creative way to wind down after a hectic day. Colouring books on market is abundant, Crafting your personalized one-edition coloring book can be a bit of unique and rewarding side project.
You can easily make a coloring book that contains anything you want to color [the real challenge here is if you wanted to color your house in depth or make a dream home from scratch].
Step 1: Choose Your Subject
The first thing you have to do in creating your personalized coloring book is to pick the subject. You do not have to picture coloring a cleanly version of your own residence all stuffed with all the extremely little details that makes it magnetic to do for you;
Do you like to paint some ideal dream home, your own place exactly the manner in which that you simply wish that this is certainly? It is yours!
Step 2: Collect References
After you chose your subject, gather reference images. If it is a portrait of your house, take some pictures of both the outdoors and indoors.
Details: type of your orcas windows, roof shape, front door color
Want to Draw Your Dream Home? Think about the styles of architecture and interior design you love most along side landscape elements that make you happy. Look at magazines and websites and pins, inspired by the images you want to include in your dream home.
Step 3: Sketch Your Design
Alright now it’s time to start sketching your design. As you are coloring your own house, go through and make a rough template of the exterior, interior of your home with little details you can find on referenced images.
For a dream home, just draw some initial thoughts for your living space with what you have sketched from the reference images. Hand Draw the sketch, don’t go for perfection just draw basic outline of what your design would look like
Step 4 : Refine Your Sketch
Turn your sketch into a design once you got a rough idea
With a sketch in the rough, it’s time to perfect your blueprint. You will now be able to accentuate unique elements of your home: the small trim around your windows, your garden flowers and furniture in the living room.
Take the pool, the home theatre, spacious deck features you want on your dream home. Incorporate these elements into your design and remember to include all the smaller details that your dream home of convenience would have.
Step 5: Scan/Photocopy Your Design
Once you got your masterpiece sketch as a last touche, now open your settings and scan or photocopy the snap. You will get clean image so for doing your coloring book from it. Do not have scan or photocopy option of your design, take best quality photo (high res) of your sketch and save it in a digital image.
Step 6: Format Your Coloring Pages
Get your pencil (or whatever type of software will allow you to place it) and your image to format our coloring book pages. If you’re good with designs, you can easily make your own coloring page within Adobe illustrator or InDesign. Otherwise, if you are not good at making colors maybe a print-on-demand, such as Lulu or Blurb will help you to build your coloring book.
Use these services to do all the work of formatting and printing the book for you and you can simply upload your image..
Step7: Print and bind your coloring book
Finally, once your coloring book pages are all laid out, it’s time to print and bind your book. For print-on-demand services, you just make an order and let your book come to you. If you want to print dedicated, then you have to choose a quality printer which will definitely be costly but would give you great results.
For your pages, think thicker & better quality paper — easier to colour and your book will last MORE than thin standard copier lined stuff.
Now, finally time to bind your book
If you employ a print-on-demand company, your book will be bound already. If you are going to print your book by yourself maybe using a machine you have or carefully send it for perissionibus binding At professional. Spiral or Saddle-stitch binding, or any other bookbinding style will make the book look good and your pages will not fall out.
Step 8: Coloring!
Now you have your custom coloring book, go ahead and get coloring! Colored pencils, markers or gel pens you love and bring your design to life. Colour away and enjoy the ease of pulling your muscles; color on those pages. It really gives you an experience that other activities and materials cant, coloring your own place or dream home… you will be blown away at how powerful it feels to complete a coloring book!
Conclusion
One of the most fun (and artistic way!) to unleash your inner artist is creating personalized coloring books, which also helps in letting go of stress at the same time. Creating your own coloring book, whether you are coloring something of your home or your dream house from scratch is unique and a delight to make.
So why not collect your stuff, settle on the topic and get cracking today? Happy coloring!
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