Awesome Coloring Books

Artist Kendra Norton’s unique coloring book has no outlines for you to color in. Instead, it’s filled with abstract blobs of color, and you draw the lines. Whether you doodle dinosaurs, flowers, buildings, or goldfish, go where your imagination takes you. In addition to the original, there are also Through the Seasons and Mindful Journeys editions.

Tired of endless conference calls that could have been emails? Turn off your camera, go on mute, and break out the Pointless Meetings Coloring and Activity Book. Corporate Snark’s 85-page book is filled with corporate-themed word scrambles, mazes, buzzword bingo, and goofy characters to color. Available in paperback or spiral-bound. (Thanks, Harriet!)

The hardcover book is filled with 100 Star Wars illustrations for you to embellish with crayons, colored pencils, or markers. The images include fanciful scenes inspired by classic movie moments, along with mandalas and other repeating Star Wars patterns to color in.

Have you joined the adult coloring book cult yet? Steven Rhodes’ wickedly funny drawings will have you reaching for your crayons to color kid-unfriendly parodies such as Death Metal Sing-Along, Alien Abduction Club, and Here Comes the Apocalypse, plus warped activities like occult career selector paper dolls.

New York Times bestselling illustrator Kerby Rosanes presents another captivating and imaginative coloring book. Mythic World features over 55 mythical and legendary creatures set against some of the world’s most evocative landscapes and locations. The book is available in both paperback and spiral-bound editions.

In addition to making colored pencils and paints, art supply company Arteza makes a variety of great coloring books, each featuring intricate, imaginative, and fanciful designs. They come in 6.4 x 6.4″ and 9 x 9″ sizes, with heavyweight tear-out pages suitable for framing your artistic creations.

A fantastic Japanese import for fans of monster movies, this oversize 96-page coloring book is loaded with Yuji Kaida’s line art illustrations of classic monsters and creatures, including Godzilla, Gamera, Ultraman, and more. The book also includes small color images of the original paintings for reference.

Looking for a real challenge? Look no further than illustrator Tim Jeffs‘ coloring books, each of which includes highly-detailed greyscale animal images, with lots of tight spaces for you to embellish. Each book has 25 images, printed on high quality paper and a lay-flat binding. Jeffs also offers coloring lessons in his Etsy shop.

Philippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes presents a wonderful adult coloring book, packed with images of creatures intertwined with fantastical settings. The 96-page paperback offers weeks and weeks of coloring challenge with its intricately-detailed imagery.

Musician and illustrator Alan Robert created this awesomely-creepy series of adult coloring books, each one packed with ghoulish, gory, and nightmare-inducing images for you to fill in with your favorite colors. You’d better stock up on those blood red pencils.

Artist Kerby Rosanes‘ coloring books are loaded with intricate illustrations of fantasy worlds, combining coloring with a hide-and-seek challenge. The series includes Animorphia, Imagimorphia, Fantomorphia, Geomorphia, and our fave, Mythomorphia, loaded with dragons, griffins, and other mythical creatures.

We never really thought of the Alien movies as being colorful, but now you can bring some brightness into their dreary world with this Alien coloring book. Its 80 pages are filled with terrifying and gruesome scenes of xenomorphs in their various stages, along with favorite characters like Ripley and the Nostromo’s cat, Jonesy.

Want a real coloring challenge? Grab this book which features 35 amazing full-color images captured by NASA, side-by-side with coloring outlines based on the photos. Add a set of two-tone space colored pencils and you’ve got a great gift for any astronomy fan.

Sunlife Drawing’s unique coloring books offer a different kind of relaxation for your mind. Rather than traditional illustrations to color in, each page is filled with black and white lineart which result in halftones line and dot patterns when filled in.

Blending the appeal of a coloring book and a paint by numbers set, but without the mess, Paint by Sticker books are offered for both adults and kids, with images inspired by classic works of art, famous musicians, travel posters, animals, and more.

This adult coloring book is the perfect gift for anyone who enjoys a little wacky weed, or just digs psychedelia. Illustrated by Edwina Mc namee, the book features 25 wild and weird images that are perfect for your most colorful scribbles just staring at. Though they might stare back at you.