Supernatural: The Official Coloring Book

My husband and I really enjoy watching “Supernatural” so when I saw this coloring book, I pre-ordered it immediately. The designs in the book are lots of fun and bring back a lot of memories of the previous seasons and some iconic scenes. Sam and Dean Winchester are the main focus of the coloring book but lots of the other characters (including Castiel and Crowley) are included as well. The drawings are well done and, for the most part, look very realistic. There are a few pages of wallpaper style designs (repeated patterns) but not too many. There are also designs of items that are symbolic to the show. I wish that a better grade of paper had been used and that less pictures spread across two pages. The two page spreads make it difficult to color into the binding to finish the design. The paper is ivory but is thin enough that, in some cases, the heavy black lines from the design on the back of the page shows through. This could have been solved by a better grade of paper or lighter lines versus heavy black ones. I would detract a half star for these issues but as I can't do that on Amazon, I round up and thus give this a 5 star instead of a 4.5. This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring medium. I will include, in the comments section below, a list of the coloring medium I use for testing and for most of my coloring projects. 78 pages of designs inspired by the “Supernatural” television series plus 16 pages of color photo pages. These photo pages are of some of the designs included in the book. Designs are printed on both sides of the page Paper is thin, ivory, slightly rough (good tooth for colored pencils) and non-perforated Glue binding Designs merge into the binding area Many designs spread across two pages The coloring book is difficult to open to a flat position and coloring into the binding area will be difficult as well Alcohol-based markers bleed through the paper quickly. I don't recommend these as they bleed through and ruin the design on the back of the page. Water-based markers can show the slightest of shadows on the back of the page depending on the color used and how heavily you apply it. Gel pens and India ink pens left shadows on the back of the page. Colored pencils did the best with this paper. This is the medium I will use to color in the book. I tested oil and wax-based pencils and got good results with both. I was able to get good pigment with light application and deeper pigment with multiple layers. I also was able to layer multiple colors well and blend easily using a blending stick.

Awesome images to color. Quality paper. Have fun times whilst coloring your favorite Winchester Bros!

This was on my daughter's wishlist for Christmas she is the biggest supernatural fan I had to get it for her this product didn't disappoint at all she was surprised how sturdy the coloring book

Love love love SPN and this coloring book is the best! It even has pages in the back of pictures from the show!! I love it

Great! 👍

For the binding, the book is glued together and the pages are not perforated. You can use an x-acto knife to cut the pages out or very carefully pull the pages apart if you want to remove the pages from the book to color. Unfortunately there are pictures on the front and back of each page, so using markers or pens that tend to bleed through are not recommended for this book. If you really want to use something that bleeds through, you can prime the page using Clear Gesso. It takes extra time, even more if you want to make your own Gesso, but it usually does a good job. Many of the illustrations are pulled directly from scenes from the show. They’re dynamic, full of action, and the characters look like their counterparts from the show. There’re still filler pages that are a bit nostalgic because of the show, but not all that fun when it comes to coloring. Full pages are covered with signs from different roadside motels the boys stayed in, but it leaves a lot of blank space and I would have rather had the blank back page. One feature that this book has that I haven’t seen in others is the full color reference pictures in the back of the book. It’s kind of like a mini photo gallery of the scenes used for the coloring book for those who want to get the pictures colors right (no Googling here!), or just stare at Misha for awhile.

I love love love this coloring book. Great addition for any Supernatural fan, The details are great and still easy to find time to color. I love the thickness of the paper that if i wanted i could use marker or water color on it without bleed through.

This is such a cute product and it made a great gift!