Let Zendoodle Calm You

Everyone is familiar with the newest trend of adult coloring books, and while this newest trend has yet to lose its trending status, you might be overwhelmed with the number of books available to you. For something that is supposed to calm you and relieve stress, choosing which book you want to purchase might actually cause you more stress. The thing to do, might be to take this trend in a different direction, you could get the same results with a fun new twist on coloring! Zendoodle Calm by Felicity French and Lauren Farnsworth will still relax you and help you de-stress after a hard day like the ordinary adult coloring books do, but this book also feeds your artist soul. Well, it will if you have one.

Zendoodle Calm takes those coloring books a bit further, instead of filling the spaces with color, you fill them with doodles. What exactly are doodles? What does "doodling" even mean? Doodles, also known as "tangling", are simple repeating patterns and drawings that are used to fill different areas of an image. Your doodles can have meaning but don't necessarily have to, just draw random patterns, whatever comes to mind! I found this books a lot more relaxing than other coloring books, and I've tried my fair share (I have over 12 different ones at home.) Some of the time I actually get more stressed out because I want the colors to be perfect or don't want to accidentally stray outside of the lines, and sometimes the pictures are so detailed they take such a long time. This book didn't have that effect one me, at least so far, and I finished three of the images. The book is set up in a "color-by-number" way, but you certainly don't have to follow their patterns, you can use your own ideas to fill those spaces... 

 

 

I actually messed up on one of my pictures and filled in a space with the wrong pattern, I just switched the pattern  for one of the numbers I hadn't gotten to yet and no one (but you and I) will be the wiser. On another of my images, I used a different color for each pattern and ended up with an adorable patchwork quilt kind of effect. You can really make this book your own, which was a very refreshing feeling for a book that's meant to calm you. I feel like this actually does.

Zendoodle Calm is filled with images of animals, flowers, landscapes, and mandalas. All images that will calm and soothe you while you fill the spaces with doodles. Follow their guide on the side of the page, or let the image inspire you and create your own image and flow. This is, in my opinion, the book that any and every stress "doodler" need in their calming arsenal.

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