How to Draw Patterns: Easy and Fun Step-by-Step Guide for Unique Creations

A fun little book that teaches advanced coloring techniques with alcohol markers . Expands your coloring knowledge. Gave me ideas for coloring that gave more professional results without much extra effort. Lots of practice areas included along with clear, demonstrated instructions. Use with alcohol marker art , a white gel pen and a black fineliner pen.

This book is amazing! It’s packed with colorful examples, clear tips, and practical tricks that make learning patterns fun and approachable. The step-by-step guidance is exactly what I was hoping for, and it feels inspiring instead of intimidating. It’s fantastic for beginners, but also useful for anyone wanting to expand their creativity. I’ve already learned so much from it and can’t recommend it highly enough!

This is a great addition to my collection of Coco Wyo coloring books. It’s a how-to guide that helps you add extra flair to your coloring pages — from textures and patterns to shading techniques that make your art pop.It’s perfect for amateur coloring artists who want to level up their pages and start personalizing their work with more detail. A super helpful resource that makes coloring even more fun and creative!

Must-have for beginners dabbling in adult coloring! The quick, easy steps make it simple to elevate your technique and add more creativity to your projects. I’ve enjoyed it so much that I even ordered a second copy as a gift. Fun, approachable, and inspiring!

I am an enthusiastic newbie and I would say that art is not intuitive for me in the way it has been for other people. I recently started coloring and I think that the concept of a book like this is really helpful for people at this level. I've been using it for a few weeks now and I love that it built my confidence when I was able to replicate a design, but as the more complicated ones rolled out, the four-step format will often consolidate steps to the point that the pattern is very difficult to recreate on your own.If you're already a pretty strong doodler or artist, you'll be fine with the level of explanations. I haven't been so discouraged that I've put it down yet, so I wouldn't call the book unapproachable, but in the same way that confidence is built when you can learn a new trick, it's demoralizing to spend a ton of time trying to identify the micro-steps only to see that you're really struggling to get the technique down.In my opinion, the perfect supplement to this book would include:1. More detailed written explanations.2. For your beginners especially, more guides and tips for drawing out the patterns by hand--e.g., a practice space where you can trace a light grey or dotted line that guides you through mastering the brick/wood/stone texture, a guide that shows you where you would want to find/create your light source and add highlight or shadows (e.g., facets on a crystal), for your more, uhh, uncoordinated, beginners, I'd even appreciate practice to get the lines down drawing the bow, heart, fish, the perfect melty drip, etc. Basically, help my incompetent self with some of that muscle memory.3. Additional copies of each practice image so that you can try using a separate palette or practice a challenging effect more than once.4. A short guide with the colors used and their names. If you want to avoid using the brand names from a particular supplier, you could give a more general color name. I found that, as some other people noticed, if you didn't match colors, you could mess up the effect pretty quickly. It may take up a lot of space to include the suggested colors on the page, but an appendix would be pretty helpful for people who are getting started with color matching and blending.5. Practice space for blending and using the blender marker. The first time it encouraged me to use the blender marker was a bit tragic and it made it really hard to move on to the next step. Just like with suggestions 2 and 3, some space that allows you to get used to creating that soft glow effect with the blender marker would have been really helpful. For blending without the blender, I have a separate coloring practice book that gives these grey dotted lines lines that tell you about where you want to start blending. It gives a list of 3 colors to use and then in five steps, it walks you through blending a sunset sky. I found it pretty helpful and a strong contrast with this book's directions for the City Night that just tell you to blend a gradient before moving on to the next step.6. Lots of other people mention the inspo gallery at the end-- at first I thought that the idea was that you would slowly advance through the book and be able to use any given effect at the end. Some people have mentioned that this is better as a reference book, which I would agree with, although I do think that I really had to complete a lot of practice using this book and other resources before I was comfortable flipping to a particular page and just trying out a new pattern without feeling like I wasn't ready for it. I'm curious if I will develop a the eye for breaking down how to achieve a pattern without as much hand-holding as I go through, but for now, while they are inspiring, I'm still inclined to think that a bit that demystifies the new patterns.Overall, it's a great resource and I think that it's definitely worth having even if you are a total beginner. You can get a lot of what you need on your own using the current guide with any of the many online tutorials, communities, and additional coloring workbooks available, so I have found that to also help. Right now, I'd hesitate to give it a full five stars because, personally, I like written instructions I don't always have a screen available, so a more fleshed out book would have just worked better. No one book is going to do it all, but this is a good one to get you started.

I got this book to go along with my new obsession with coloring using alcohol markers, and it’s been such a fun addition. The patterns are simple yet creative, and they give me great practice with blending, shading, and trying out different color combos. The illustrations are adorable, and the step-by-step style makes it easy to follow without feeling overwhelming. It’s playful, inspiring, and just what I needed to add more variety to my coloring pages.

lots of cute patterns to try and step by step instructions. easy to follow and can be used as a reference when you’re done!

Bought this for my daughter. The instructions are clear and easy to follow, with varied practices and increasing difficulty as you go through the book. None of it was very difficult, though.