Ooooo! This is amazing. I need to break out my pastels.

Do I hoof to?

I would agree. I think you could make a fantastic coloring book. Perhaps a Kickstarter would be an idea? The funds gathered pay for the printing, and the funders get a coloring book when it funds.

The problem with adult colouring books is that filling in mandalas isn't relaxing to me. Adult colouring books are far too detailed and cluttered, while children's colouring books are too simple.

I think you've nailed a perfect balance here.

You should! I took about 8 years of line art and made a coloring book from it using The Book Patch and CreateSpace earlier this year, and my commissioners were happy to have their pieces included. Even with purchasing an ISBN and ordering a dozen or so copies to take to cons, it's turned a small but tidy profit. I get a few bucks in royalties from Amazon each month, and I took 6 coloring books to MFF and sold all of them by Saturday, and your art is WAY shinier than mine. =) My books are 8x10 and about 80 pages long, and they retail for $13.99. Usually I get $6-$8 in royalties per book after Amazon takes their cut, depending on where the sale was. Ordering print copies to sell directly costs me about $2.50 per book, so even when I discount them to $10 for conventions, I still make about the same royalty.

The nice thing about print on demand services like The Book Patch and CreateSpace are your upfront costs are very low, particularly if you can do your own cover art and interior layout. CreateSpace lets you assign an ISBN for free and sell directly on Amazon.com, too. I bought my ISBN for about $50 from The Book Patch and was able to port it to CreateSpace, so that's an option, too. Even after the ISBN, proof copy costs, and ordering books to sell, I'm still making a profit off it, so I see no reason why you wouldn't too!

See, I have like, zero knowledge of where to even start on making the books, I've never done any large-scale printing with my work. x.x My problem right now is just the lack of time to even create images for coloring, nevermind getting it printed when they're all ready. Kinda why I was thinking if commissioners would be okay with me using their lineart, I'd get a stock built up a lot faster. My linework is always super clean and its not a big deal for me to scan it before I go on to the coloring stage. I'd have a ton of work saved up in like a month. lol

If you don't mind, might I poke you for some help getting set up with the same stuff you've got yours on? It sounds like a pretty good deal and I'd like to do something more professional with mine vs. just making copies at OfficeMax. lol Not right away of course, but once I've got a decent body of work saved up for it. >u>

Sure! Feel free to poke away. Honestly, layout for a coloring book is mostly dropping images into a word file and exporting it as a PDF when you're done. It's WAY simpler than it sounds and the printing service takes care of everything from there. I put mine together in a weekend once I had my images sorted out, and I'd never made a book before, either.

You wouldn't have to make a book. You could always just sell it as a digital download pack.

Oh wow this is really cute! thank you so much!

>breaks out colored pencils!< Whoo time to scribble color like a kid....I mean I'll let my kids color this.>>

Yes. Thanks.. I was looking for things like this.

Cooool!!

OMG Thank you for doing this all for us <3

Thank you for the gift. If you had a PS3 with an account, I get you a $20 PS Card for a gift this year, cause your an amazing artist & awesome!

Thank you so much for the line art. It gave me something to do for my down time after work.<3 Merry Christmas!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/186.....che=1450995005

ooooh yes this is gonna be fun <3 Thank you for the awesome art to color in!