Colouring books for adults - WTF?

[FredClogs]

I love colouring in with the kids, it's incredibly relaxing, I'd like to be able to draw but I can't.

[crofty1984]

What's wrong with wking?

[Blue Cat]

These colouring books are there ones with "adult" pictures because that could be interesting

[crmcatee]

Blue Cat said:

These colouring books are there ones with "adult" pictures because that could be interesting

Wouldn't the choice of colour be a tad limited in those ? All pink.

[Halmyre]

crofty1984 said:

What's wrong with wking?

It's difficult keeping it between the lines.

[Blue Cat]

crmcatee said:

Blue Cat said:

These colouring books are there ones with "adult" pictures because that could be interesting

Wouldn't the choice of colour be a tad limited in those ? All pink.

Not if you were being multi-cultural, could be black, brown, yellow or even Star Trek alien green

[R8VXF]

crmcatee said:

Wouldn't the choice of colour be a tad limited in those ? All pink.

Racist!

[Pickled]

FredClogs said:

I love colouring in with the kids, it's incredibly relaxing, I'd like to be able to draw but I can't.

To quote Gene from Layer Cake

Gene said:

Meditation is concentrating the front

of the mind with a mundane task...


...so the rest of the mind can find

peace.

[Eric Mc]

Plastic model kits for me. Just as pointless but just as pleasurable.

[Foppo]

They can be relaxing for some people nothing wrong with a colouring book.

[acf8181]

Other half has a couple, finds it therapeutic....just like i find running my hands through rock climbing chalk to be...each to their own!

[boyse7en]

Pickled said:

Esseesse said:

JuniorD said:

I haven't done any "colouring in" (as we call it in our neck of the woods) in hmmm, about 35 years, but I don't like seeing colouring in done with felt tip pens as I like a nice homogeneous colour fill and not the thatch roof type effect

You need some magic markers and proper marker pad. To get homogeneous colour you need to maintain a 'wet edge'.

My daughter does a lot of Manga art, and the proper pens and paper make it look as though they've printed

Yeah, Marker Pads have got a coating on the paper that stops the ink soaking in so much, which stops bleed-through and slows down the drying process, allowing a wet edge to be maintained.

Of course, Magic Markers haven't been the same since they stopped using the screw-top glass jar design that allowed you to top it up when it ran out. :-)

[Digga]

Halmyre said:

crofty1984 said:

What's wrong with wking?

It's difficult keeping it between the lines.

And doing different colours.

FWIW, who cars what people do to relax. You can find relaxation - distraction for the norm and stress - in the most unlikely sports and passtimes, takes all sorts to make the world go round.

I don't often shoot clays, but when I do, I generally find (whether or not I'm crap) that it's rather soothing, especially if you can hit a few, but also because you can't be tense to do any good. My current favourite 'relaxation' is dodging trees and rocks and landing daft jumps and drops on mountain bikes - you have to concentrate so, by definition, you are absorbed in the moment and distracted fully from cares or worries. Or you crash.

[anonymous-user]

Riley Blue said:

What's with these colourng books for adults? I saw some in Sainsburys yesterday, now they're a news item - what's the point of them? Surely all those bored people could do something more useful with their time?

More useful, as in wasting hours reading nonsense on the Internet?!!

[Hoofy]

Digga said:

Halmyre said:

crofty1984 said:

What's wrong with wking?

It's difficult keeping it between the lines.

And doing different colours.

If you try hard enough, you can get a nice bright red.

[Hoofy]

Eric Mc said:

Can't see the problem. One of the joys of life is being able to do things that aren't 100% practical.

I waste a lot of time playing computer games. *shrugs*

Edit: and it appears that the engineers have completed analysing my Porsche 919 Hybrid so I have some circuit testing to do.