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Eerste indruk De voorkant van het boek vind ik erg sprekend. De kleuren zijn erg mooi en kleurrijk. Het valt mij meteen op na dat wanneer ik door het boek heen blader er veel dieren in de theekopjes verwerkt zijn. En dit trekt mij persoonlijk erg aan. Ik heb erg veel zin om hier in te mogen gaan kleuren.
My first impression I like the front, colors are nice and bright. When I go through the book, I see a lot of animals in a teacup, and I like it. I’m excited to start coloring.
Informatie over het boek / Info about the book
Tekenaar? artist: Laurie Beauchamp Taal/ Language: Engels / English Afmeting/ Size: 10x280x215 mm Aantal kleurplaten / Number of designs: 36 ISBN: 9788793385825 Uitgever / Publisher: GDG – Global Doodle Gems
Review Teacup treasures Als je het boek open doet zie je een leuke tekening van een kat in een theekop met de tekst “Te Cuties in this book belongs to” en daar kan je dan je naam onder schrijven . Als je dan omslaat naar de volgende bladzijde zie je wie je allemaal kan benaderen en op welke manier. De bladzijde erna staat een voorwoord geschreven door Laurie Beauchamp. En als je dan weer omslaat zie alle tekeningen in het “klein” getekend waardoor je precies weet en ziet welke tekeningen in dit boek getekend zijn. En dit vind ik persoonlijk wel erg leuk. Vervolgens kun je gaan kiezen welke tekening je wil gaan kleuren. Achterin het boek zie je ook weer “kleine” tekeningen. Deze komen uit het eerste boek van Laurie Beauchamp “Dazzling Dragons”. Deze zien er ook erg mooi uit.
Review Teacup Treasures When you open the book yo see a drawing from a cat in a teacup with the text: “Te Cuties in this book belongs to” where you can write your name. The next page includes info about GDG and Laurie Beauchamp. After that the pages with the tumbnails so you can see what’s in the book, and I like that. Than you can make your chice. In the back of the book you see the Tumbnails of the other Laurie Beachamp book, “Dazzling Dragons”, those look cool too!
Eigen creaties Ik heb 3 willekeurige kleurplaten gekozen uit het boek en wil graag deze laten zien.
De eerste tekening die ik gekleurd heb is met Ecoline – Brush pen gedaan. Het effect is wel erg grappig, maar het papier gaat een beetje bobbelen. Ik vind het dus niet geschikt om het in dit boek te gebruiken. Het is net of je met waterverf aan het verven bent. Het is niet zo dat het doordrukt, maar het papier wordt er niet mooier van. Maar wel een leuk resultaat geworden als zeg ik het zelf.
My creations I choose 3 random pics from the book to color
The first drawing I colored with Ecoline-Brushpens (Ink on waterbase). The effect is funny, but the paper bubbles a bit. It was not the best idea to use, it is like painting with waterpaint. It does not bleedthrough, but it is not that good for the paper. But I do like the result!
De tweede tekening heb ik gekleurd met Stabilo 68 stiften. Ik vond dit erg prettig om mee te werken. Drukte niet door, het papier bleef netjes zoals het moest plat liggen. De kleur werd mooi en goed opgenomen. Ik ervaar dit als zeer prettig om met deze stiften in dit kleurboek ermee te kleuren.
The second drawing I colored with Stabilo 68 pen. I really liked to use them. No bleed through, paper kept great and the colors became nice and bright. I like to use the pens in this coloringbook.
De derde tekening die ik heb gekleurd is met Stabilo 88 fineliners. En ook dit werkt zeer prettig. Sommige kleuren drukken heel licht door, maar dat is te verhelpen door een papiertje er tussen te leggen zodat de andere tekening niet wordt geraakt. Ik vind deze ook qua kleur erg goed gelukt en ik raadt ook aan om kleine details van de tekeningen met fineliners te doen. Geeft een erg mooi effect.
The 3rd drawing I did I used Stabilo 88 fineliners, and those work pretty fine too! Some colors a little bleed through, but that’s no problem, put a protection sheet between the pages. I like the way I colored and it’s a good choice to use the fineliners for the small details. A great effect!
Mijn mening Ik vind het een erg mooi boek. De tekeningen vind ik ook erg mooi en het nodigt mij erg uit om er in te gaan kleuren. De moeilijkheidsgraad in de tekeningen zitten er ook in. Deze ene is moeilijk en de andere is iets makkelijker om te kleuren. De dieren die er in getekend zijn vind ik ook erg mooi. Het materiaal waar het boek van gemaakt is, is voor zeer veel materialen te gebruiken. Denk hierbij aan kleurpotloden, stiften, fineliners, ecoline stiften, waterverf enz. En dit komt omdat de tekeningen enkelvoudig bedrukt zijn zodat je nooit een tekening die aan de achterkant staat verpest. En door er dan een papiertje tussen te doen heb je ook minder kans dat je de tekening die achter de kleurplaat zit waar je mee bezig bent verpest. Kortom ik ben heel enthousiast over dit boek en ik ga er zeker nog meer in kleuren. Ik wil dit boek dan ook waarderen met het cijfer 8.
My opinion I do like the book, drawings are great and invites you to start. Different levels of coloring, some easy, others more detailed. I love the animals. The book is great for colorpencils, pens, fineliners, waterpaint etc, and thats because of the single side printed pages. Always use a protection sheet! Fina, I am very excited about the book, and iI will color more! Ths book deserves an 8.
Het gehele kleurproces… the whole process of coloring
Thank you very much Mimi for your contribution! Wanna see more about Mimi, visit her page Mimi Creatief
Today it’s Valentines day, the day that you think about your loved onces, your secret lover, or other kinds of love…. I wanna share the love for Global Doodle Gems books by our new Dutch Review team…. I will give you some quotes that I found on our secret group! But of course it is also about our GDG Valentines Collection, 3 books already! The team all bought a set of 3 books for a review, so they do know about our books, those Valentines drawings where a gift from me to the team….
Vandaag is het Valentijnsdag, de dag dat je denkt aan je geliefden, je geheime liefde of andere vormen van liefde…Ik wil met jullie de liefde delen voor de Global Doodle Gems boeken van ons nieuwe Nederlandse GDG Reviewteam…. ik geef je wat quotes die ik gevonden heb in onze geheime groep! Maar natuurlijk gaat het ook over onze GDG Valentijns Collectie, 3 boeken intussen al! Het team heeft allemaal een set van 3 boeken gekocht, dus ze raken al bekend met onze boeken, de Valentijnsplaten waren een cadeautje van mij voor hen….
Ik heb mijn team al mijn Valentijnsplaten gegeven die ik heb getekend voor de boeken, net een weekje geleden, omdat mijn idee laat ontstond…maar dat was geen enkel probleem…ze waren zo enthousiast dat ze gelijk aan de slag gingen. Ik heb wat quotes gekopieerd die er werden geschreven op de groep….
I gave the team all my drawings that I made for those books, just a week ago, because my idea came late… but that was not a problem at all…they where so enthusiastic and started to color for us! These are some line ups they wrote on the group….
Debby van Uem-VoortmanIk vind het een eer om hier aan mee te werken! En GDG verdient het ook om beroemd te worden in Nederland, want het zijn fantastische tekeningen van geweldige artiesten in prachtige boeken!
For me it is a honor te work on this! And GDG deserves to become famous in the Netherlands, because the drawings are fantastic from the great artists in gorgeous books!
Charlaine Dingemans NaringLeuke platen, heb ze opgeslagen en wil zeker mee doen. En idd een super uniek iets dat we al die platen krijgen van je
Nice drawings, I collected them all and I am sure to collaborate. And indead, it’s a unique thing that we get all those drawings from you
Janeska Van de WijngaardLeuke platen! Wacht de pdf’s af om te starten. Ben door mee te doen aan dit team meer gemotiveerd om van iedere plaat wat moois te maken.
Nice drawings! I wait for the files to start. Because of being one of this team I am more motivated to make something beautiful from each drawing.
Is dat nu niet geweldig! Om inkleurders / reviewers zulke mooie woorden te zien schrijven? Ik word er zelf helemaal blij en vrolijk van. Het inkleuren nodigt zelfs uit mooie teksten te schrijven bij een plaat zoals Tabitha deed
Isn’t that great! To see that colorists / reviewers write such nice words? It makes me cheerful and happy. During the coloring people even write nice quotes with the drawing, like Tabitha did.
Geniet van het leven en leef het met passie, ook als je je even in de schaduw bevindt…
‘Love life! Be passionate, even when it’s dark’.
En er is meer, nog meer lovende en lieve woorden,
And there is more, more nice quotes!
Johanna Ans, really nice this that we may do all those extra things!
Mimi BezemerDat lijkt mij een eer en een leuke / bijzondere ervaring om hier aan mee te mogen werken. Doe graag mee
That seems like an honor to me and a nice / special experience to work on this. I am in
Margreet KoelewijnIk kleur zeker meer en heb er meer plezier in. Dat komt vast ook door de diversiteit in de boeken. Ik zie overal wel een uitdaging in….in de tekening zelf of het materiaal. Erg leuk!
I color more, and have more fun coloring. I think it is because of the diversity in the books. I see a challenge everywhere…in the drawing it self or the material to use. Really nice!
Natuurlijk ga ik jullie ook laten zien wat het team de afgelopen week allemaal heeft ingekleurd, ik heb hun werk verzameld en er een video van gemaakt… Dit blog is ook een verrassing voor hen, want ik wil hen ook bedanken…. even benadrukken hoe ik hun werk waardeer en hun enthousiasme, hun blogs die al worden gemaakt en het delen van al hun werk wat ze hebben gedaan in de afgelopen weken!
Of course I want to show you what the colorist did last week, I collected there work and made a nice video of it…. This blog is also a surprise for them, because I want to say thank you to them too…want to tell how much I appreciate there enthousiasme, there work, there blogs and sharing of all the work they have done in just a couple of weeks!
En als je dan toch iets meer over de Nederlandse geliefden taal wil leren…. ik vond dit op Youtube… en is gewoon leuk!
And if you like to learn some pretty nice DUTCH LOVE lessons… I found this on Youtube… and it is funny….
Tot ziens in het volgende blog!!! Oh, en ja, het team gaat ook kleuren voor de Paascollectie…Alle Nederlandse tekenaars die meegewerkt hebben aan GDG Easter Collection Volume 1 & 2, hebben hun tekeningen ter beschikking gesteld aan het Reviewteam. Dank jullie wel Peggy, Sabine, Ellen, Mireille, Inge en Arianne... Ik weet zeker dat er weer met veel plezier gekleurd gaat worden!
Untill the next blog!!! Oh, and yes, the team will also color for our GDG Easter Collection… All Dutch artists that are in the GDG Easter Collection Volume 1 & 2 send in there drawings to me to give to the team! Thank you Peggy, Sabine, Ellen, Mireille, Inge & Arianne…. I am sure the team will have fun coloring!
Your blogger Johanna Ans and GDG Dutch Review Team for Global Doodle Gems
GDG “Color the Twelve Days of Christmas” by Alfred E. Villanueva
An old traditional little story that tells you about the 12 days before X-Mas, gorgeous drawn by our talented young artist Alfred E. Villanueva. He knows that I am one of his biggest fans, from day one that I saw one of his first drawings. He also became very special for me, as a very good friend oversea! I wish I could go there, to give him a hug and a nice present to wish him Merry Christmas…. but that’s not possible…. but I am Johanna Ans, and you know Alfred, I can give you presents an other way!
My first wish: I want that book colored from the beginning till the end!
My second wish: I want to have that book! So I asked for it, and Maria and she gave me your book Alfred!
Of course the first thing to do, was to take a good look in it…and I am very happy with this beauty! Snowballs and gorgeous artwork! Come on, have a look with me…
My third wish: Find some great colorists from different coloring groups to help me make this a colorful present for you my friend.
My fourth wish: That my wish to do this for you Alfred will become true…. My fifth wish: One of the most important for me, to give the colorists the right drawings, that fits them to color for you!
My sixth wish: Hear from the colorists that they had fun, coloring you art, that I can help some of them that I specially choosed because I know they are very insecure…
My seventh wish: That you feel the love, that we had for each other to work on this project in secret!
My eighth wish: That you feel the magic that we created together, to give somebody a very special feeling..
My ninth wish: Having 26 colored pieces finished at the right time, to wish you Merry Christmas, this special way…
My tenth wish: That the start of this X-Mas eve, will give you, the spirit that you need to have a great X-Mas with your family and friends
My eleventh wish: That art, color, inspiration, happiness and health will be on your path the next year…
My twelfth wish: That you enjoy the next video that we made for you my friend.
Of course I will tell you the names who colored with me for you, I am grateful Alfred, to have such talented colorists around me, that I can ask to make special things for others, people who stop what they are doing, so they can focus on this project. And believe me, we all had fun. Some told me, oh so much different than what I do normal, others said, they where not easy, but so proud of what I made of it…so your X-Mas spirit that you must have felt making this book, reached out to us all too!
We wish you a Merry Christmas Alfred, with a lot of love from all of us!
This Holiday season you can by this book yourself for a very special price, only $3.99, that’s a kind of gift to you all!
Click on the link and you will become in our GDG Store:
Color The Twelve Days of Christmas: A Magical Christmas Coloring Book
A 25 single page coloring book inspired by the Christmas song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” by Alfred E. Villanueva
get it here http://astore.amazon.com/globaldoodleg-20/detail/8793385943
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU AND A HAPPY COLORFUL CREATIVE NEW YEAR 2017
Global Doodle Gems & Kleurglossy (Translation of the article)
You all knew that we are in the Dutch magazine “Kleurglossy” from publisher Personalia, but for the most of you, it was not possible to read the article…of course I thought of a solution, and asked my friend and colorist Leo Delescen (AKA Nightcolorist) to translate the article for you. Thank you very much for your time Leo!
We had a small talk about our great book GDG “The directory of Who’s Who”. It is a petty that they forgot to mention the blog about the book, that the biggest colorgroup of The Netherlands made, “Kleuren voor Volwassenen”. Because that was a part of this adventure! But let us start, so you can read yourself!
Global Doodle Gems is a worldwide collaboration of over 130 committed artists, illustrators and colorists. It was launched last year by 42 year old Danish artist Maria Wedel. And it catches on. By now almost a hundred coloring books have been published with contributions of countless Global Doodle Gems artists. And it is still counting… A conversation with Maria and her Dutch right hand Johanna Ans van den Broek about the how and why of this colorful initiative.
It all started when I received requests from several artists within my network for coloring in my drawings before I myself had the time for that. That’s funny, I thought, maybe this is a way to bring together artists who love drawing and coloring together. Without hindrance of publishers who’s only goal is to make profit but instead the possibility of publishing by a group of people and keep ownership of our own work. Thus the idea of Global Doodle Gems sprang into life in 2015. So I already posessed a network of artists. I decided to ask them if they would be interested in joining me.Within no time a group of 50 people was formed. And now there are already 130 enthusiastic and creative people in this collaboration.
OWNERSHIP OF YOUR OWN CREATIONS
The Global Doodle Gems netwerk is spreading and extending. From the Philippines to Taiwan and from the United States to Denmark. Those who want to join the worldwide network must of course have a lot to offer but in particular they must have a distinctive style of drawing. At the moment there are eight Dutch participants active in the Global Doodle Gems network. One of them is 50 year old Johanna Ans van den Broek who came in contact with Maria Wedel indirectly: “I knew Maria’s work and the idea of creating a companionship of like minded people appealed to me very much, especially the part where you always keep ownership of your work. Often a coloring picture or book is published by a publisher who then owns copyright and also receives all additional revenues. At Global Doodle Gems the artists are put first. It is a wonderful platform to share work, both for newbies and advanced artists.
UNIQUE COLOR EXPERIENCE
The good thing is that we all love to draw and to colored but each has his or her own style. And that is exactly what we want to achieve: to bring together all the different styles into one unique color experience. So you work individually but make a book together. We publish several kinds of books, including the so called Volume books which contain sixty coloring pictures by ten different artists. Those whitin our network who are interested can subscribe in advance. The only demand is that the drawing must be ‘clean’, so no traces of erasing, pencil strokes or sloppy lines. The picture must be ready to be colored in immediately. Maria is the one who coordinates all requests. “Sometimes this causes stress. There are quite a lot of people I have to ‘manage’ and things to handle. Luckily Johanna Ans provides support and help, like promotional work as there is the maintenance of our Facebook page or writing blogs for our website.”
OUTLET
To Johanna Ans Global Doodle Gems means more than drawing and writing blogs: “It’s an outlet, or rather a lifebuoy that came at the exact right moment in my life. For some time now I have been struggling with my health. In 2013 I suffered from a brain hemorrhage. I was depressed and had mood swings. Thanks to my work for Global Doodle Gems some tranquility came back into my life. And even more, it restore confidence. Sketching, coloring and writing give me joy. I color since I was eight years old and I’m happy to say that this passion never goes away. Coloring is a thing that comes from deep inside, out of the heart. I always tell others: you don’t need to stay within the lines, just let yourself go. Practice the ‘just do whatever you like’ technique. And it really does not matter with which materials you color. Whether they are inexpensive colored pencils from a budget store like Lidl or a beautiful Caran d’Ache Pablo set (which by the way are my favorites): it’s the hand that colors, not the material.”
At the moment Johanna Ans is working on projects……
….that have a Dutch dimension: “I cannot tell much at this stage but together with some Dutch Doodle Gems artists we are working on a book titled “Typical Dutch” which will contain coloring pictures with typical Dutch subjects like windmills and cheese. Also I am working on “Wood you color me”? It’s all in the name: it is a coloring book that revolves around wood. The cover is colored in by Wendy Hofstee of Wendy Kleurt! I was also involved with making the Global Doodle Gems book “Directory of Who’s Who” (in this issue of Kleurglossy you can find several drawings from this publication). This book is published in cooperation with Adult Coloring Worldwide and is aimed at adult colorists. In it there are 119 designs on as many pages with mentioning the name of the artist. A beautiful coloring book that lets you meet the artists and their styles. Oh, and I will publish a calender book. Not to mention all the regular duties.
TALENTED ARTISTS
Not only Johanna Ans is very active within the Global Doodle Gems community, all artists are. New titels are published every month. Besides the Volume books Global Doodle Gems publishes theme books (like flowers or mandalas) and seasonal books (Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentine Day). The Volume Mini collection is also popular. “And so covenient! The paperback size fits your bag perfectly. It’s nice to take with you and color in a train or while waiting somewhere”, Johanna Ans says. The books sell very well in the USA but in Netherlands and other countries they do well also. “We have so many talented artists in our ranks. Not only women but men also. From Taiwan there are Mr. End and Pica Wu. And from the Philipines our very talented young man Alfred E. Villanueva. Sketching for Global Doodle Gems provides him with the opportunity for a better life. I am glad that he is well. Looking at myself, I cannot make a living of the revenues. But that is not what I am aiming at. For me Global Doodle Gems is a meaningful way to pass the time. And if at the end I do manage to make a profit than that’s all the better.” Johanna Ans says.
THE LARGEST PUBLISHER OF COLORING BOOKS
Now that Global Doodle Gems made a successful start it is time to grow further according to Maria. The ultimate goal is to become the largest independent publisher of coloring books. At the moment it is mainly charitable work but in the long run it has to become profitable. “We finance new publications with the profits of existing ones, after settling the artist’s royalties. Profits of the mini books where artists participate voluntarily benefit Global Doodle Gems entirely. As for the rest, we try to draw attention in all possible ways. In countries where we are represented our artists show the public who we are and what we do via Facebook and by other means. But the most important thing is that we provide colorists around the world a beautiful and unique coloring experience.”
It is almost there, Christmas is coming… are you already coloring or making your X-Mas cards? Maybe we have some lovely help for you…to color…to cut out….make a card or X-mas ornament of it. Two big fat minibooks are made for you to have a lot of fun with it. I already had, I draw, and colored tons of it, of course to make those beautiful covers for the books in the first place.
Maria took care of the templates, and after that we both start to fill in the ornaments, wit patterns, funny faces, small drawings, all kinds of ornaments so you will find your favorites!
Let us take a look inside the books, start with Volume 1
That are a lot of ornaments to color for you, isn’t it…but there is more! Take a look with me in Volume 2
I colored almost a 100 of those ornaments, I will show you some examples. You can see them already on the cover, but it looks better for you when you see it also with the white background….
I colored this X-Mas sock with Derwent Inktense, lovely bright colors to use
After I put my X-mas colors on paper I get mySakura Koi Waterbrush, and make the colors even more bright. I love those pencils! I finish my sock with some beautiful golden gelpen, Sakura Gelly Roll Metallic, one of my favorite gelpens.
You can color in traditional, but also do it just the way that it fits with your X-Mas decorations that you already have… I colored all different ways, so I hope to send the best choice to my family and friends, fitting with there style! Chique Black, White and Red… Colored with Sharpies,Uniball Signo white gelpen and ShinHan alcoholmarkers.
Or colorful Rainbow X-Mas… Easy coloring with Sharpies and Stabilo 68
And what about the funny X-Mas, for those who have kids, I think they would love to color funny faces like these! I used Derwent Inktense,Spectrum Noir Markers and my Stabilo 88 Fineliners for the last one, just a different style to color, make patterns!
And there are of course the animal lovers, who also do there X-Mas mood in Pawstyle, we thought about that too!
But I also start to craft, to make a X-mas card, that also can be used as a X-mas ornament for the receiver, without losing the X-Mas wishes on the card…. I will show you in a small video…
So you can see, you can have some lovely evenings, coloring and make your own special cards and decorations, by yourself, or with your whole family. If you like to have a copy yourself, you can find the GDG “Big Little Books of X-Mas Ornaments” right here…
101 single page big decorated Christmas ornaments to color and have fun with, So here is “The Big Little Book of Xmas Ornaments” 1. There are pages for all levels of coloring, so the whole family can enjoy this and have fun with it … lots of possibilities cut out your designs and use for Christmas cards … or use for Christmas Decorations … or just enjoy coloring in the book ….
101 single page big decorated Christmas ornaments to color and have fun with, So here is “The Big Little Book of Xmas Ornaments” 2. There are pages for all levels of coloring, so the whole family can enjoy this and have fun with it … lots of possibilities cut out your designs and use for Christmas cards … or use for Christmas Decorations … or just enjoy coloring in the book ….
Have a lot of fun upcoming X-Mas time, decorate your houses, make family happy with nice wishes and cards, love your family and friends…
We have some new gorgeous individual books…let’s take a look what can be on your shelves!
Start with a beautiful and sweet book from artist Laurie Beauchamp, GDG “Teacup Treasures”, lovely sweet animals in teacups… really lovely to color!
Laurie colored the drawings for the cover herself, she can do both pretty good!
And look what is inside the book….
Show you some work from our colorists……
…start with Deb Norman from the FB group 50 shades of coloring
Colorist: Audrey Sagh
Of course there will be more, I am coloring myself too…you will see that in the next blog.
Like to start to color yourself, than klick on the link and get your own Teacup Treasures…You will have a lot of fun coloring these sweeties!
Adult Coloring Book, be prepared to get swept away and fall in love with this beautiful and highly detailed magical book by Laurie Beauchamp …. 35 amazing and wonderful single page drawings of the most wonderful Teacup Treasures ….Cuties to color .. love and delight in !
The next GDG book, is from artist Mark Coyle, a new member of our collaboration, with a beautiful style of drawing…He takes you through a fantasyworld….GDG Celestial Creatures
Mark is also a good colorist, as you can see on the cover, I like to have a look inside the book, you?
Of course our colorists would help us to inspire you….Look at these gorgeous colorings from Véro Pignot
And this beautiful bird, colored by Leo Delescen, AKA The Nightcolorist
And than those beauties from colorist Elisabeth Delhaye
There will be much more to show you, but I safe that for a next blog about Celestial Creatures… Want to have a copy of your own, please klick on the link below
Let your imagination soar with these 30 celestial creatures. Interact with the 12 Zodiac beings and other characters in dreamy constellations: sunhorses and moonhorses, pegasi, goddesses, Sirius the dog star, Lupus the wolf, Ursa the bear, and other sky-roaming beings.The hand-drawn art ranges in complexity from relatively simple to intricate. Pages are printed on one side.
Yes , it is almost there….The Halloween celebration. Are you gonna celebrate? We from Global Doodle Gems will, with again a gorgeous book to color for you!
Let us take a creepy sneaky view into this Volume 3…. we might become scared!
I will show you some colored scary pieces to inspire you…
Those are from my own hand, it is more funny then creapy hahaha, but you can make them look as scary as you want!
I colored mine with Sharpies, Stabilo 68 and a Sakura Sparkles gold gelpen, and a little Spectrum Noirfor the shades in the Spider
The next drawings and colorings are done by artist Nancy Liu, gorgeous work! The first is also used on the cover, a very deserved spot!
Also a very talented artist and colorist is Jodi Ho from Taiwan, I really love this work!
Artist and colorist Jenny Wei, also from Taiwan, did a beautiful job on those two!
And what about this masterpiece, yes of course it is our frontcover artpiece, done by Rover Hsiao, isn’t she creapy gorgeous?
I hope you will be impressed by what I showed you so far…because there will be more in the next blog about Halloween. If you want yourself a copy, I will make it easy for you and put in a link for you!
Global Doodle Gems Halloween Collection coloring book offers you 55 designs to color from 18 artists. We have come together to create a one of a kind coloring experience! Having a wide variety of artists will allows us to accommodate more levels of color enthusiasts! Wishing you a colortastic journey … with our third Halloween Collection from “Global Doodle Gems”!
And for if you don’t remember our last years Halloweenbooks, I will give you a reminder…. Maybe you like to have the whole collection together, just like I will…. Before I even never did any Halloweencoloring at all, but with my first set to draw, I got inspired, tickled, and becae a Halloweenfan!
So, as you can see, there is a lot of Halloweenfun to color, our prices are lowered, so it will be affortable for everyone in the world…. Because celebrate is more fun, with a lot of people!
Getting back on the road again, some personal issues, technical problems to solve, but we are coming back as Global Doodle Gems… a lot of new books are coming soon, some brand new ideas came up with are artists, so there will be a lot for you collorists to look forward too! But let us start with our latest book, GDG “Halloween Collection” Volume 3.
The cover by it self looks realy stunning to me…
I already look forward to make a start to color this gorgeous book….let us take a look inside, so I can warm you up to get this book!
Me myself feel a little small with my contribution, there is so much great work in this book, but I am still happy to be in it…. I made a drawing from a cat skull, everybody makes human skulls, so original it is. Look…
Artist: Jodi Ho, colorist: Lilan Chen and Rover Hsiao
Artist & colorist: Laurie Beauchamp
Artist: Lilan Chen, colorist: Rover Hsiao
Artist: Johanna Ans, colorist: Laurence Roucou
Artist: Nancy 43, colorist: Jenny Wei
Artist: Rover Hsiao, colorist Jenny Wei
Artist: Johanna Ans, colorist Elisabeth Delhaye
Did I scare you? No, I don’t think so, it’s better that I inspired you… Hope you have a good impression, for what you can expect in this GDG Halloween Collection, that you will join us to color and show your work on our fangroup….than your coloring might be the next inspiration for others!
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Global Doodle Gems Halloween Collection coloring book offers you 55 designs to color from 18 artists. We have come together to create a one of a kind coloring experience! Having a wide variety of artists will allows us to accommodate more levels of color enthusiasts! Wishing you a colortastic journey … with our third Halloween Collection from “Global Doodle Gems”!
I think that I will make an unfair review this time… why…I am a big fan from Team Taiwan… they are a team of such talented artists, and the way they color…. damn, it always makes me feel small, when I do my best on there drawings…But I love their work, and I really love to color their work….so I just do my thing… and they are happy and greatfull with my “thing”… and they like it…. Yes, I am not afraid to tell you all that I am insecure too sometimes….. Look at this gorgeous cover to start!
The beautifull front cover is designed and colored by Lilan Chen. The back cover is designed by Angel Huang and colored by Leaf Yeh. I wonder when they both made these drawings that it would become such a great opposite to eachother…. They really fit together for me!
This cover made me laugh out loud, look at the grumphy lady on the backcover… I hear her think “Why is she on the front?….” And the lady on the frontcover, she looks so secure about her beauty, her bodylanguage tells me “Don’t you see that I am the prettiest”, hahaha
Good start to take a look inside this book, a Bon Voyage, a Nice Trip….
And o my gosh, I see so many lovely, gorgeous, great, fantastic drawings…I want this book! I am happy that I was invited by Team Taiwan to color with them…and started with creatures that I never colored before…yes, I colored a Robot … My first thought was, that’s for boys to color…and my second thought was… There is as much male in me as female, I am that strong, I am that hairy, now I have the change to be that guy…And I had a lot of fun…. and I was happy with my result!
I want you to see what comment Alexius gave me after I posted my “Robot” on Team Taiwan Group
Alexius HsingOh my god! That really brought out the spirit of the alien robot. Thanks Johanna😀
Johanna AnsThanks, glad that you are happy with my coloring!
Alexius HsingThe colour is just what I have imagined for the alien robot. Thanks so much.
Yeah!!! That gave me confidence…. so let’s do “Warriors” too hahaha… now I am into the Valkerie spirit…. And again I grabbed my Spectrum Noir Markersto color
I know, that’s the girl in me, the colors are maybe to soft, but I am a “peace” girl, let’s say, that I would impress the enemy with soft colors, and with a girl in front of the strong warriors this war will end very soon… My story… hmm, let me be a kid too sometimes even when I am 50 years young!
But I am keeping your view on my colorings, I better start showing you what Team Taiwan colored, let them impress and inspire you…. Yes, I am into the video too of course, we collect as much as we can…and we are still coloring… but for the first video, a really nice collection!
Now you see, why I sometimes be scared to be one of their colorists…. they are so talented…make such a great work… I hope someday that I can fly over to Taiwan, to visit them, and see how they use their brands, their materials, see there techniques,…I will watch them all, and learn of them… I also know, that they work pretty hard, they all help eachother out, to make as much as possible collorings…. maybe we all could learn of that… And whenever I ask them to help me out, for myself, or for a surprise to color for somebody, they never say no…. Yes Team Taiwan, that’s how I feel about you…But, I can show you a little from the desks of colorists from team Taiwan, I had some great folders to use too, with work in progress shots…so it looks like we can look over the shoulder of the colorist! I made this video for you to inspire you….
I hope that I gave you a great trip through this book…. that you like it as much as I do…. There will be more and more to show you,and i thought, I will safe it for the next blog…. But in the meantime that I was working on the video’s and write the blog, did I even think that Team Taiwan was sleeping? No way, my Google Drive box got filled up again…so I had to work again… just like they do… another video to inspire you!
…If you like to start to color your own copy, be our guest
The Team Taiwan Collection 1: Adult Coloring book 25 Artists 60 Designs (Volume 1)An unique Collection from Global Doodle Gems Team Taiwan, 25 artists 60 single page designs, offering you great variety and lots of hours of coloring fun. Artists featured in this collection are Mr. End, Lin Chiu, Damy Teng, Wenyu Lin Small Fish, Rover Hsiao, Wanting Huang, Pica Wu, Nancy43, Lilan Chen, M. Lin, Chou Yu-Jin, Angel Huang, Happy Fishhhhhh, Leaf Yeh, Jodi Ho, Jenny Wei, Pajun Chen, Wen Kung, Hung Ai-Ling, Debbie Lai, Mina Hsiao, Jennifer Rainbow Beryllium, Kimiko Maeda & Jean Li
You also can find gorgeous work from Team Taiwan in our newest book GDG “The Annual Colorist Choice” a special price in the month of July 2016 because of our GDG B-Day to celebrate!
Ultimate Global Doodle Gems Adult Coloring Collection… Chosen by colorists ! We had a huge nomination round on our Global Doodle Gems Coloring Group, colorists nominated their favorite drawings by submitting their colored pieces from the Global Doodle Gems Books published from the first year July 2015 to April 2016. Over 500 Drawings were nominated for the book. We had a Jury of 7 Judges from the large Coloring Groups, vote on their favourites and here is the result, We hope you will enjoy it ! The Cover was colored by Vero Pignot and the colored piece on the cover was chosen from all the nominated colored pieces… then Vero was asked to color the back with the portrait of Maria Wedel, the founder of Global Doodle Gems, in the same style. Cover drawings are by Orbleu’s and Alfred E. Villanueva.
I had fun to write this blog, hope that you had fun too
GDG “Dazzling Dragons”, by Laurie Beauchamp, personal review
When I had this book in my hands for the first time, I was totally flabbergasted! What a gorgeous cover, front and back. I really needed to look inside to see what was promised by the cover!
Let me show you the inside first too, for your pleasure:
I really wanted to color this book, but for the first time I felt a little intimidated…how can I bring this gorgeous detailed work alive? Me, who never thinks about things like that, but just always starts and sees where it will end! Really, this is such a great book, I love the detailed drawings…. I did not want to ruin it! And then I thought to myself, how can I possibly ruin this work; I like to color, I love details, I am in love with the drawings…. just grab your stuff Johanna and start…and that’s just what I did….
I started on the first page of the book, a sweet little dragon, and a spot where you could write your name … and that was the first thing I did… now it’s mine, and I am gonna make a gorgeous book of it!
I collected my stuff to color; my Stabilo 88 (0.4mm) and my Steadtler Triplus Brilliance(0.3mm), because these are perfect for my first coloring. I like to “feel” all the lines that the artist made… so every little spot on it, was colored separately… like I was coloring with needles….
To let the wings show I used my new Spectrum Noir Sparkles Clear, wow what glitter and glamour! I don’t usually use glitters; it is not my style, but sometimes it gives you that little extra, and for the wings, I loved it! The background that you see in the middle I did with my Talens Rembrand Softpastels, sweet and soft colors….. I am into the Dazzling Dragons!!!
Normally I will go through the book and choose a favorite to color, but there is no favorite, I like them all-so I started right after the intro page with the next one… also done with my fineliners and colorgel sparkles.
You can see how small the spaces are, but every spot of the scale, has 3 colors, started with the yellow, than the light orange and a small spot of red! That took me some time…. but I loved it….
For the bigger spots in the drawing I used my Tiger Touch– and the Spectrum Noir Alcoholmarkers. Once again it became a colorful piece of art….
And then I went to the 3rd page and thought “hey I know this”, yup- it is the front cover of the book…beautifully colored by Rover Hsiao- I am a big fan of her coloring and I wondered how I could even compare with her work…… again I was afraid…Laurie what did you do to me with your Dazzling Dragons… I never usually have feelings like this, haha…. but I started it… and I made the start with the most difficult coloring for me to do, skin… even though I haven’t done it a lot, I know the way it should be done, but I am too insecure when doing faces…no, maybe it is that I do not like to color faces….. and if I do, I use most of the time making-up the color, or just use it out of the colorbox…. but I am happy with my work! I used Stabilo Carbothello Pastel pencils and Conté Pastel pencils…
After I finished the skin I immediately grabbed my Talens Fixative spray, I did not want to destroy it… After using that, you can still go over it with new colors if you like!
This time, instead of paperstumps for the pastel I used a flat brush to smear out the colors….very smoothly, because I didn’t want to change the color, just let them flow together. It was the first time that I have used this method, and I have to say, it works pretty fine to me!
Of course I made a small video too from my work in progress… take a look if you wish…
If you are in love with this book, as much as I am, then you really have to buy yourself a copy, it will be hours and hours of fun to color.
Adult Coloring Book, be prepared to get swept away and fall in love with this beautiful and highly detailed magical book by Laurie Beauchamp …. 37 amazing and wonderful single page drawings of the most wonderful dragons ….
Your blogger Johanna Ans & team Global Doodle Gems
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GDG “Colour It”, Book 1 & 2 by Ondine Summers, inspiration
As promised, I have done another blog about the gorgeous books from artist Ondine Summers. She makes gorgeous old school tattoo art drawings, which are really fun to color.
We will start with GDG “Colour It”, book 1
To give you a nice impression of the book, I will show you the inside…
Let us start with some coloring! These beautiful colourings are done by Lynni Ex. I think that Lynni used her Faber Castel Polychromos, because they are her favourites!
Myself, I did a coloring with Caran d’Ache Neocolor 2, very old stuff that I have, but never really used it before, so for old school coloring, it became time to use my old school material!
I just used my “I-do-what-I-do-and-will-see-what-it-will-become” technique; that for me is the way to get familiar with brands that I have not used before…. so I just started with layering some different colors of red!
Wow, this is fun, after using a Sakura Koi Waterbrushpen, you can add some more color, and it will give it a whole different look, I think I am gonna like these Neocolors… There is even a golden and silver crayon….fun!
It works up pretty fast, and it feels like it is easy to do, because when the water hits the color, it becomes fluid almost immediately, and it blends damn good! I have to practice more of course, I think that I could get a lot more out of these mediums.
But for my first attempt, I am really happy with the result, I hope you like it too. I also want to show you, even if you use a material for the first time, that the result can be good! It is also a “practice run”, to learn more about what you can do! I am never afraid to learn new things, and show the results, even if it can be much better. By showing your first work, and then keep practising, you will also grow!
Ondine herself, colored her work too of course, look what she did! Ondine used Caran d’Ache Luminance pencils; really good and professional pencils, You have to be good, or practice a lot, because it is not just a pencil!
I really love the way those drawings are done, they inspire me too!
Let us be inspired too by the GDG”Colour It”, book 2
And of course the inside of the book!
I also asked Cynthia Elhorst from “Kleuren voor Volwassenen”, to help me to make this review for Ondine, she did a real nice job, using Decotime Alcoholmarkers, a brand new type in The Netherlands (we buy it in the Action stores) ; very very cheap alcoholmarkers, that I can even make a comparison with mine ! Only the Decotime costs 95 eurocents for 3 markers, and the ShinHan almost 3 euros a piece!
Cynthia told me that she was inspired by her Koi Fish, I really like how she brought this fish alive!
And look, even the backside of the drawing is an artpiece, I like to see those pictures too!
Her second drawing was a skull, she loves to color skulls!
Isn’t she gorgeous!
This one is a masterpiece I believe, the Elephant, so beautifully done by Lynni Ex. Gorgeous bright and beautiful colors! I like to see when people think out of there colorbox and use colors that are not reality colors. It makes this picture so much alive, an artpiece!
Ondine of course colored too, look to her inspiration for you…
I saved a small video specially for the end of this blog, colored by Peggy Sue Karunding, with Promarkers, pastels and a white gelpen. Why a video? She sent in so much Work In Progress shots, that it is nice to see her black & white fish become a beautiful colored fish!
Look, when you see the same drawings next to eachother, colored by 2 different people, how great this will look when 10 people color it their own way…then you will have a pond of gorgeous fish!
So, that was a nice inspiration to show you, wasn’t it? If you would like to color the designs in these gorgeous books for yourself, I will give you the links so you can buy your copies. It’s so easy- click on the link(s)
Amazing Adult Coloring book with wicked designs by Ondine Summers, an award winning tattoo artist from Norfolk, England, get ready for a journey of old school designs with wonderful details and beautiful twists and turns … A must have in your collection…
Amazing Adult Coloring book, the second in the series Colour It, with wicked designs by Ondine Summers, an award winning tattoo artist from Norfolk, England, get ready for a journey of old school designs with wonderful details and beautiful twists and turns … A must have in your collection…
It is one of the most difficult things-to write a review about your own book… so we had to do something different. We gave a “do a chapter” challenge for our colorists on our FB page: Global Doodle Gems
First we shall take a look inside this book…
Wat is het moeilijkste om te doen…juist een review schrijven over je eigen boek, dus daar hebben we wat op bedacht. We hebben een uitdaging gelanceerd op onze FB Global Doodle Gems, en leden colorists gevraagd om een hoofdstuk voor me uit te testen. We kijken eerst even in het boek…
The first person that sent in her finished chapter is Jasmijn van Binsbergen
And she wrote this to me:
The cat can be filled in so many different ways but I followed my first intuition. I am a person who wants to do something perfect but tried to leave that behind me. Intuition is also ok! I didn’t wanted to fill it in so that it looked too busy with too many patterns but also I didn’t want to make it too clean to avoid big spaces.So I created spirals as the fur. It’s quite difficult to fill in the already made patterns but they also help with the creating.
The story I wanted to give was an effect as if the cat has a zentangle band around it. Drawing was very nice to do and I wanted to do it more and more. After that, the coloring also gives you lots of options. I copied the page to color it again in different colors in the future. The cat is colored with koh-i-noor gioconda because I can blend and create effects easily with them. Despites making the same cat twice, I really didn’t have the inclination to do the page twice. The drawing and coloring are really different processes. But both very fun!
Thanks for the idea of using zentangle and color together. I will continue with that idea!
De kat nodigt uit tot zeer veel mogelijkheden maar ik ben voor mijn eerste inval gegaan. Ik ben iemand die alles het liefst gelijk perfect kan maar dit heb ik geprobeerd achter mij te laten. Intuïtief is ook goed! Daarbij wilde ik hem niet al te druk maken met patronen maar ook niet te ‘leeg’ om grote vlakken te voorkomen. Vandaar de spiralen als ‘vacht’. Het is nog best lastig om de voorgevormde figuren in te vullen met patronen omdat deze ‘mallen’ al best sturend zijn. Toch zijn ze ook weer erg helpend. Bij de staart wilde ik een effect creëren alsof hij een zentangle band er omheen gedraaid heeft. Het tekenen is erg leuk om te doen en vraagt direct om meer. Eenmaal uitgetekend is de manier van inkleuren ook weer zeer divers. Ik heb de tekening gekopieerd zodat ik hem nog eens in andere variaties kan kleuren. De plaat is gekleurd met koh-i-noor gioconda omdat deze makkelijk mengen en effecten te creëren. Ondanks dat je eigenlijk tweemaal dezelfde tekening maakt heb ik totaal niet het idee gehad dat ik bij het inkleuren de plaat weer opnieuw moest doen. Er is immers een totaal andere plaat gecreëerd en tekenen en inkleuren geven echt een andere ervaring. Maar beiden erg leuk!
Bedankt dat ik deze uitdaging aan mocht gaan en het smaakt naar meer dus ik ga er lekker mee door.
Jasmijn van Binsbergen
Thank you Jasmijn, great job you did! And I’m happy to read that you really had fun!
The second chapter that I got in my mail is from Laurence Roucou and she wrote this about her chapter:
A big challenge and a great experience for me who is not a designer, to meet the challenge of Johanna : finish one of her drawings and coloring .It is not perfect ( irregular features …), but I have been able to unleash my creativity and it amused me ! I used Faber Castell Polychromos, pens and digital background. Johanna thank you .
Het tweede hoofdstuk in mijn mail kreeg ik van Laurence Roucou en zei schreef me het volgende over haar hoofdstuk: Een grotere uitdaging en een erg leuk experiment is er niet voor mij, die geen tekenaar is, dan de uitdaging aan te gaan voor Johanna. Maak een van haar tekkeningen af en kleur in…of de “kant en klare” tekening inkleuren. Maar ik heb het loslaten van mijn eigen creatviteit mogen ervaren, en het was leuk! Johanna, bedankt.
How great to see, how Laurence worked on this drawing! Really nice pattern.
Wat gaaf om te zien hoe Laurence te werk is gegaan in deze tekeneing. Erg leuk patroon ook! What a gorgeous result Laurence, thank you very much for your help!
The third set in my mailbox is from colorist Alison Civil and she wrote this to me:
Hi Johanna, here are my doodled and coloured versions of your pics.
I loved being able to doodle on the WIPS and put my own mark on them, and then compare them to your drawings too. I love the idea of the book containing drawings to add to as well as colour.
Best wishes
Alison Civil schrijft;
Hoi Johanna, hier zijn mijn ingetekende en ingekleurde versies van jou tekeningen. Ik vond het heerlijk om te tekenen in the work in progress tekeningen, en mijn eigen stempel er op kunnen zetten, en dan vervolgens vergelijken met die van jou. Ik vind het idee van het boek erg leuk, intekenen en dan kleur toevoegen.
Let’s take a look at Alison’s work… she put her mark on 2 drawings, and colored them both, and also colored my drawing. Laten we eens naar het werk van Alison kijken, ze heeft 2 tekeningen zelf verder ingevuld en ingekleurd, en ook nog de tekening van mijzelf.
Set 2
And the colored version of my drawing. Do you see how different they all look, great job Alison, thank you very much!
And the last colorist for this blog will be Véro Pignot. She did a hell of a job, with a lot of work in progress shots, so I had to make a video of it…. she messaged me: It was so great to do this !!!!!! f**** now I want your book, I just wrote it on my wish list lol. It is really a great idea, really !!!!!
En het laatste kleurtalent voor dit blog is Véro Pignot. Zij heeft geweldig werk geleverd, met een heleboel WIP shots, dus daar moest ik een video van maken….. zij schreef in PB: Het was o leuk om dit te doen!!!!! f**** nu wil ik je boek, schrijf het meteen op mijn wensenlijst. dit is echt een goed idee, echt!!!
I see that Laurence and Véro had the same set to start, but they look so different because of what they did with my work, and they looked from a different perspective…. and I love all the work you four colorists did. We have another colorist who will work on a set, but she started with some colorings first…to get into the spirit…let us take a look at the colorings from Elisabeth Delhaye…. and a lot of wip scans to make a video of course!
Ik zie dat Laurence en Véro dezelfde startset hebben ontvangen, maar ze zien er zo verschillend uit doordat ze iets geheel verschillends hebben gedaan met mijn werk, en vanuit een ander perspectief gezien ook! En ik vind al jullie werk mooi. We hebben nog een kleurster in ons midden, Elisabeth, die heeft eerst mijn platen ingekleurd, om in de spirit van het boek te komen… we zullen eens naar haar kleurwerk gaan kijken…ook al zoveel WIP scans…dus opnieuw een video!
Thank you Elisabeth…in the next blogs we will see your drawingskills!
I hope you enjoyed these gorgeous drawing skills from our colorists…. I am glad that they had so much fun doing the job! Ik hoop dat jullie net als ik hebben genoten van de tekenvardigheden van onze fanatieke kleurders…. ik ben blij dat zij er zo van genoten hebben het te mogen doen!
Twister-Gems-Doodle-do-book: Adult Coloring Book Step to finish…Draw along and Color (Volume 1) Adult coloring book with step outs of the process. With some help from me to inspire you and your imagination we will make art together. You can draw with me as your example, copie my idea…or fill in whatever pops up in your mind…. I give you lines… half designs and finished work…and after that…there will be a lot to color… your art… mine… and ours! Draw your colorful life with me
Johanna Ans & Maria Wedel promotion….. we have books too!!
We have been working so hard on promoting everybody’s books-by making videos, making blogs, putting them in the Global Doodle Gems store, collecting colored drawings from different groups, making artist profiles, uploading the new GDG books to Create Space and the Amazon store, that we have been forgetting to promote ourselves….
So I have decided to do some promotion this way for both of us…. I will start with the books of Maria Wedel.
GDG “Twister Book Chill Pill” Volume 1
The cover was colored by Ellen Wolters, but I colored the whole book so that Maria could make this video:
Colorist: Pamela Ladd Colorist: Pauline Latchem
The Twister Book Chill Pill The Twister Book Chill Pill is a coloring book for all ages and levels, as hard as you make it or as easy as you wish, my personal stress relief and chill time, is when I sit and draw these twister drawings… choose your wave according to your mood … wishing you a colortastic time with it !
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GDG “Twister Book Chill Pill” Volume 2
Yes, this was also colored by Ellen Wolters, so the “look” is the same in this whole line of Twisterbooks….
Let’s take another ride in volume 2…
Twister Book Chill Pill 2: Global Doodle Gems Presents Twister Book Chill Pill 2 Adult Coloring Book The Twister Book Chill Pill 2 is the second in my series of de-stressing coloring books for all ages and levels, as hard as you make it or as easy as you wish, my personal stress relief and chill time, is when I sit and draw these twister drawings… choose your twister according to your mood … wishing you a twist’a’riffic time with it ! Click on pic to shop now !
The third book from Maria is a book that we worked on together… she asked me to color “some” eggs for her, and during that journey, I did some drawing in her designs…. 5 pages in fact, and then the idea came, that I did 5 pages of my own designs within her templates…. and then the book GDG ‘The Little Big Book of Egg Designs” was born… I am so proud…
Yes, I did color all the eggs on the cover…hundreds I colored, and it was no problem at all…I loved it to do…
This first link is one of my pages with the coloring work produced by colorist: Nancy van Acker
The next is a drawing from Maria, colored by me:
This next one is a drawing from Maria, filled in by me….and also colored by me
And if you would like to see all the pages, look at this eggthrough…
The Little Big Book of Egg Designs: 400 Eggs to color + A special freebie bonus 400 decorated eggs to color and have fun with in various sizes, extra bonus codes inside for biggie eggs ..So here is my little big book of Egg designs….remember it does not have to be Easter,to have fun times with eggs, Eggtime is any time !!!
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The next book in line is GDG “Twist’A’Dala”, a gorgeous new square book…I love it
Take a look inside with us…. you are gonna like this size!
And yes, I did some coloring, of course, because I am addicted to this kind of coloring…. I colored two drawings to start with, both are done with the Caran d’Ache Pablo, one of my oldest and favorite pencils…
Colorist: Isa Humeau Prigent Colorist: Shelly Pfeiffer
The Twist’A’Dala Chill Pill is a coloring book for all ages and levels, as hard as you make it or as easy as you wish, my personal stress relief and chill time, is when I sit and draw these twister drawings… choose your wave according to your mood … wishing you a colortastic time with it !
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I think you will all see, that we are a great team together…. and I love to be in a “team” with my friend Maria. She gave me a new goal in my life when I started to draw again… which led me to make my first individual book: GDG “Cat Gems”
The cover is wonderfully colored by my friend Peggy Sue Karunding, also an GDG Artist…
Team Taiwan and the colorists of team Dutchies did a great job coloring for me on this one…
Let’s get our paws on the inside of this book…
Cat Gems: Global Doodle Gems Presents Cat Gems by Johanna Ans Coloring book for all Cat lovers, fun, quirky, great for all levels, 42 designs and a surprise for you at the end ….The book “GDG Cat Gems” is an adult coloring book, but of course you can color with your kids too! Don’t let yourselves be held back by the detailed work, because you can color it anyway you want, it will become your art too! Have a lot of fun with all the colouring materials you have, because there is no holding back, the book is single side printed! Prrrrr,…prrrr….prrrr…., mrauw, have furry fun coloring these furry friends! Click on pic to shop now !
My next individual book is brand new, it’s a book where we draw and color together… and it will be a lot of fun to do! Let me introduce you to GDG “Twister-Gems-Doodle-Do-Book”
I am totally in love with the cover, so beautifully colored by colorist: Carla den Otter and Maria made it for me exactly how I had it in my mind….
Look at what we can make together…
We have a challenge on our fb group Global Doodle Gems; colorists are drawing and coloring for a review blog, because I can’t review my own book. So you will see the review later…
Twister-Gems-Doodle-do-book: Adult Coloring Book Step to finish…Draw along and Color (Volume 1) Adult coloring book with steps of the process of drawing. With some help from me to inspire you and with your imagination we will make art together. You can draw with my drawing as your example, copy my idea…or fill in whatever pops up in your mind…. I have given you lines… half designs and finished work…and after that…there will be a lot to color… your art… mine… and ours! Draw your colorful life with me!
Click on pic to shop now !
And yes, we have a new project together, it’s called Mephisto Coloring Therapy, Brightside & Darkside…. the first 2 books are finished now…. The proofs are in the publishers…. but we will give you a small sneak peak…
Front & Back cover “Mephisto Coloring Therapy” Brightside Volume 1
Back & Front cover “Mephisto Coloring Therapy” Darkside Volume 1
You will hear more about Mephisto Coloring Therapy very very soon…
You are also welcome on our official page Global Doodle Gems, to stay updated…..
GDG Individuals Isa Humeau Prigent “GraphiZen” Personal Review
When I look to this cover, I like to have a look inside this book, I like the shapes, it makes me curious right away….
Als ik naar de cover kijk, wil ik gelijk ook de binnenkant van het boek zien, ik hou van deze vormen, het maakt me gelijk nieuwsgierig….
I like fire, and I like to color like fire….that’s why I choosed this drawing as my first in this book. nice and warm….. I started with Caran d’Ache Pablo & Faber Castell Polychromos
Ik hou van vuur, ook van het inkleuren van vuur…. daarom heb ik als eerste gekozen voor deze plaat, warm maar ook liefdevol…. My fire is getting nice and warm… Let’s color the ring of hearts. I will use the Stabilo 88 Fineliners for that. It’s pretty detailled work which I like…
Mijn vuurtje is lekker warm….Laat ik de ring van harten maar gaan inkleuren nu. Ik ga gebruik maken van Stabilo 88. Het is nogal gedetailleerd, waar ik wel van hou…
The finishing touch is done with my fingers, grab the color from the Van Eyck Pastel crayon, right out of the box, and put it on the paper… what will go pretty fine in this book!
De finishing touch, met pastel krijt van Van Eyck, gewoon met je vinger over het krijt vanuit de doos, en lekker op dit heerlijke papier uitsmeren.
My second drawing that I choose, is my “peacefull coloring”. When I feel restless, I like to color something like this, a lot of details, small spaces… so I work with Stabilo 88 Fineliners.
Mijn tweede tekening die ik ga inkleuren is mijn “rustbrenger”. Wanneer ik rusteloos ben hou ik dus van dit soort platen om in te kleuren, fijn priegelwerk, veel details, kleine vakjes… ik werk dan ook met de Stabilo 88.
I feel great, coloring this drawing, almost a petty that the most of the work is already done… The rings I will color with Stabilo 68 Pen
Heerlijk gevoel, dit inkleuren, bijna jammer dat het meeste werk al weer gedaan is… Ik ga verder met de ringen, met Stabilo 68
I was in doubt, if I should leave the white spaces white or color them…and how should I color them. Something like gems, I grabbed my Cd’A Pablo and FC Polychromos again…
Ik was aan het twijfelen, of ik de witte vlakken zo zou laten of inkleuren…. en als ik zou inkleuren, hoe dan. Zoiets als stenen, ik heb er de Pablo en Polychromos weer bijgepakt…
And the third drawing should be just in between, not to detailled, but just fun to color. I colored with Bruynzeel Expression Color and a little bit of Van Eyck Pastel Crayon
En de derde tekening houd iets in het midden, niet te gedetailleerd, maar gewoon leuk om in te kleuren. Ik heb gekleurd met Bruynzeel Expression Color en een klein beetje Van Eyck Pastel
I had a great afternoon, coloring these drawings. I like the book,, but even more the paper. Everything works so fine in it…. of course I always use a protectionsheet in between…you never know.
Ik had een heerlijke kleurmiddag, met deze tekeningen inkleuren. Ik hou van het boek, maar zeker ook van het papier. Alles werkt zo fijn op dit papier… natuurlijk heb ik wel altijd een beschermblad ertussen liggen… je weet maar nooit
I made a small video too, to show you the whole work in progress from these 3 colorings…
Een kleine video om je het hele work inprogress proces te laten zien van deze 3 kleurplaten
I hope you liked my review. And if you want this book too, you can find it here
GDG Individuals Johanna Ans/ Twister-Gems-Doodle-Do-Book Volume 1 PREVIEW
I had a new idea…. a book to color, but also to draw with me…for the beginner, but of course also for the artist who will like to fill in my templates. But how can I find out, if this book will be a good book… I had to ask people who never draw before…or just started. I asked 3 dutchies to try out a chapter from my new book, soon be published by Global Doodle Gems… The only words they got from me….print the drawings out…look at them…and find your way, what you should do with this chapter!
Thanks Wendy Hofstee-Wiersema, thanks Nancy van Acker, Thanks Karin Speijer Kamp!
Ik had weer eens een idee… een boek om in te kleuren, maar ook om met me mee te tekenen… geschikt voor de beginner, maar ook voor de tekenaar die het leuk vind om mijn vormen in te tekenen. Maar hoe weet ik dan of dit boek een goed idee gaat zijn… ik ben op zoek gegaan naar mensen die niet eerder tekende of net zijn begonnen. En heb er drie gevonden die dat graag wilden doen. Ze hebben alle drie een hoofdstuk van mijn boek gekregen, het boek wat binnenkort word gepubliceerd door Global Doodle Gems. De enige aanwijzingen die ze kregen, print de platen uit, kijk er eens goed naar en bedenk wat JIJ dan gaat doen met deze platen!
I asked colorist Carla den Otter to color for my cover…the cover is not finished yet…it will be a surprise for me….and of course, what Maria will make of the colored pieces she is doing for me. But I know she is making gorgeous work of my drawings!
Ik heb colorist Carla den Otter gevraagd om platen in te kleuren voor mijn cover, en die zijn nog niet klaar… dat word een verrassing, zowel voor mij, want het hangt dan ook nog van Maria af, wat zij van de cover gaat maken voor mij.
I can also show you a small video…of the finished drawings in the book. There will be 35 sets, 122 pages in the book to draw and color. It was my Christmas spirit 2015, and I loved the spirit! The biggest book so far for GDG!
Ik kan jullie wel een impressie geven van de volledige tekeningen die in het boek staan. Er staan 35 sets op 122 bladzijdes in het boek om mee in te tekenen en in te kleuren. Het was mijn kerstgevoel 2015, vandaar de muziek in het filmpje, maar het gevoel was geweldig! Het dikste boek voor GDG tot nu toe
I will start with the first PREview from colorist: Wendy Hofstee-Wiersema
Eigenaar (Owner from) van Wendy Kleurt en haar blog is hier te vinden…
I got a message from Johanna Ans with the question if I like challenges. Of course! Not a shot is always a missing! Van Johanna Ans kreeg ik een berichtje met de vraag of ik van een uitdaging hield. Uiteraard! Niet geschoten is altijd mis is mijn motto!
The intention was to make a beginning artist acquainted with the drawing itself . Johanna was curious about the feeling it evoked in me and what I would make of it, and the most important question, is this book Twister-Gem -Doodle-Do-Book volume 1 also suitable for inexperienced artists and will it get people so far got to draw too with the help of her book .
De bedoeling was om een beginnend tekenaar kennis te laten maken met het tekenen zelf. Johanna was benieuwd naar het gevoel wat het bij me opriep en wat ik ervan zou maken en het belangrijkste, of haar nieuw uit te komen boek, Twister-Gems-Doodle-Do-Book- volume 1 ook geschikt was voor onervaren tekenaars en of ze mensen met haar boek zover kreeg om ook te gaan tekenen.
I got a set of 4 drawings / templates from Johanna Ans. 1 already finished, 2 WIP drawings, and a line template. I choosed the line template to make it “my art”. What an honour that she asked me, it was so much fun!
Ik kreeg van Johanna Ans 4 platen toegestuurd.. 1 al afgemaakt door Johanna zelf, 2 w.i.p (work in progress) platen en 1 lege plaat met alleen de lijnen. Deze laatste mocht ik ‘mijn’ ding van maken! Super leuk en wat een eer dat ze mij gevraagd heeft!
I descided to color the finished drawing from Johanna Ans. De plaat van Johanna Ans heb ik besloten in te kleuren.
For me it was a challenge to draw, so it would be really my drawing. I drawed 3 times before so it was a real challenge for me! I had 3 copies made, because I will be hard for myself sometimes, I am not sattisfied quick.
De uitdaging voor mij was het intekenen zodat ik er mijn ding van kon maken. Heb 3 keer eerder getekend dus het was echt een uitdaging om te doen. Uit voorzorg heb ik hem 3x geprint omdat ik voor mezelf nogal streng ben en ik dus niet snel tevreden ben 😉
I show you the WIP pictures of my drawing… Hier wat w.i.p foto’s die ik tussendoor heb gemaakt…
The journey of drawing was quit good for me: Making the drawing gave me a peacefull feeling, a feeling of proudness when the drawing grows. A feeling that I never had before! I colored my own drawing with Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer Aquarel
Het uiteindelijke resultaat leverde mij het volgende op: Tijdens het tekenen merkte ik dat het me echt tot rust bracht en ik een gevoel van trots kreeg naarmate de tekening vorderde.. Een apart gevoel wat ik nog niet eerder heb gehad.. Mijn eigen versie heb ik ingekleurd met mijn Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer aquarelpotloden..
A strange feeling, to color your own drawing! I draw with Sakura Micron Pen, which I got from Bruynzeel, to make a review about them. I love those pens. They are great for drawing but also for coloring. I use them often for coloring a black background!
Wat apart om je eigen tekening kleur te geven! Ik heb overigens gewerkt met de Micron sakura pennen die ik kreeg van Bruynzeel om te proberen en een recensie over te schrijven 😉 Wat een heerlijke pennen zijn dit.. Ze tekenen lekker maar ook het kleuren gaat er geweldig mee. Ik gebruik ze vaak om achtergronden zwart te maken..
And the last but not the least, I will say thank you to Johanna Ans, that I might do this for her. I sure will do more drawings in future, even if I think, that coloring fits better with me. I had a lot of fun to do this job for you, and if you need me in future…please ask! Als laatste wil ik Johanna Ans graag bedanken dat ik dit voor haar heb mogen doen! Ik ga zeker verder met het tekenen, al heb ik wel het gevoel dat ik het kleuren net iets leuker vind… 😉 Ik heb met plezier meegewerkt en mocht ik ooit nog iets voor je kunnen betekenen, vraag gerust!
Thanks a lot Wendy, you might be proud of what you did! Dank je Wendy, je mag trots zijn op wat je hebt gemaakt!
The second PREview is from colorist: Nancy van Acker.
she wrote this message about the book:
I started today, and choosed page 2. I did not know in the beginning how to start, which style do i want to do? It was not easy. I do have everything I need in my house, even books to learn Zentangle. I watched YouTube video’s, took my book and I started. It took me a long time!. But.. I finished my drawing, and than…think…think…shall I color or shade my drawing. I choosed shading. I will color your last page of the chapter, your finished drawing. Honest, I am not an artist, and it is not (yet) my thing to do, make drawings. I have to think to much, find examples, test on paper, for my feeling it cost me to much time. For the moment I reather paint and color. But the book might be fun for starters of zentangle or doodle technics. But the most important, I was satisfied with my end result, and if you would ask me if I would do it again, than it will be a yes! Because of doing “jobs” for you, I learn a lot and I see that my work will become better and better!
Het tweede PREview is van colorist: Nancy van Acker Dit is wat zij me schreef:
Ik ben er vandaag aan begonnen. , heb nummer twee genomen. Ik wist eerst niet hoe hier aan te beginnen, welke stijl wil ik? Het was in elk geval niet eenvoudig. Ik heb wel alles in huis , ook de boeken om Zentangle stijl te doen. Ok , gestart. Ben er wel lang mee bezig geweest, ik ben echt een leek wat Zentangle betreft. You tube filmpjes bekeken, boek er bij genomen, Eindelijk toch klaar gekregen . Nu , nadenken, kleuren of schaduwen ? Ik heb voor schaduwen gekozen. Ik ga de laatste , (uw volledige tekening) inkleuren. Eerlijk, ik ben geen echte tekenaar en het is niet echt mijn ding. Moet er te lang over nadenken, voorbeelden opzoeken, uitproberen op kladblaadje, ik steek er voor mijn gevoel te veel tijd in. Ik schilder en kleur liever. Maar misschien is het voor de zentangelaars onder ons wel leuk. Ik was wel tevreden over het eindresultaat, en als je me vraagt of ik dit nog eens voor je wil doen, dan zeg ik zeker ja! Door voor jou ‘werkjes’ te doen leer ik enorm veel bij en vind ik men werk ook beter en beter worden.
And of course the end result! I love it Nancy, be proud of what you made, because its pretty good for your first try-out! And you even did not doodle…but Zentangle, another possibillity for the book of course..thanks for the idea!
En natuurlijk het eindresultaat! Ik vind hem mooi Nancy, en ben trots op wat je hebt gemaakt, omdat het geheel niet slecht is voor een eerste keer! En je hebt niet eens gedoodled maar ge-zentangeld, nog een mogelijkheid om in dit boek te gebruiken. Bedankt voor het idee! The coloring of the finished drawing of my set. It felt like magic candy balls to color them… together with my own shading coloring of my drawing those two drawings are a Ying Yang to meEn dan de ingekleurde versie van de kant en klare tekening van mijn set. Het voelde alsof ik zo’n mgische toverbal aan het inkleuren was… samen met de geschaduwde tekening van mijzelf voelde het als een Ying Yang.
Greetings from Nancy van AckerThe third PREvieuw is from colorist: Karin Speijer Kamp
When Johanna Ans asked me last week: Karin, do you like a challenge to do? I said a loud yes I do! I challenge you to draw with me…is what she said…. Draw???? OMG Johanna, I can’t. Oh yes she said, it wil be fun for you as a beginner… beginner? I am even less than a beginner. And really, for that moment I felt sorry that I said yes… but, I did say yes… and she send me a set of 4 drawings. Johanna Ans is busy with een new book “Twister-Gems-Doodle-Do-Book” that will be published by Global Doodle Gems. Each chapter has 3-5 pages which you can color, or draw in it your self.
Het derde PREview is gemaakt door Karin Speijer Kamp Toen Johanna Ans mij vorige week vroeg : “Karin heb je zin in een uitdaging?” zei ik volmondig Ja hoor ! Het is de bedoeling dat je gaat tekenen zegt ze … tekenen ?? Omg Johanna dat kan ik niet ! Jawel zegt ze, juist leuk voor jou als beginner.. beginner? Ik ben nog minder dan dat ! En echt op dat moment had ik spijt dat ik ja had gezegd, maar ik heb nu eenmaal ja gezegd en zij stuurt mij 4 kleurplaten op. Johanna Ans is bezig met een nieuw kleurboek “Twister-Gems-Doodle-Do-Boek” wat uitgebracht wordt bij Global Doodle Gems. Elke hoofdstuk bestaat uit 3 tot 5 kleurplaten die je gewoon kan inkleuren of je kan hem zelf nog verder intekenen.
De first drawing is just line-art, the second more filled in, the third almost finished, and the fourth is a finished drawing. I was happy that I did not have ink anymore, so it gave me time before execution, because I was a little scared to start. And than I saw that Wendy Kleurt had already finished her part of the job, yup than I have to start too! I already bought myself some Staedtler Pigment Liners and a zentangle work book, so I picked them up…I had to search for them, hihi!
De eerste is een vrij kale plaat, de tweede is al iets meer ingetekend, de derde nog verder en de vierde is een kleurplaat die af is. Gelukkig was mijn cartridge op, dus even uitstel van executie, want ik zag er echt tegenop hoor. Toen ik zag dat Wendy Kleurt er al klaar mee was had ik wel zoiets, tja ik moet er toch echt aan beginnen. Ik had ooit al een setje Staedtler Pigment liners gekocht en een zentangle werkboek, dus die heb ik maar onder het stof vandaan gehaald.
The first drawing from the set of four / Dit is de eerste plaat uit de reeks van vier.
My first lines where a little bit shaky, but during the adventure I became more secure, some of the circels I did where even almost the same. Between drawing I did some coloring in my own drawing too, and that was a bit strange, because you see your work become alive. Not that I am really proud of what I did, but it became more fun to do. I did more and more to fill in my piece of art. (I also learned a lesson, wait till your ink is dry before you start to color)
Mijn eerste lijntjes waren best bibberig, maar ik merkte dat ik gaandeweg een iets vastere hand kreeg, sommige rondjes waren zelfs hetzelfde. Op een gegeven moment ben ik mijn tekeningetjes al in gaan kleuren, en dat is zo raar, je ziet het gelijk tot leven komen. Niet dat ik er heel erg trots op ben, maar ik vond het wel steeds leuker worden. Van lieverlee ben ik steeds meer toe gaan voegen. ( wel een les geleerd dat je even moet wachten met kleuren totdat de inkt goed is opgedroogd )
And this is what it became… my first drawing! En zo is hij uiteindelijk geworden … mijn eerste ingetekende kleurplaat
After that I started to color the finished drawing, the fourth in this case. As you all can see, a whole different page than what I made of it.
Vervolgens ben ik de plaat in gaan kleuren die al helemaal af is, dus in dit geval de vierde. Zoals jullie kunnen zien, is het totaal anders dan wat ik er van heb gemaakt.
After I started to draw, I liked it more and more to do, ok, I am not a star, but that’s what Johanna wuld make clear, that you don’t have to be an artist to have fun. I do like to go on with this, and hope that I can reach a higher level.
Toen ik eenmaal bezig was met “tekenen” vond ik het wel steeds leuker worden, oké, ik ben er geen ster in, maar dat is wat Johanna duidelijk wilde maken, je hoeft niet alles te kunnen om er plezier in te hebben. Ik wil er toch mee verder gaan, en eens kijken of ik in een iets hoger level terecht kan komen 😉
I want to say thank you to Johanna for her trust, and the boosts she gives me again and again.
Ik wil Johanna bedanken voor het vertrouwen in mij en de opstekers die zij mij telkens geeft.
How great it is to read that you where excited to do this…. a challenge to do something really new…. And I like the idea, that I can ask you again, to do it another time…and I will…because the second book is already finished too!
Hoe leuk is het om te lezen, dat jullie het spannend, maar wel leuk vonden…. de uitdaging aan nemen iets geheel nieuws te doen… en ik vind het helemaal top, dat ik weet dat ik jullie opnieuw kan en mag vragen, en dat zal ik doen ook, want deel 2 is ook klaar!
Thanks Carla, for coloring so hard for my cover, thanks Nancy, Karin & Wendy to do such a nice job for me!
And during the test from my colorists to do a chapter from this brand new GDG concept, Carla finished all four drawings to color, and Maria (Thank you so much for your time and job)made the time to make my idea of how it should look like, as a real cover… and I love it so much. Carla I am proud to present you, your work on my cover!
En gedurende de test van mijn kleurteam in deze, om een hoofdstuk in mijn boek te maken, heeft Carla alle 4 de platen ingekleurd, en Maria de tijd gemaakt mijn idee om te zetten, in de cover zoals ik die voor me zag… en ik vind hem geweldig! Carla, met trots show ik jou je werk op mijn cover!
I hope you like this idea of my new book. Soon it will be published by Global Doodle Gems
Ik hoop dat mijn idee van dit nieuwe boek jullie ook aanstaat. Het word binnenkort gepubliceerd door Global Doodle Gems
Johanna Ans
PS. Did you see how insecure Nancy was…and look what she did! I am so proud of her…because this is the proof for me, that is is also proud of her self…. “our” drawing is on her Mobile case!!!
Global Doodle Gems 